Lesson Title: BIG IDEA & LEARNING OBJECTIVES Shape Art Students will make and use shape stamps to create Paul Klee like Content Area & Arts compositions featuring overlapping images. Discipline

Math & Visual art

Overview of the lesson:

Create shape art and identify the shapes in the PROCEDURES art to create a graph. The teacher/teaching artist will engage students (“the hook”) by showing students Paul Klee’s image, Senecio. The teacher will lead a Grade Level: kindergarten discussion of how they think Paul Klee created this image. Pose the question: Do you think artists use math when creating art? How does Proposed Time Frame: this image help answer this question? one hour The teacher/teaching artist will build knowledge by asking Date Lesson Created: students to notice the different shapes and patterns in Paul Klee’s images. The students will name the shapes they see and discuss May 1, 2014 the attributes of the shapes.

Lesson Author: Jeni The teacher/teaching artist will model the experience by showing Chandler students how to create a Paul Klee-style piece of art. TTW model how to use shape stamps to create the art. Model pressing & lifting Room Requirements & the stamp and turning the stamp. Arrangement: classroom The teacher/teaching artist will guide the practice with the Materials/Equipment: students by providing small groups a variety of shape stamps. TSW images of Paul Klee’s work stamp the shapes using different colors. Students will be guided to Premade sponges cut into overlap the shapes, turn shapes, and use a variety of color. After the different shapes art dries, help students trace shapes using glitter glue. Tempera paint White paper Glitter glue The students will apply understanding by naming the shapes Resources: used in their art. They will explain how they repeated certain shapes and overlapped shapes. Vocabulary: names of The teacher/teaching artist will create opportunities for

Created by the Whole Schools Initiative at the Mississippi Arts Commission different shapes, reflection (Closing) by having students discuss how this art project overlapping, shape, texture, helped students learn more about shapes. Have students explain repetition how art and math can be connected.

The teacher/teaching artist will assess the students’ learning by working with students in small groups to compare and contrast student artwork. Each student will create a tally chart of the shapes used in his/her art.

STANDARDS & PRINCIPLES

State Content Standards K. MD.3 Classify objects into given categories such as size, shape, color, thickness/ Count the number of objects (10 or less) in each Category. K. G.2 Correctly name shapes regardless of orientation or size

Arts Standards 2. Apply color, line, shape, texture, and pattern in works of art to communicate ideas. (CP) b. Name and utilize basic shapes (circle, square, rectangle, and triangle) in works of art and in the environment. d. Create original works of art using different colors, shapes, and lines. Principles of Universal Design for Learning 1.3 Offer alternatives for visual information 5.1 Use multiple media for communication 7.1 Optimize individual choice and autonomy

APPENDIX

Extended Learning Activities: Math center: Students look through magazines for different shapes and create a shape collage.

TIPS/FAQs: Buy thin cheap sponges to create shape stamps.

REFERENCES: CRAYOLA DREAM-MAKERS, MATHEMATICS K-6

Created by the Whole Schools Initiative at the Mississippi Arts Commission