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D. Produce artworks that express and represent their experiences, imagination and ideas
using a range of media including new technologies.
B). This lesson is relevant because there is a power to beginning to reveal to children the
special ways in which they have been uniquely gifted to make a difference in the lives of other
people. In our world there is so much suffering and injustice. The weak need people to stand up
for them, the hungry need feed, and the sick need help. These students can play a role in
making the world a more kind and brave place through beginning to see themselves as
responsible for doing good with the gifts they have. This lesson is a fun way to bring this idea up
to them, and to let that take root. Since most of my students live in affluent families and an
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affluent community with lots of resources, they have a lot of means to help other people. It is
important that from this young age they can see themselves as allies to the oppressed. They
need to see their strengths so that when they are faced with the reality of the suffering they feel
a responsibility to step in and help.
Central Focus (creating, presenting, interpreting, responding, and/or relating art to context)
Each Students is a superhero in plain clothing.
This unit is all about students viewing themselves as a superhero and creating logos, figurines,
and comic strips that focus on this.
Possible Integration
Reading/English: English teachers could teach lessons on narrative, characterization, or
dialogue. These will be helpful in crafting the comic strips in the third lesson.
History: History classes could be integrated in this lesson by highlighting figures in history that
have made a significant impact for good. Especially describing how those people found
themselves in positions where they could use their strengths to help other people.
For homework the students will take home a guided interview for them to
complete with an adult that they trust, where they will discuss together the
students strengths and an individual.
Next class students will decide what they want their superpower to be for
themselves as a superhero, based on their interview. We will discuss Line,
Shape, color, contrast, and balance as elements and principles of design.
On their ipads students will digitally create a logo for their superhero
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selves that incorporates these elements and principles.
Lesson Two
Title Action Figure
Lesson Description At the beginning of this lesson we will look at the human form as it
appears throughout art history. Students will do a short research project
and share their findings with their tables.
We will introduce clay as a medium and have a demo of different tools that
can be used to create different effects in the clay. They will learn about
Needle tools, loop tools, and wooden tools. Students will then create a
clay figurine of themselves as a superhero. when they have been built and
become bone dry, we will fire them. The students will then paint the
bisqueware with acrylic paint. They will paint their logo that they designed
onto their figurine, and we will tie cloth on them if they want capes.
Through the lesson they will have a checklist that they will work from and
turn in at the end.
Lesson Three
Title POP! WHAM! POW! Comic Strip
Lesson Description As a class we will be looking at various panels of old comic books and
talking about the emotion and action that is portrayed through each panel.
We will talk about what drawing techniques could be used to achieve
those results.
Basing their characterization of their superhero selves on their figurine and
logo, students will draw an 8 panel comic strip. The students will show
through action and dialogue how their superpower could play out in real
life.
LESSON PLAN
LESSON NUMBER 1
Lesson Title Interview and Personal Logo Design
Length of Class Period 45 min.
Approximate Number of Students in Each class 20
Beginning Date for this Lesson
Ending Date for this Lesson
6PE - Identify and Name the sources for artmaking (e.g. Self, environment, and other people)
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CONTENT STATEMENT – RESPONDING/REFLECTING (FROM ODE STANDARDS)
1 RE - Identify qualities that contribute to the design and meaning of their artworks and the
works of others
Students will be able to point out and recognize where the ideas for the design of their logo
came from (e.g. themselves, the media, their culture, art class, etc.)
Students will utilize line, shape, color, contrast and balance to compose a logo for their
superhero on Procreate on their Ipads.
Students will locate the elements and principles of design that help them to interpret their own
logo design and also the designs of their classmates.
Students will fill out and turn in an accompanying artist’s statement with their logo. In this
statement will cite 3 aspects of their logo with a description of where their idea came from.
The Superhero Logo will feature the use of Line, shape, Color, Contrast, and and Balance along
with an accompanying artists statement describing their decision making process.
A halfway peer check worksheet will show evidence of correctly pinpointing Line, shape, Color,
balance, and contrast in the work of their peers.
