3rd Grade - Lesson 2 : Balancing Shapes and Making Them Pop with Color!
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Description of Project
Students place complementary colors next to each other to create high contrast in a paper collage.
Washington Masterworks
Going Through the Motions by Adriene Cruz
Where to Now, St. Peter? by Juan Alonso
Photos courtesy of the 4Culture.
Instructional Video
Learning Standards
Visual Art
- 1.1.a Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
- 1.2.a Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies through art making.
- 2.1.a Create personally satisfying artwork, using a variety of artistic processes and materials.
- 2.2.a Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes.
- 7.1.a Speculate about processes an artist uses to create a work of art.
- 8.a Interpret art by analyzing use of media to create subject matter, characteristics of form and mood.
- 9.a Evaluate an artwork based on given criteria.
Common Core Math
- 3.G.A.1. Understand that shapes in different categories may share attributes and that the shared attributes can define a larger category. Recognize rhombuses, rectangles and squares as quadrilaterals and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories.