kindergarten: 15 students between 5 and 6 yeas old | Merton Elementary (Montreal) | January to April 2010
LESSON PLAN
Duration:
two sessions of 30 to 45
minutes
Title:
Hot and Cool Sgraffito
Rationale:
This lesson serves to teach
students the warm and the cool colors of the color wheel through responding to
artwork and creating one of their own using brightly colored pastels. The
second part of the lesson teaches them the sgraffitto technique by allowing
them to scratch into a layer of paint covering their oil pastel drawing.
Competencies:
To perform
sensorimotor actions effectively in different contexts
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To broaden his/her repertoire of actions
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To experiment with gross and fine motor
movements
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To pay attention to his/her sensory and bodily
reactions
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To adjust his/her actions to the demand of the
environment
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To situate him/herself in the physical
environment and experiment with sequences of actions
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To use tools and materials for an explicit
purpose
To interact
harmoniously with others
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To cooperate with others
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To share play, materials, ideas and strategies
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To identify factors that help or hinder
cooperation
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To cooperate in activities and projects
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To participate in the group
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To express his/her ideas
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To listen to others
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To take part in formulating rules of social
conduct
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To take part in decision making and take
responsibility
To
communicate using the resources of language
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To understand a message
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To express his/her understanding of information
received
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To produce a message
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To organize his/her ideas
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To use appropriate vocabulary
To construct
his/her understanding of the world
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To exercise thinking in a variety of contexts
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To observe, explore and manipulate
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To organize information
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To express what he/she knows
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To seek, select and exchange information
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To describe his/her learnings
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To describe his/her method
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To define his/her learnings and strategies
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To apply his/her learnings
To complete
an activity or project
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To show tenacity in carrying out the project or
activity
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To use a variety of strategies
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To take time and space into account
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To use creativity
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To finish the activity or project
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To show satisfaction with the project or
activity
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To present his/her project
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To describe his/her method
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To explain the strategies and resources used
Learning
Objectives:
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The
students will learn to work together on a large collaborative piece
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The
students will learn hot and cool colors an apply them by choosing one of the
two to create an artwork
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The
students will learn the sgraffito technique by scratching into a layer of paint
above a previously made oil pastel drawing.
Art
Form: drawing
Technique:
scribbling, scratching, sgraffito
Materials,
Tools, Equipment:
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Large
surface (paper) on which to make the collaborative piece
·
Smaller
papers on which to make the individual pieces
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Oil
pastels
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Acrylic
paint
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Water
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Rollers
(one per table)
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Plates
(one per table)
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Various
objects with which to leave marks in the paint such as the ends of
paintbrushes, twigs and sticks, etc.
·
Smocks
Vocabulary: scratch, reveal, cover, sgraffitto, oily,
slippery, warm, cool
Artistic and/or Cultural
References:
A simple color wheel, and any artworks that contain hot and cool
colors. For example:
Renoir, P-A. (1866)
Bouquet of Spring Flowers.
Renoir, P.-A. (1910) Roses
in a Vase.
Renoir, P.-A. (1889) The
Piano Lesson.
Renoir, P.-A. (1880) Clichy
Place.
LESSON PHASES: Part 1
Motivation: Time
allotted: 10 minutes
Procedure: Take out the color wheel and ask the
students why it is called a color wheel. Talk about the primary colors and the
secondary colors by asking them why they are placed in that specific order on
the wheel. Talk about where the brown would go. Ask the students what colors
seem cold, or what colors they would see on something that is cold. Ask the
same for the warm colors. Explain the concept of warm and cool colors by
splitting the wheel in half (the line should separate the yellow and the
purple). Show the students the
motivational artworks one by one, asking them if they are cool or warm and why.
Compare two similar ones (for example, the two flower bouquets), asking them
which one is cooler or warmer and again, asking why. Explain the art activity.
Development: Time
allotted: 20 minutes
Procedure: Separate the class into 3 stations: one with
the motivational material for them to discover, one with the collaborative
artwork, and one for all the individual pieces. Ask the students to choose
either the warm OR the cool colors to draw on their individual works. Explain
that the original color of the surface (or paper) must not show through the
pastel. For the collaborative work, emphasize that no space belongs to one
person; that everyone must work together to fill out the entire surface.
Response: Time
allotted: 10 minutes
Procedure: During the activity, ask the students which
colors they are using, if they chose the warm or the cool colors, etc. Clean up
before doing the post-activity response. After the activity, gather the
students and ask them if they enjoyed their experience and why. Review the
terms hot and cool by showing them the motivational artworks once again.
Clean-up: Time
allotted: 5 minutes
Procedure: put away all pastels and papers. Clean
hands and wipe tables with a damp cloth.
LESSON PHASES: Part 2
Preparation: create a sample to determine the amount of
water to dilute the acrylic in. It should be thin enough to have lost most of
its plasticity, but thick enough to still be opaque. Bring this sample to the
students for the motivation.
Motivation: Time
allotted: 10 minutes
Procedure: Review the last part of the lesson,
including the terms warm and cool. Pass around your sample and ask the students
to scratch into it to make a mark. Ask them to describe what happens. Explain
the concept of Sgraffito and how it is a technique that uses scratching to
reveal the color underneath. Ask if they know how this is possible. Remind them
of the slipperiness of the pastels. Emphasize the word ‘oil’ in front of oil
pastel means it has oil and that oil is slippery. Explain the art-making
process of the lesson.
Development: Time
allotted: 20 minutes
Procedure: With the students, roll a thin layer of
diluted acrylic onto the large collaborative piece. Explain that it will be
left to dry before the students can scratch into it, but that their individual
pieces can be scratched in while still wet so they can feel the difference.
Leave one roller and a plate with some paint out for every table of students to
roll the acrylic onto their oil pastel drawings. Leave a few tools per table to
scratch into the paint. Make sure they put on their smocks. When the students
are finished using the sgraffito technique on their individual pieces, they may
work on the larger piece after having washed their hands. If the paint is completely
dry, they may take off their smocks as well.
Response: Time
allotted: 10 minutes
Procedure: Clean up before doing the final response.
Ask the children which sgraffito technique they preferred (scratching in wet or
in dry) and why. Ask them what they liked best about this project and why. Review
the reason they are able to scratch into the paint to let the under-layer show
through, emphasizing the slipperiness of the oil pastels underneath.
Clean-up: Time
allotted: 5 minutes
Procedure: clean all hands, surfaces and tools, and
exhibit work.
