Unit Title: Human's Interaction with NatureUnit Big Idea: Humans and NatureUnit DescriptionThe unit plan for humans and nature is designed to encourage student interaction, engagement, and exploration of their surrounding environment. The selected artworks depict how humans affect nature and how nature counteracts with humans. The projects are designed to encourage students to embrace the physical characteristics of the world around them and to emphasize the connection that we all share as humans with one another and with our environment. The assessment is used to gauge students’ learning, involvement, and to explore essential questions. The unit theme shared by all of lesson plans is human interactions with nature. Essential Questions
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StandardsAnchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret work for presentation. Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. Project 1: Artists' Evaluation of Humans' Impact on NatureProject DescriptionIn this project, students will observe several artworks about humans and nature. Students will interpret each artwork and choose one of them to write a narrative or to make a simple poster. Essential Questions
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Lesson SequenceDay 1 Introduction to the art room, unit plan, procedures, and classroom routines. Day 2-5 VTS: the selected artworks, and make notes. Day 6-8 Groups discuss the questions listed in the question sheet handed out to students, and make notes. Day 9-10 A: Choose one of the artworks that student likes, using the notes and then write a creative story about what’s happening in the image. B: Make a simple poster (like Aviva Rahmani, Oil and Water), which can display the relationship between humans and nature. It can be contemporary social issues, for instance, global warming. Day 11-12 Students share their story about the image that they chose, or share the poster they have made, simultaneously, sharing their ideas, feelings about human’s interactions with nature. Project 2: Outdoor Scenes of Your CommunityProject DescriptionIn this project, students will know the vocabulary term realism, and appreciate and interpret Andrew Wyeth’s artworks. Also, students will learn some basic landscape photography skills to take pictures in their own community. The picture will be used as a frame and students can super-impose the image of their community onto the frame using chalk pencils. Essential Questions
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Lesson SequenceDay 13 Introduction to the realist painter, Andrew Wyeth, working predominantly in a regionalist style. Vocabulary term: realism. Day 14-18 Groups discuss the questions in question-sheet handed out to students, and make notes. Day 19-20 Work with a partner and create a list of ideas for themes about their own outdoor scene of human interacting in nature. Day 21 Learn some scenery photography skills by using iPad. Homework: photograph scenes of their community, based on a memory of their own childhood. Day 22 Share the pictures they have taken with partners, and pick one of them as their frame. Interpret each other’s selected picture. Day 23 Learn some basic drawing skills by using chalk pencils Day 24-28 Start to create their own outdoor scene of human interaction with nature by using chalk pencil. Day 29-30 Scan the artworks and print them out to make holiday cards, and write down the reflection on investigating outdoor scenes of human interaction with nature. Project 3: Living in Harmony with NatureProject DescriptionIn this project, students will learn vocabulary terms surrealism and cyanotype printing process. Meanwhile, they will create artworks which display how humans live in harmony with nature in a surreal way by using PicsArt app. In the end, they will create documentation videos which express what and how they have learned through the processes. Essential Questions
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Lesson SequenceDay 31 Introduction to the contemporary artist, Annija Veldre, working on a way of self-expression with nature. Vocabulary term: Surrealism. Day 32-33 VTS: Annija Veldre’s artworks, and make notes. Day 34 Learn some portrait photography skills by using iPad. Day 35 Outdoor activity: practice photography skills, thinking about how humans live in harmony with nature. Day 36-37 Outdoor activity: background shooting. Day 38-39 Outdoor activity: model shooting. (Look for your classmates as your model, and then exchange Day 40 Have your idea in mind and select the materials you need for creating a surreal image. Simultaneously, choose the background photo and model photo that you like. Day 41-43 Learning how to play with PicsArt app and then create your own surreal image by using PicsArt app. Day 44 Introduction to the Cyanotype printing. Day 45 Demonstrate and display how to print Cyanotype photos on fabric or paper. Day 46-50 Cyanotype printing session. Day 51-52 Leaning how to use iMovie app to clip the footage and record the voice-over. Day 53-56 Create documentation videos which document their thinking and learning process by using the iMovie app. Day 57-58 Use the notes and write down the voice-over in terms of your thinking process, and then make voice-over, adding into the sequence. Finally, generate the video. Day 59 Leaning how to upload the video to YOUTUBE and how to generate and read the QR Code. Finally, frame your artwork which will be displayed in the classroom. Day 60 Art Show (exhibition) Classroom Management
Exemplars in ProgressCyanotype on FabricCyanotype on WaterpaperLesson PrototypeThe Art Assignment VideoUnit Plan Word Document and PowerPoint Presentation![]()
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