Academic Language
Vocabulary (define each)
Line - An element of art defined by a point moving in space. Line may be two-or three-
dimensional, descriptive, implied, or abstract.
Shape - An element of art that is two-dimensional, flat, or limited to height and width.
Color - An element of art made up of three properties: hue, value, and intensity. Focusing on
Hue which is the name of the color
Balance - A combining elements in a way that adds stability to a work of Art
Contrast - Using elements to show difference
Digital Art - Art that is made on an electronic device can include photo manipulation, digital
drawing and many other things
Pixel - One unit of a color on a screen
Layer - In digital artmaking when you adjust some of the content without jeopardizing the rest
Students will complete a short worksheet during a halfway peer check day where they will write
about the elements that their partner decided to use to compose their logos. This will require the
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ability to use class vocabulary in complete sentences.
At the end of the lesson students will write an artist statement about the sources for their ideas
and their decision making process for designing their logo.
Preparations
Materials/Resources for Teacher
Projector
IPad
Apple Pencil
Nice Printer
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LEARNING ACTIVITY
Getting the Classroom Environment Ready
For this activity the classroom will need set up to use the projector. For this assignment students
will bring their ipads with them so all other art materials should be put away. I will make a
slideshow that includes the logos of different superheroes and bring my examples of all three
lessons of this unit.
Procedures for the Teaching/Learning Structure (indicate approximate time for each step)
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Day Duration Application Resources
1 Minutes Students come into the classroom and sit down. ppt. slide with the
0-3 Greet them. day’s agenda on it
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here
1 Minutes Dr. Raymond talks about why she became a doctor Dr. Raymond
31-40 and how she helps people at her job
2 Minutes Students come into the classroom and sit down. ppt. slide with the
0-3 Greet them. day’s agenda on it
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here
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Ask: Who wants to share what they chose as their
super power?
3 Minutes Students come into the classroom and sit down. ppt. slide with the
0-3 Greet them. day’s agenda on it
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here
3 Minutes You can use the next few minutes to get a head 20 ipads
36-45 start on your logo. Think about what shape you
want it to be and start drawing. Get as far as you
can. You will have the whole class next time to work
on them
4 Minutes Students come into the classroom and sit down. ppt. slide with the
0-3 Greet them. day’s agenda on it
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here
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5 Minutes Students come into the classroom and sit down. ppt. slide with the
0-3 Greet them. day’s agenda on it
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here
5 Minutes This is your final work time in class for this project. 20 Ipads.
4-20 Finish up your final work on your logos and we will
complete your artist’s statements. If you finish early
go ahead and grab some free-draw per from the bin
or open a new workspace on procreate.
Students will take their School issued Ipads with them at the end of every class. They will sit
quietly until they are ready to be dismissed by table.
Luckily there are not very many physical materials involved in this lesson.
Supplemental Activity
If students finish early they should write their artist’s statement and then they can get free-draw
paper and draw.
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LESSON PLAN
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Teacher Candidate Joanna Junkans
School Alton Darby Elementary (4th Grade)
LESSON NUMBER 2
Lesson Title SuperYou Action Figure
Length of Class Period 45 Minutes
Approximate Number of Students in Each class 20
Beginning Date for this Lesson
Ending Date for this Lesson
Students will choose clay tools and ceramic methods that were demonstrated in class to create
the desired outcome.
Students will use the terms we learned in class and check their figurine with the checklist of
requirements as they work.
Students will use the checklist to make sure they use each tool at least once on their figurine, as
they use tools they will check it off on their list.
When students turn in their figurines they will turn in a filled out checklist where they note that
they have completed the requirements. I will check their list with the figurine when I grade them.
Academic Language
Vocabulary
Clay - a stiff, sticky fine-grained earth, typically yellow, red, or bluish-gray in color and often
forming an impermeable layer in the soil. It can be molded when wet, and is dried and baked to
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make bricks, pottery, and ceramics.
Leather Hard - dried and hardened enough to be trimmed or decorated with slip but not hard
enough to be fired.
Bone Dry - Dry clay ready to be fired
Kiln - a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying, especially one for calcining lime or firing
pottery.
