Art Lesson Plan

Title: Watercolor Resist Landscape

Grade level (s): 2

Unit: African Art

Medium: Multi Media

Suggested Time: One Period

Instructional Objectives (2-3):
Students will learn how to create am original landscape. Create a design, using lines,
and apply water color paint to wet areas to blend color (wet-on-wet technique).

Elements of Art (1-3) line, color, shape, form, space, texture, value

Principles of Design (1-3) repetition, pattern, movement, balance, emphasis, contrast, unity

Materials and Equipment: watercolors, paintbrush, pencil, crayons, cup of water,

paper towel, 12x18 multimedia paper

General Vocabulary (4-5): background, middle ground, foreground, horizon line.

Art Production (based on Madeline Hunter model)
1.anticipatory set
2. state objectives
3. Input: art history, instructions
5. check for understanding 6. guided practice 7. independent practice

4.demonstration, modeling
8. closure

1. Examples of famous landscapes compare & contrast.

2, state objectives
3. explain background, middle ground, foreground and horizon line draw
to show example check for understanding
5. tell students that they need at least one animal in each part of landscape
6. lightly draw with pencil animals starting at foreground moving back
check for understanding
7. use crayon to outline animals press hard suggest white crayon for
clouds.
8. let them finish independently
9. see what animals they chose talk about vocab.

Assessment (should relate to objectives):

Content - what were the instructional objectives?
What are the 2 or 3 things you want theoretically to know after making this project
Instructional Objective
Creativity is it unique original and did they think outside the box of the
objectives
Craftsmanship is the project heat & carefully handled
Completion did they complete the project within the units of the assigned class
time
Content did they do the objectives and follow guidelines 1 animal in each
landscape
Creativity was it unique did they choose the moon? Use more than 1 animal in
each landscape
Craftsmanship was all the white space covered
Completion - same

Modifications / Special Notes / Drawings