UDL LESSON PLAN

Art       Grade 9-12       Days: 14      

UNIT/LESSON ● Chance Project- Inspiration

CONTENT ● Students will be able to gather ideas and begin forming connections to
OBJECTIVE(S) the prompt.
COMMON CORE ● Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions
STANDARD for creating art and design that can affect social change
FOCUS/ KEY ● What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks?
QUESTIONS
BARRIERS TO ● Students might need help taking the leap and getting started if they
LEARNING believe in their art-making abilities.
● If students feel like they can not do it, they will put in little effort,
making them feel worse if they do not like the
outcome.
PLANNING WITH Multiple Means of ● Students may have physical copies of
UDL Representation the slideshow to flip through as they
work or they may pull it up in their
Google Classroom on their personal
computers.

Multiple Means of Action ● Students are free to work in their

and Expression preferred medium of choice, this
allows them to feel comfortable with
their tools or gives them the
opportunity to try something new.
● students will also be allowed to re-roll
for titles so they may have multiple
choices to choose from as to not feel
discouraged from working.
Multiple Means of ● If students wish the class could take
Engagement extra time before the critique to guess
the titles of each other's work. titles
would be gathered in a hat and each
student would take a turn pulling a title
name and guessing where it belongs.
READING/ BEFORE:
VOCABULARY ● Element
● line
● shape
● hue
● value
● texture
● pattern
● form
DURING:
● Design
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● movement
● balance
● emphasis
● unity
● proportion
● variety

ASSESSMENT Summative: Artist's statement

Formative: In-progress critique, final critique
MATERIALS ● Students' choice of materials. (charcoal, acrylic, pastels, etc.)
● Chance design Slideshow
● Chance design Rubric
● PLM Chance Design
● Student laptops
● notebook
● sketchbook

LEARNING STRATEGIES Day 1

WARM UP (5 min) ● Class will begin with students settling in their seats. They will have time to
get out the materials they will need for the day, For today they will only
need a notebook/Sketchbook and a laptop.
INTRODUCTION/ ● The class will begin with a slide show explaining the project. The
MOTIVATION/ standards and the key questions for the project will be shared along with
Prior Knowledge the list of title segments for the project.
WHOLE CLASS ● Students will watch a short video on Ai Weiwei to inspire them.
ACTIVITY (20 ● After students will take some time to roll dice for their titles.
min)
GUIDED & ● Students will begin to research the keywords from their titles, working on
INDEPENDENT paper they will build mind maps they can use as a reference when making
PRACTICE WITH their thumbnail sketches.
UDL ● Once the mindmap is completed to the best of their abilities they can start
making 3-5 thumbnail sketches to plan out their finished piece.

CLOSURE/ ● Students will need to hand in what they have started for thumbnail
EXIT PASS/ sketches.
(5min)

LEARNING STRATEGIES Day 2

WARM UP (5 min) ● Class will begin with students settling in their seats. They will have time to
get out the materials they will need for the day, For today they will only
need a notebook/Sketchbook and a laptop.
INTRODUCTION/ ● The class will begin with a slide show showing what they should focus on
MOTIVATION/ today.
Prior Knowledge
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WHOLE CLASS ● Students can take time to finish their research for their words.
ACTIVITY (20
min)
GUIDED & ● Students will take today to finish their thumbnail sketches and get started
INDEPENDENT on sketching out their final piece. If there is time they can start picking out
PRACTICE WITH the materials that they want to use.
UDL

CLOSURE/ ● Students will need to hand in their finished thumbnail sketches.

EXIT PASS/
(5min)

LEARNING STRATEGIES Day 3

WARM UP (5 min) ● Class will begin with students settling in their seats. They will have time to
get out the materials they will need for the day, For today they will only
need a notebook/Sketchbook and a laptop.
INTRODUCTION/ ● The class will begin with a slide show showing what they should focus on
MOTIVATION/ today.
Prior Knowledge
WHOLE CLASS ● Students can take time to finish their thumbnail sketches if they have not
ACTIVITY (20 been done yet.
min)
GUIDED & ● Students will take today to start their chance pieces. The medium is up to
INDEPENDENT the artist but the general size should stay around 18x24.
PRACTICE WITH
UDL

CLOSURE/ ● Students must hand in their finished thumbnail sketches.

