Name: Ashleigh Bardeleben, Shay Moorman

Daily Lesson Plan

Lesson Title: Scratch Art Mandalas Day 1 Grade Level: 2nd

Sequence and Scope Statements:

The lesson that came before this was fashion glasses. That past lesson can help the students start to
understand more about balance and shape. But also, to understand unity.

Concept and Skills:

VA:Cr1.2.2a: Identity colors that represent personal identity
VA:Cr2.1.2a: Blend colors using oil pastels

Academic Language:
Balance: Symmetry
Unity: allowing each individual element to coexist with one another to form an aesthetically
pleasing design

Purpose of Lesson:
The purpose of this lesson is to learn about reductive art and how it works, and to learn about color
blending with oil pastels

Learning Objective:
Given a presentation on reductive art, as well as plates, oil pastels, black paint, and brushes
the students will color the plate with oil pastels to successfully smoothly blend oil pastels
with a range of colors that represent them.

Assessment Criteria:
Technical Skill: blending oil pastels
Formal Skill: color
Concept Skill: selection of colors that represent them

Teaching Resources Needed to Support the Lesson:

Presentation about the project and reductive art, teacher example, demo steps
Art Materials Necessary for the Lesson:
Paper plates, oil pastels, sponge brushes, black tempera paint, palettes, paper for underneath their
projects

Planning for Differentiation:

Early finishers: will get their glasses so that they can try and finish the glasses from the first project
Slow workers: we can tell them that it is okay if they don’t get to finish their glasses and that they can
finish at a later date.

Teacher Directed Activities: Student Activities:

Introduction:
- Get the attention of the kids by asking
them some questions and saying hello to
the class.
- At this point, the presentation will be up,
and we can continue with the first slide
which shows something things that they
may have done.
- I will be in front of the smart board that is
in the classroom.
- Have you ever done scratch art before?
- In what ways is scratch art/reductive art
part of our everyday lives?
Introduction:
- Students will look at the board and be
prepared and focused on the lesson at
hand.
- I expect the kids would like to continue
talking on the questions and answering
them to the best of their ability.
- They will be sitting at their desks ready to
go and listen to the presentation but also
participate in answering questions (if
they want to).

Development:
- The activity for the day is to color the
plate with oil pastels and then cover it
with black paint.
- I will explain the activity to the kids
through the presentation and the steps
that are provided in the presentation.
- The steps and the demo of showing the
kids what to do will be enough for the
kids to understand what they are doing
for the day.
- As the steps of the demo are going on,
co-teachers and observing teachers will
start getting things ready to hand out.
- What colors will you choose to color the
plate?
Development:
- The students will answer the questions
asked to the best of their ability.
- They will need a large piece of paper to
put on their desks.
- They will also need a set of oil pastels at
the cluster of desks.
- They will need a palette in the in the
middle of the cluster of desks that has
black paint in them with sponge brushes.
 - What colors represent you?

Conclusion:
- Cleanup: everyone will help with cleanup
whether that be wiping down desks and
or putting away the oil pastels that were
left out.
- After cleaning up or during cleanup we
can talk about how the blending works
and or how the technique they used to
cover the plate.
- What do you think will happen when we
scratch at the surface next time?
- Why do you think we covered the plate
fully with oil pastel instead of leaving
small white spaces.
Conclusion:
- The students will pick up their plate with
two hands and put it into the drying rack.
(Call them up in groups so not everyone
is crowding the rack.)
- As the plates are drying, they will then
start to cleanup. (Pieces of paper that
was underneath their plate will be
thrown away/recycled, the palettes will
be brought up to the front to be washed
later by the teachers as well as the
brushes.)

Critical Comments and Reflections:

- For this lesson, the students really enjoyed being able to use a paper plate for something else
rather than eating. I loved seeing all of their personalities and their ability to understand and
comprehend come out.
- All the students wanted to interact and wanted to showcase their colors, when I told them it
was time to cover them up, it took a couple minutes of convincing that they were going to see
the colors they put on their plate again after we scratch them.