Hanna Johnson

Senior Project Advisor

Margot Myers

Document Type

Project

Publication Date

Fall 2022

Keywords

Education, Curriculum Design, Visual Arts, Elementary

Abstract

With the growing push for increased time spent on STEM in classrooms, visual arts often fall to the wayside. Even rarer is the opportunity to practice teaching visual art lessons in a dedicated elementary art classroom. This project describes the process of developing art curriculum for fifth grade students, based on course work in ART 380 Educating the Child and using Washington State Visual Arts standards and corresponding assessment. Over the course of six weeks, with one 45-minute lesson per week, students produced a series of images illustrating an important event, person, or place in their life. By producing these artworks, students developed techniques and vocabulary in preparation for an assessment of one of their final pieces. Students learned to identify and use horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines. They identified objects in the foreground, middle ground, and background of example pieces and practiced creating depth in their artwork. Students incorporated a variety of line qualities, textures, sizes of objects, positions, overlapping, details, and color combinations.

Department

Art

Type

Text

Rights

Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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