3rd Grade - Lesson 4 : Gathering Information About People
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Description of Project
Students make a series of observational figure drawings using continuous line to capture a specific pose in their sketchbooks. (Teach in multiple sessions.)
Washington Masterworks
Fisherman’s Morning by Aki Sugabi
Folk Dance on Independence Day II by Mark Tobey
The Builders by Jacob Lawrence
Games by Jacob Lawrence
Photos courtesy of 4Culture and the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
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.
- 7.2.a Determine messages communicated by an image.
- 8.a Interpret art by analyzing the use of media to create subject matter, characteristics of form and mood.
- 10.a Develop a work of art based on observations of surroundings.
Common Core ELA
- 3.L.1.d. Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
- 3.L.5.b. Identify real-life connections between words and their use.