5th Grade - Lesson 2 : Geometric and Organic Shapes
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Description of Project
Students select art materials and combine geometric and organic shapes for a surprise ending in a collage, painting, or drawing.
Washington Masterworks
Black Angel by Joseph Goldberg
Back from Egypt by Harold Balazs
Photos courtesy of the Tacoma Art Museum and the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture.
Instructional Video
Learning Standards
Arts GLEs
- 1.1.a Combine ideas to generate an innovative idea for artmaking.
- 1.2.a Identify and demonstrate diverse methods of artistic investigation to choose an approach for beginning a work of art.
- 2.1.a Experiment and develop artistic ideas and work.
- 7.1.a Compare one’s own interpretation of a work of art with the interpretation of others.
- 8.a Interpret art by analyzing characteristics of form and structure, contextual information, subject matter, visual elements, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed. *10.a Apply formal and conceptual vocabularies of art and design to view surroundings in new ways through art-making.
Common Core Math
- 5.G.B.3. Understand that attributes belonging to a category of two-dimensional figures also belong to subcategories of that category. For example, all rectangles have four right angles and squares are rectangles, so all squares have four right angles.