Visual Art Lesson Plan Template

Grade: 1st Grade

Teacher: Kailyn Jackson, Student Teacher, Long Branch Elementary
Big Idea: Unit 1 Looking Around and Seeing Our World, Lesson 1 Beautiful Buildings,
Finding Lines Everywhere
Timeframe: Three 30 minute sessions
Enduring Understanding:
Strand 1, Thinking and working as artists, we can find and show beauty in the places of the
world.
Essential Questions:
What are some different types of lines?
What kind of lines do you see in your environment?
Art SOL Objectives:
1.5 The student will create art from real and imaginary sources of inspiration
1.6 The student will depict personal experiences in works of art.
1.10 The student will demonstrate the use of size relationships in works of art.
1.15 The student will describe similarities and differences among works of art.
1.16 The student will explain why viewers may have different responses to works of
art.
Content Objectives:
The students will:
Understand that artists help us find beauty in our world.
Find and describe lines in the environment and in artworks.
Create a drawing of a beautiful place.
Language Objectives:
Students will use art vocabulary to discuss lines and 2D shapes.
Students will discuss artworks using key art vocabulary and properly identify types of
lines.
Key Vocabulary, Artists and Art History:
Lines- thin, thick, wavy, curved, straight
Taj Mahal
Architecture- buildings
Color
Shapes

Lesson Resources:
Ustad Ahmad Mamar Lahori, The Taj Mahal at Agra, 1632, p.4
India, The Taj Mahal at Agra, Uttar Pradesh, 1600s, Watercolor Painting, p.4
Peter Eisenman and Richard Trott, The Wexner Center of the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, p.5
Personal photographs?
Art Materials:
White construction Paper 18x24
Drawing paper 9x12
Watercolors
Pencils
Cardboard
Black paint
Solo cups (some can be cut in half to make half circles)

Procedure
Transition/Bridge:
Raise your hand if you have been to a place outside of Arlington or traveled to another
country.
What types of buildings did you see? Describe them using lines and shapes.
Motivation:
Start a class discussion about the images on page 4 projected on the smart board.
Discuss the picture and painting of the Tah Mahal.
What kinds of lines do you see? Students can come up and draw the lines they see on the
smartboard.
How are the pictures of the Tah Mahal the same and different?
Discuss the picture by Peter Eisenman and Richard Trott on page 5 projected on the smart board.
How is this picture different from the Taj Mahal?
What kind of lines do you see in this image?
How does the artist use shape?
Presentation:
Display Images used in discussion on smart board
Tell students to take a moment to close their eyes and think about a (beautiful building) place
they visited (friends house, museum etc). Then ask students to describe the types of lines they

saw.
They may also use their imagination to create a place using lines and shapes.
Practice:
Session 1:
Demonstrate how to draw different kinds of lines.
Thin, thick, straight, curved, wavy.
Demonstrate how to combine different lines to create buildings/places (shapes).
Session 2:
Demonstrate how to line print using pieces of cardboard at various lengths, solo cups,
some can be cut in half to create half circles. Half circles and be combined to create
wavy lines.
Session 3:
Demonstrate how to paint with watercolors. How to change the color paint on the
brush. How to paint with the brush. How to not have paint drip from the brush, stroke
brush bristles against edge of water container.
Activity:
Session 1;
Have students sketch different types of lines to create their place. They can practice
these lines on the back of their sketch.
Have students draw a real or imaginary (building) place for their picture. This can be
their home or some place in their neighborhood
Session 2:
Students will line print their building based on their sketch with black paint.
Remind students to think about size and proportion. Their sketch will be on a smaller
size paper so their final work should be printed slightly larger.
Session 3:
Students will add color to their artwork using watercolors. Make sure to have students
focus on adding color to their buildings first, if time is an issue.
Conclusion
Assessment:
Students will identify how artists use lines to show a beautiful place.
Students will discuss with their table partner their work of art. Where is the building?
What types of lines did you used to create your building?

Screen shots of the slides from the lesson objectives and assessment.

Make sure to mention that drawings use a variety of lines to show a place that we think
is beautiful and drawings include a representation of ones self.
Close:
Lesson Wrap Up
What are some types of lines? Students can draw these lines in the air to review.
Raise your hand each time I name a building that has lines: a school, a mall, an
amusement park, the White House, museums. Ask students to identify other types of
buildings that have lines.
Differentiated Instruction:
Provide images of places/buildings for students that need a visual to create their
drawing.
Also students can draw their neighborhood, home or another place that is familiar to
them.
Connections:
Geography Connection: Places Around the World