Georgia O'Keefe Flowers

Central Focus

The central focus of the lesson is for students to be introduced to Georgia O’Keefe.  When being introduced to Georgia O’Keef, students will learn about scale and how scale affects a piece of art.

Lesson Rational and Summary

The lesson rational is for students to learn about different scales that an object can be in a piece of art.  By introducing students to Georgia O’Keefe and her large-scale flower paintings that she produced will help students learn about scale

The lesson summary is that students will be introduced to Georgia O’Keefe through a power point presentation.  Within the presentation the students will learn some facts about O’Keefe such as where she grew up and died, fun facts, and her paintings.  With in the presentation, the teacher will be conduction conservation with students to break down the paintings presented in the power point. 

Students will produce an O’Keefe up close scale of something found in nature such as flowers, rocks, leaves, and more.  Students will use oil pastel and watercolor to produce their creation.

Lesson Objectives and State Content Standard Statement/Connection

Lesson Objectives

·      Students will be introduced to the artist Georgia O’Keefe

·      Students will be Pointing out what states that O’Keefe was born and died in

·      Students will be discussing what they see O’Keefe’s paintings

o   Texture

o   Overlapping

o   Color

·      Students will be introduced to the vocabulary word Scale

·      Students will produce a large scale creation of something found in nature

Content Standard

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

Academic Language

Scale- a size of the object in the piece of art and how it translates in the piece of art

Instructional Language

Pre-Assessment

·      Ask students if they have ever heard of Georgia O’Keefe

·      Ask students if (Georgia O’Keefe Poster) looks familiar

Formative Assessment

·      As lesson is being taught, having students define what past vocabulary they use to help everyone to remember what they have learned. 

Summative Assessment

·      Students will produce a Georgia O’Keefe creation using large scale and natural elements like her paintings

Differentiated Learners

Advanced Learners

Advanced Learners will be encouraged to use variation in composition, texture, and advanced the concept that they are going. 

Slow Learners

The teacher will keep an eye on slow learners and help them with any questions and be encouraged to keep trying because they are all ready doing awesome.

Lesson Resources

·      Georgia O’Keefe Power Point

·      Water color paper

·      Water colors

·      Oil pastels

·      Pencils

·      Erasers

·      Water cups

·      Paintbrushes

Procedure

Part 1: Introduction

·      Students will be seated in their seats (power point will be up)

·      Ask students if they have ever heard of Georgia O’Keefe

o   Show students the examples of Georgia O’Keefe

§  Examples hung in classroom

Part 2: Power Point

·      Slide 1

o   Has the birth and death place of Georgia O’Keefe

§  Have students focus on shapes of the states and repeat the states

·      Slide 2

o   Have students identify Wisconsin and New Mexico on a state map

·      Slide 3

o   Fun Facts about Georgia O’Keefe

§  Georgia likes to paint flowers, landscapes, animal bones, and what is natural

§  O’Keefe was the 2 out of 7 kids

·      Slide 4

o   Purple Flower Painting

§  Have students talk about what they see

·      Examples

o   Color, Overlapping, size, and texture

o   Have students talk about what they see

·      Slide 5

o   Black and White Rose

§  Have students talk about what they see

§  Start to talk about how close the composition of the rose is

·      Start to introduce scale

·      Slide 6

o   Introduce scale

§  Have students talk about what they see and how it’s different compared to the other paintings

·      Slide 7

o   Vocabulary word Scale

§  How the size of the object in a painting affects the piece of art

Part 3: Learn, Explore, And Demonstrate

·      When power point is done have students gather around the second table

o   Have prepared

§  Oil pastel colors

§  Paint brushes

§  Cup of water

§  Water color paper

·      Show students the materials that they will need for the project

·      Ask students what they saw in examples

o   Remind students about scale

·      Show students how they are using the oil pastel to create out line of the natural object

·      Show students how to create texture with oil pastel

o   Darting the oil pastel

o   Blending colors

·      Show students how to use the water colors

o   Blending the colors of the oil pastels to create new textures

·      Have students fill up the space of the paper with other close up objects if close scale object does not fill space

·      Encourage students to create a background

·      Have students go back to their seats to get started

Student Examples

Issues with this lesson

1) Encourage students not to copy the teacher example!  I had a number of students do exactly the demonstration that I did for the class

2) Emphasize to students to use the whole paper instead of making their flowers or items from nature extra small