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Shapes to Represent Objects

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Title:

 Shapes to Represent Objects

URL:

 http://artsedwashington.org/curriculum/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Second-Grade-Lesson-3.pdf

Content Source:

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ArtsEd Washington
Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Students will name basic shapes seen in art and in tools. They will choose a tool and draw and connect shapes to form the object.  Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF. 

Content Standard(s):
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 2
Visual Arts
3) Extend skills by individually following sequential steps to create works of art on subjects that are real or imaginary.

Example: Use the book A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle.
Create a real or imagined home.

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Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Process Components: Investigate, Plan, Make
Essential Questions:
EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.
EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
  • Principles of design
    • Balance
  • Brainstorming
  • Composition
  • Concepts
  • Characteristic
  • Elements of art
    • Space
    • Value
  • Expressive properties
  • Foreground
  • Middle ground
  • Neutral colors
  • Resist
Skill Examples:
  • Create two-dimensional artworks such as drawing or painting by using a variety of media.
  • Use the book, The Goat in the Rug by Charles L.
    • Blood & Martin Link to learn about weaving.
  • Use clay or pipe cleaners to create small animal sculptures.
  • Work in groups to brainstorm ideas for a collaborative art project.
  • Use a book about clay, When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor to study Native Americans and their traditions.
  • Use the book A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle to explore collage techniques.
  • Create a real or imagined home using two-and-three-dimensional media.
  • Learn how to properly use and store brushes, close glue bottles and marker tops.
  • Use found objects such as leaves, rocks, paper tubes, egg cartons, etc.
    • to create artworks.
  • Use the book A Day with No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch to explore different colors and values.
  • Create a landscape showing depth by placing the foreground, middle ground and background in their correct positions.
Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 2
25. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

a. Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes.

Examples: a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces
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Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
  • recognize shapes with specified attributes.
  • draw shapes having specified attributes.
  • determine shapes based on their attributes.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Attributes
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • defining characteristics of basic shapes (triangles, rectangles, squares, circles).
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
  • recognize shapes with specified attributes.
  • draw shapes having specified attributes.
  • determine shapes based on their attributes.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • shapes may be sorted by many sets of attributes, but their geometric classification is based on certain defining attributes.
Diverse Learning Needs:
Essential Skills:
Learning Objectives:
M.2.25.1: Define side, angle, face, closed, and open.
M.2.25.2: Use vocabulary related to shape attributes.
Examples: sides, angles, face, closed, open.
M.2.25.3: Trace shapes.
M.2.25.4: Sort triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
M.2.25.5: Explore triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

Prior Knowledge Skills:
  • Notice same/different and some/all.
  • Begin to name and match sizes and shapes.
  • Enjoy playing with all kinds of objects.
  • Point to matching or similar objects.
  • Understand that words can label sameness and differences.
  • Sort objects on the basis of shape or color.
  • Understand and point to a triangle, a circle, a square and rectangle.
  • Understand the concept of same shape and size.
  • Understand that some have more, and some have less.
  • Sort objects on the basis of shape.
  • Sort a variety of objects in a group that have one thing in common.
  • Recognize and sort familiar objects with the same color, shape, or size.
  • Understand and point to a triangle, a circle, a square and rectangle.
  • Understand a line and a point, angle.
  • Count 1-6 for sides.
  • Understand the different shapes.
  • Draw basic shapes.
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
M.AAS.2.25 Using vocalization, sign language, augmentative communication, or assistive technology, identify two-dimensional shapes (limited to square, circle, triangle, and rectangle).
Tags: draw, shapes, tools
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