Lesson Title: Exploring Art Mediums
Topic/Focus Area: How Art mediums influence the artwork itself.

Lesson Overview
Content Standards
Objectives
Activities
Resources
File Attachments
Assessment
Additional Comments

Subject(s): Visual Arts

Grade Level(s): 9-12

Name: Christi (Jennifer) Fennell
Taught: Art 1, 2, 3, Design and Publications
Phone:
E-mail: cfennell1@yahoo.com
School: Calipatria High

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Lesson Overview



Standards

Subject : English-Language Arts
Grade : Ninth & Tenth
Strand : Writing
Substrand 1.0 : Writing Strategies

Students write coherent and focused essays that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing demonstrates students’ awareness of the audience and purpose. Students progress through the stages of the writing process as needed.


Concept : Research and Technology

 
 
California High School Exit Exam (1)
STAR California Standards Test
Standard:
1.3
Use clear research questions and suitable research methods (e.g., library, electronic media, personal interview) to elicit and present evidence from primary and secondary sources.

 
 
Standard:
1.8
Design and publish documents by using advanced publishing software and graphic programs.

Strand : Listening and Speaking
Substrand 1.0 : Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.


Concept : Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication

Standard:
1.3
Choose logical patterns of organization (e.g., chronological, topical, cause and effect) to inform and to persuade, by soliciting agreement or action, or to unite audiences behind a common belief or cause.

 
 
Standard:
1.7
Use props, visual aids, graphs, and electronic media to enhance the appeal and accuracy of presentations.

Substrand 2.0 : Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)

Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description. Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.


Standard:
2.6a
Deliver descriptive presentations that establish clearly the speaker's point of view on the subject of the presentation.

Grade : Eleventh & Twelfth
Strand : Writing
Substrand 1.0 : Writing Strategies

Students write coherent and focused texts that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing demonstrates students’ awareness of the audience and purpose and progression through the stages of the writing process.


Concept : Organization and Focus

 
 
STAR California Standards Test
Standard:
1.3
Structure ideas and arguments in a sustained, persuasive, and sophisticated way and support them with precise and relevant examples.

Concept : Research and Technology

 
 
Standard:
1.8
Integrate databases, graphics, and spreadsheets into word-processed documents.

Strand : Listening and Speaking
Substrand 1.0 : Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations that convey clear and distinct perspectives and demonstrate solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.


Concept : Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication

Standard:
1.8c
Use effective and interesting language that include technical language for specificity.

Subject : Visual Arts
Grade : Nine thru Twelve (advanced)
Strand : Artistic Perception
Substrand 1.0 : Processing, Analyzing, and Responding to Sensory Information Through the Language and Skills Unique to the Visual Arts

Students perceive and respond to works of art, objects in nature, events, and the environment. They use the vocabulary of the visual arts to express their observations.


Concept : Impact of Media Choice

 
 
Standard:
1.8
Analyze the works of a well known artist as to the art media selected and the effect of that selection on the artist’s style.

Student Learning Objectives


Activities

  1. (If using this lesson in a first year class, this should be implemented towards the end of school. Advanced students could do this activity in the first few months of the school year.)

    Pretest or KWL-
    Students will take a pretest or teacher will lead the students in a KWL activity.
    K- What do you Know?
    W- What do you Want to know?
    L- What did you Learn?

    After you have introduced the topic, give each student a printed KWL worksheet. They need to have a pencil or pen also.

    In the first column, the students need to write what they already KNOW about Art Mediums. Do not help them! This needs to be what they remember from lectures in the past.

    Next, they need to fill in the second column with what they WANT to know. These are questions that they want answered.
  2. Discussion
    After all students are done, have a group dicussion about what they know and what they want to know. Either you or one of your students can write the questions on the board, overhead or using an LCD projector, project them on the wall by typing them into a word processing program.

    Sample Questions for the W column:
    What are different types of media?
    What is watercolor made of?
    Why are they used?
    How are they different?
    What different effects can be achieved?
    How does the media influence the perception of the artwork?
  3. Internet time
    Students are given the question:
    How does the media influence the perception of the artwork?

    Students will be given computer lab time to find several pieces of artwork from one artist. (It is best if they have the same or similar subject matter.) Different mediums need to be presented.
    Print if possible, examples of different media from same artist
    Students will then compare the different artwork and see how they perceive the works.

    Fill out worksheet asking questions about works.
    Does the medium change how they are perceived? Is a statue made of marble more desirable then one made of wood?




Resources


Web Resources
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/art (www.glencoe.com)

http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ (www.artsednet.getty.edu)

http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Links/art.html (www.artsednet.getty.edu)


Hardware/Software Resources (computers, CD-ROMs, TV, VCR, etc.)
Computers, printers, copier
possiblly TV/VCR if video is used

File Attachments

download the file KWL Worksheet
  — KWL_Sheet_For_Christi_Fennell.htm   (3.73 KB)


Assessment
Additional Comments
This lesson focuses on learning about diffenent types of art mediums.

Challenge Standards:
Standard 1 - Benchmark 4. The student continues to expand and use art vocabulary to describe and analyze works of art and the environment.
Standard 2 - Benchmark 2. The student explores a variety of visual art media, techniques, and processes, making choices as to what to apply in his or her work.