| Unit 1 - Thinking and Working as Artists | Artist / Book / Theme | Project | Materials |
| * Discover Crayons |
drawing |
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| * Tearing |
collage |
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| * Cutting |
collage |
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| Unit 2 - Shapes |
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| * Painting One Shape at a Time |
Inventing Insects |
Painting |
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| * Arranging Shapes |
Cut Paper Insects & Funky Jack-O-Lanterns |
collage |
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| * Shapes in Nature |
Leaf Man |
Leaf Collage |
collage |
| Unit 3 - Color |
collage |
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| * ROY G BIV | Plant a Rainbow | Rainbow Flowers |
collage |
| * Primary Colors |
Mondrian |
Mondrian Squares |
drawing |
| * Secondary Colors |
Mark Rothko |
non-objective painting |
painting |
| * Advanced Color Mixing |
free painting |
painting |
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| Unit 4 - Ceramics |
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| * Handbuilding |
Bells |
Clay |
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| Unit 5 - Design |
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| * Placement |
Wrapping Paper |
Gift Bags |
markers |
| * Symmetry |
Snowflake Bentley |
Radial Designs |
markers |
| * Arrangement |
Matisse |
Collage |
collage |
| Unit 6 - Shapes |
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| * Lines = Shapes |
Tree Paintings |
watercolor |
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| * Patterns |
Quilts |
Quilt Square |
collage |
| Unit 7 - Portraits |
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| * Identify Characteristics |
Draw a self portrait with mirrors |
drawing |
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| * 100th Day Portrait |
How will I look at age 100?! |
collage |
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| * Realism |
George Washington painting Abraham Lincoln photograph |
Presidential Portraits |
drawing |
| * Abstract |
Paul Klee |
Head of Man |
mixed media |
| Unit 8 - Landscape |
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| * Identify Characteristics (Horizon Line, Foreground, Background) |
Farms |
Painting |
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| * Buildings in a Landscape |
Cherry Blossom Festival |
Jefferson Memorial Paintings |
painting |
| * Plants and Animals in a Landscape |
Henry Rousseau |
A Painted Tale |
drawing |
| * Compare & Contrast / Recognize Style |
George O'Keefe |
Skulls |
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