Glaze - a vitreous substance fused onto the surface of pottery to form a hard, impervious
decorative coating
Loop tool - a tool used for trimming pottery
Rib tool - A rib tool is a wide, flat handheld tool used to shape, smooth, and/or scrape
clay surfaces; usually wood, rubber, plastic, or metal, either rigid or flexible, with straight,
curved, or profiled edge.
Needle Tool - Needle Tools are long, needles set into wooden, metal, or plastic handles.
Wooden Tool - A flat wooden or metal tool used to smooth wet or leather hard clay
Slip and score - to scratch hatch marks into it as part of joining clay pieces togethe
Preparations
Materials/Resources for Teacher
Powerpoint for figures in art
Demo materials (one of every tool, water, and clay)
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clay
many Paper Towels
20 Grocery bags
Safety Procedures
Before any student gets to use any of the tools, they will get a demo as well as a safety demo.
Students will wear smocks and tie their hair up if it is long.
I will clean the needle tools at the end of the lesson, so that students will not hurt themselves.
LEARNING ACTIVITY
Getting the Classroom Environment Ready
For the intro day: Students will bring their ipads with them to their seats. I will have my
powerpoint up. There will be a stack of worksheets to pass out at the beginning of the
classroom.
For clay work days - there will be a bin of clay in the middle of each table. As well as a little cup
of water on each table corner. There will be a tray in the middle of each table as well that has
the clay tools on it.
Procedures for the Teaching/Learning Structure (indicate approximate time for each step)
1 0-3 Students come into the classroom and sit down. ppt. slide with the
Minutes Greet them. day’s agenda on
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here it
1 25-35 Students research the art on the ipads looking for who Ipads
Minutes the figure is, how much of the figure is shown ( just the Lined Paper
face, bust, waist up, full body, etc.), what is the Pencils
medium, and when was it created.
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2 0-3 Students come into the classroom and sit down. ppt. slide with the
Minutes Greet them. day’s agenda on
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here it
2 6-20 Demo where all the students gather around me at a Ball of clay
Minutes table. I will have a ball of clay, one of each tool (rib tool, rib tool
wooden tool, wire tool, needle tool, sponge) and a cup Needle tool
of water at the table with me as a mock workstation. I wire tool
will take the clay and show them what effects you can wooden tool
get with each tool and what you would use them for. I sponge
will explain how too much or too little water effects the cup of water
clay and makes it more difficult to use. I would then go plastic shopping
about making the beginnings of an action figure. bag
paper towels
2 21-35 Each student will get a smallish ball of clay. I will show 20 Balls of clay
Minutes them how to wedge the clay. And then walk around 20 rib tools
until they are getting the ram’s horn technique. 20 needle tools
Students who get it faster than others will be 20 wire tools
encouraged to help the people at their table who are 20 sponges
having a harder time. 10 cups of water
20 plastic
shopping bags
Paper towels
3 0-3 Students come into the classroom and sit down. ppt. slide with the
Minutes Greet them. day’s agenda on
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here it
3 9-40 Work Time!!!! Pass out tools, Clay, checklists etc. I will 20 Balls of clay
walk around and offer help as needed. 20 rib tools
20 needle tools
20 wire tools
20 sponges
10 cups of water
20 plastic
shopping bags
Paper towels
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3 41-45 Clean Up!
4 0-3 Students come into the classroom and sit down. ppt. slide with the
Minutes Greet them. day’s agenda on
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here it
5 0-3 Students come into the classroom and sit down. ppt. slide with the
Minutes Greet them. day’s agenda on
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here it
5 4-8 Today you should be finishing up the body. Be thinking 20 Balls of clay
about if your want to tie a fabric cape on or if you want 20 rib tools
to make one out of clay. Start thinking about the 20 needle tools
smaller details. Let me know if you need help with 20 wire tools
anything I will be walking around. You should be ready 20 sponges
to fire it by the end of class today 10 cups of water
20 plastic
shopping bags
Paper towels
7 0-3 Students come into the classroom and sit down. ppt. slide with the
Minutes Greet them. day’s agenda on
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here it
7 4-8 Pass out fired clay action Figures and acrylic paint and Acrylic paint
Minutes checklists. red blue yellow
white and black
small fabric
pieces
7 9-40 Students paint their action figures. When they are done
minutes they will put them on the drying rack and turn in their
checklists with their names on it.