EXIT PASS/
(5min)

LEARNING STRATEGIES Day 4,5,6

WARM UP (5 min) ● Class will begin with students settling in their seats. They will have time to
get out the materials they will need for the day, For today they will only
need a notebook/Sketchbook and a laptop.
INTRODUCTION/ ● The class will begin with a slide show showing what they should focus on
MOTIVATION/ today.
Prior Knowledge

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GUIDED & ● Students will take today to continue working on their chance pieces. The
INDEPENDENT medium is up to the artist but the general size should stay around 18x24.
PRACTICE WITH ● The teacher should float around the room offering advice and answering
UDL questions to students in need.
●

CLOSURE/ ● Students must hand in their finished thumbnail sketches.

EXIT PASS/
(5min)

LEARNING STRATEGIES Day 7

WARM UP (5 min) ● Class will begin with students setting their in-progress work up on the
board for a midway critique. They should also put the title of their piece
up next to the work.
INTRODUCTION/ ● The class will begin with a slide show showing what they should focus on
MOTIVATION/ today.
Prior Knowledge
WHOLE CLASS 1. Students will take 5-10 minutes to observe each other work up close and
ACTIVITY (40 can take this time to think of questions or compliments for each other.
min) 2. After students have had time to process each other's work the critique may
begin.
3. A student offers to go first or is chosen at random. They will start by
stating whose work they are going to be speaking about. they will state
something that they think works positively in the other students' work or
they may ask the artist a question. Questions and observations should
relate back to the information shared at the beginning of class.
4. The artist who just had their work critiqued will be the next to go and may
choose another student's work to talk about. These steps will repeat until
all students' work has been discussed.
5. After each artwork has been critiqued any leftover comments and
questions may be presented by students.
GUIDED & ● Students can write down the feedback that they received to keep in mind
INDEPENDENT as they continue working.
PRACTICE WITH ● Moving forward into the project students should be encouraged to work
UDL together asking for advice not only from the teacher but from each other as
well. They may finish the rest of class by going back to working on their
art.
● Students should use the rest of class time to fill out a PLM or personal
learning matrix. This short questionnaire will help teachers to gather a
better idea of how students are currently viewing themselves as artists and
learners.
CLOSURE/ ● Students must hand in their notes from the critique.
EXIT PASS/
(5min)

LEARNING STRATEGIES Day 8,9

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WARM UP (5 min) ● Class will begin with students settling in their seats. They will have time to
get out the materials they will need for the day, For today they will only
need a notebook/Sketchbook and a laptop.
INTRODUCTION/ ● The class will begin with a slide show showing what they should focus on
MOTIVATION/ today.
Prior Knowledge
GUIDED & ● Students will take today to continue working on their chance pieces. The
INDEPENDENT medium is up to the artist but the general size should stay around 18x24.
PRACTICE WITH ● The teacher should float around the room offering advice and answering
UDL questions to students in need.

CLOSURE/ ● Students must hand in their finished thumbnail sketches.

EXIT PASS/
(5min)

LEARNING STRATEGIES Day 10

WARM UP (5 min) ● Class will begin with students setting their in-progress work up on the
board for a midway critique. They should also put the title of their piece
up next to the work.
INTRODUCTION/ ● The class will begin with a slide show showing what they should focus on
MOTIVATION/ today.
Prior Knowledge
WHOLE CLASS 6. Students will take 5-10 minutes to observe each other work up close and
ACTIVITY (40 can take this time to think of questions or compliments for each other.
min) 7. After students have had time to process each other's work the critique may
begin.
8. A student offers to go first or is chosen at random. They will start by
stating whose work they are going to be speaking about. they will state
something that they think works positively in the other students' work and
ask the artist a question. Questions and observations should relate back to
the information shared at the beginning of class.
9. The artist who just had their work critiqued will be the next to go and may
choose another student's work to talk about. These steps will repeat until
all students' work has been discussed.
10. After each artwork has been critiqued any leftover comments and
questions may be presented by students.
GUIDED & ● If there is time and students would like to they may go back to their
INDEPENDENT artwork and make any last-minute touch-ups.
PRACTICE WITH ● Students should then use the remaining time to work on writing a short
UDL artist statement about their work.

CLOSURE/ ● Students must hand in their notes from the critique.

EXIT PASS/
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