Aboriginal Art Lesson 3rd

Central Focus

Students will be introduced to Aboriginal art and the Aboriginal culture that created the aboriginal art style.  Students will be shown examples that are hung up in the classroom and some other examples on the power point presented to the students.  Students are going to produce their own aboriginal paintings based on designs seen in examples and what is discussed together as a class. 

Lesson Summary and Rational

The summary of the lesson is that students are going to view a power point about where Aboriginal art started, where is it found, and the people who created Aboriginal art.  The students will be able to see and discuss examples that are in the power point and in the classroom.

The rational is for the students to be introduced to a new culture and the style of artwork that the Aboriginal people created.  Students will also be asked if they have seen artwork that is related to Aboriginal art work.

Lesson Objectives

·      Students will be introduced about a new culture

·      Students will make their own version of Aboriginal art using the dot technique

·      Students will be able to verbally tell you what Aboriginal art is

State Standard

1PR Demonstrate skill and expression in the use of art techniques and processes.

1PE Observe and compare similar themes, subject matter and images in artworks from historical and contemporary eras.

Academic Language

·      Aboriginal Art- Is a technique of painting that is all dots and that certain colors have different meanings

o   Yellow

§  Sun

o   Brown

§  Soil

o   Red

§  Desert Sand

o   White

§  Clouds

o   Blue

§  Water

Pre-Assessment

·      Ask students what Aboriginal art is?

Formative Assessment

·      Walk around classroom and ask students what is their plan from their lunch menu

Summative Assessment

·      The final product from the individual student

Differentiated Learning Strategies

Accelerated Learners

The teacher will encourage students to add more dots to their background rather than painting background or combining both elements.

For students will difficulty:

Teachers can sit one on one to ask questions to encourage students to ask what they are having trouble with.  Also going over the assignment requirements one on one may help student not feel lost and be able to think with a clear mind. 

Lesson Resources

·      End of dole rod/paintbrushes/q-tips

·      Paint trays (Have a set of partners per paint tray)

·      Paint

o    Blue, Brown, Red, yellow, and white

·      Projector

·      Scrap paper

·      Brown Paper

·      PowerPoint

Procedure:

Part 1: Introduction

·      Ask students what is Aboriginal art?

·      Show Power Point

o   Slide 1

§  Ask students if they have ever heard of Aboriginal Art

o   Slide 2

§  Aboriginal art is looking over animals and the animals are flat

§  Aboriginal art used certain colors for different meanings

§  Aboriginal art was developed by the Aborigine people

o   Slide 3

§  Brown- Soil

§  Blue- Water

§  Red- desert sand

§  Yellow- sun

§  White- means clouds

o   Slide 4

§  Where is Australia on the world map

o   Slide 5-9

§  Encourage students what they see by images that you pull up for examples

Part II: Demonstration

·      Have paint colors laid out in a paint tray

o   Blue, Brown, yellow, red, white

·      Show students how to lightly sketch their animal

·      Show students how to do clean dots so the dots barley touch each other

·      Show students how they can have some brush strokes and combine dots in the background

Part III: Sketch

Have students do sloppy copies of the animal they would like to do and tell students to think about the negative space around their animal.  Tell students to refer to the examples for ideas of how to fill in the space.

Part IV: Applying

·      While students are getting started on projects walk around the classroom and ask students what they are doing.

·      Encourage students to think outside the box with applying some brush strokes with dots

·      Think about the symbols that their animal or art is 

IIssues that arose for me and to think about while teaching lesson next time.

1) Students insisted that everything must be dots and while student followed directions of how dots inspired the aboriginal art.  Encourage students to paint big spaces such as their animal or some of their outside design.

2) Encourage students to come up with designs that will help describe their animal besides filling the background with dots.

3) Emphasize to students that aboriginal art is ARIAL View!  The reference I told my students as if they are in a air plane and looking down on animals and people laying on the ground.

4) Some of my students ended up mixing colors to get colors that they wanted, instead of the traditional colors.  Instead of telling students no, I encouraged their creativity of the color choices that were made.

5) I did not force students to pick an animal from Australia  

Student Examples