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Clean-up Procedures (Room, Materials & Work Storage)
Each student will get damp paper towels and a grocery bag and wrap up their project. They will
put them on the shelf. One student from each table will gather the excess clay, one will wipe
down the table and the other 2 will take peoples smocks and put them away.
Excess clay will be stored in an airtight container to help prevent drying out.
Supplemental Activity
Choice of
1) Free-Draw Paper - Students can use pencils or markers to draw whatever their hearts
desire
2) Mini Figurines - Do you have a sidekick? Make them in the clay! Do you have a special
tool? Make that!
*** Students are also always encouraged to see if any of their classmates need help.
LESSON PLAN
LESSON NUMBER 3
Lesson Title Pop! Wham! Pow! Comic Strip
Length of Class Period 45 Minutes
Approximate Number of Students in Each class 20
Beginning Date for this Lesson
Ending Date for this Lesson
5PE Link ideas in and design of works of art to the emotions and moods
expressed in them.
1RE Identify qualities that contribute to the design and meaning of their artworks and the works
of others.
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Performance-based Assessment Objectives
Students will be able to look at examples of comic strips together as a class and discuss what
emotions are being conveyed in a particular panel and what design aspects convery those
emotions.
Students will be able to use class time to efficiently and conscientiously use their class time to
create comic strips about their superhero and superpower.
Students will be able to discuss their comic strips with the emotions and meanings in their comic
strips.
Performance-based Assessment Strategies
(attach assessment documents if applicable)
Students will discuss as a class what emotions they think are conveyed through selections of
comic stips on a powerpoint.
Students will be observed during class time for their time on task and it will be reflected in their
final grade for the project.
Students will complete an artist's statement and will discuss 2 elements in their comic strips that
convey emotions.
Academic Language
Vocabulary
Onomatopoeia - the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g.,
cuckoo, sizzle ).
DIalogue - conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
Students will have to write an artist's statement along with their cartoon.
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Preparations
Materials/Resources for Teacher
Powerpoint of Comic Book Frames
Materials for Students
30 Sheets of White Drawing Paper 18”x 20”
30 Sheets of white drawing paper 8 ½” x 11”
20 Pencils - sharpened
20 Packs Crayola 20 Count Markers
20x notebook paper for artist’s statement
20 18” Rulers
Safety Procedures
n/a The only danger I can forsee is students stabbing each other with Pencils, so this shouldn’t
be an issue
LEARNING ACTIVITY
Getting the Classroom Environment Ready
For this lesson students will be aloud to have their printed superhero logo and figurine on their
tables to use as a reference. They will each have a pencil and the 18”x 20” piece of paper.
During later days in the lesson they will get to go over lines with Markers and fill in their comic
strip.
Procedures for the Teaching/Learning Structure (indicate approximate time for each step)
1 Minutes Students come into the classroom and sit down. ppt. Slide of the tasks
1-3 Greet them. of the day
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here.
1 Minutes Demo Dividing up the page into 8 panels. Giving 1 18”x20” piece of
21-30 room for a title. paper
1 Pencil
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1 Ruler
1 Minutes Students will start working on dividing up their 20 18”x 20” pieces of
31-40 papers using the pencils and the rulers. paper
20 Pencils
20 Rulers
2 Minutes Students come into the classroom and sit down. ppt. slide of the tasks
1-3 Greet them. of the day
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here.
3 Minutes Students come into the classroom and sit down. ppt slide of the
1-3 Greet them. agenda for the day
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here.
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1-3 Greet them.
Insert funny anecdote about the past week here.
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Comics go into the tray at the front of the room.
Pencils go into the bin underneath the cabinets.
Marker packs go into the bin underneath the cabinets.
Have the set of 3 pieces on display at the art show where parents can come pick up the artwork.
Have the artist Statements on display with the art.
Supplemental Activity
Free-Draw Paper
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