Abstract Design
This is a lesson for all levels but different outcomes for each grade level.


Robin Addison Gentian Elementary Muscogee [email protected] Georgia Learning Connections


Primary Learning Outcomes
Students will learn abstract design through using familiar symbols of lines and shapes to create an abstract design.

Additional Learning Outcomes
Students will also use alternating colors to enhance this design. Colors selected (primary, secondary, intermediate, cool, warm, complementary, triadic or analogous colors) will be the focus of students' design.


Assessed QCC Standards:

Grade: 1
Fine Arts
Visual Arts
1
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Mixes primary colors to create secondary colors.

2
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Creates artworks (e.g., drawings, paintings, pottery, sculptures, prints, fiber arts, and mixed media art ) emphasizing one or more art elements (e.g., color, line, shape, form, texture) and the principle of repetition (pattern).

5
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of art materials and tools.

7
Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding
Standard: Recognizes and differentiates between primary and secondary colors.

8
Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding
Standard: Identifies lines as outlines or edges of shapes and forms.

Grade: 2
Fine Arts
1
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Mixes white with colors to create tints and black with colors to create shades (values).

3
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Creates artworks (drawings, paintings, pottery, sculptures, prints, fiber arts, and mixed media arts) emphasizing one or more of the arts elements, e.g., warm and cool colors, line, shape, form, texture, value, and the principles of movement, rhythm, repetition (pattern), and spatial techniques (overlapping, size placement of shapes).

5
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of materials and tools.

8
Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding
Standard: Describes red, yellow, and orange as warm colors and green, blue, and violet as cool colors.

9
Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding
Standard: Recognizes tints and shades in artworks.

10
Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding
Standard: Differentiates horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines.

Grade: 3
Fine Arts
2
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Produces art in each of the following art areas: drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and crafts

6
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of art materials and tools.

8
Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding
Standard: Describes intermediate colors as red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, and red-violet.

9
Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding
Standard: Recognizes value as the lightness and darkness of a color.

Grade: 4
Fine Arts
1
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Creates artworks using the following properties of colors (e.g., hue, intensity, and value).

2
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Creates artworks using the following color theories (e.g., complementary and neutral).

8
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of materials and tools.

10
Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding
Standard: Identifies and discusses the properties of color (e.g., hue, intensity, and value).

11
Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding
Standard: Identifies and discusses color schemes (e.g., complementary and neutrals).

13
Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding
Standard: Explains how space and shapes can be positive and negative in a composition.

Grade: 5
Fine Arts
3
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Creates artworks in the areas of drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, pottery, fiber arts, mixed media, and digital images. (See Introduction: Matrix.)

5
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of art materials and tools.

7
Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding
Standard: Recognizes color relationships (e.g., complementary, analogous, and monochromatic).

Grade: K
Fine Arts
2
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Creates artworks - drawings, painting, pottery, sculptures, prints, fiber arts, and mixed media - emphasizing one or more art elements (e.g., color, line, shape, form, texture, and pattern).

4
Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of art materials and tools.

6
Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding
Standard: Names and identifies colors, such as red, yellow, blue, green, orange, violet, black, brown, white, and gray (pigment colors).

7
Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding
Standard: Points out and describes lines, as thick, thin, straight, and broken.

8
Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding
Standard: Recognizes and names shapes, such as circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and organic (free-form).


Procedures/Activities


Step:  1 Duration: 10-15 minutes.
Discuss color wheel with students and show the various color combinations that can be made. The higher the grade level the more intense the level of color levels will be emphasized. Examples will be shown as well as demonstrations.

Step:  2 Duration: 10-20 minutes
Students will begin making their drawing design. They will then use a grid overlay drawn over it to guide them in the design. When they are ready they may begin the color process.

Step:  3 Duration: 30-45 minutes.
Students will begin using their color selection to begin finishing their design. They may color in paint using some simple tips of not putting wet paint next to wet paint and the same color next to the same color. Some grade levels may need to do this in crayon first.

Step:  4 Duration: 30-45 minutes
Students will complete their coloring design.




Materials and Equipment
8.5" white paper assorted paint colors (water colors 4 & 5, tempera K-3) brushes, water cups, water, pencils, erasers, paper towels


Standards (Local and/or National)

Total Duration
3 class periods

Technology Connection



Assessment
Teacher observation
Extension
Remediation
Accommodation
For students with exceptional needs, what changes can be made in instruction and teaching delivery to enhance student participation and learning? Each area below is a direct link to general classroom accommodations.

Non-readers     Physical Impairments     Sensory Impairments     Attention/Behavior     Gifted

Each disability below is a direct link to general classroom accommodations specific for that disability.

    Autism
    Deaf - Blind
    Deaf/Hard of Hearing
    Emotional and Behavioral Disorder
    Mild Intellectual Disability
    Orthopedic Impairment
    Other Health Impairments:
        Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
        Tourette Syndrome
    Significant Development Delay
    Specific Learning Disability
    Speech - Language Impairment
    Traumatic Brain Injury
    Visual Impairment

Modification
For students with significant disabilities, what changes can be made in instruction and teaching delivery to allow students to participate in classroom instruction while working on IEP objectives and off grade level QCC standards. Below are suggested modifications correlated to the procedures of this lesson plan.







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