Art Curriculum for Middle School, Upper Elementary Art Course, Semester Long
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This visual arts semester long curriculum is everything you need to teach a semester in a middle school art or upper elementary art course. This art curriculum includes projects, activities, and worksheets, functioning as a survey of a variety of art making. With the elements of art and principles of design as a guide, it's a perfect introduction to drawing, painting, mixed media, sculpture, clay, and mixed media. With this bundle, you won't have to plan a single day of an entire semester in your art class.
This curriculum includes 12 projects, 17 activities, and 50 art worksheets and handouts. Each lesson includes a lesson plan, supply list, vocabulary, step-by-step instructions, PowerPoints, rubrics, critique sheets, handouts, and anything else needed to complete the project.
This middle or upper elementary art curriculum focuses on introducing students to a wide range of materials and techniques. Each project focuses on a different element of art or principle of design.
All in all this curriculum includes:
➢Timeline with project overview and pacing
➢Supply list with project supply breakdown and a comprehensive list
✵First day of school handouts
➢Syllabus
➢Tell me about you worksheet
➢Parent information sheet
➢Behavior contract
✵Elements of Art, Principles of Design
➢2 worksheet packs with 16 back and front handouts that cover the elements of art and principles of design.
➢These activities will guide the projects and teach students about the elements of art and principles of design.
✵Folder to Sketchbook
➢Folder to Sketchbook Lesson plan (including big idea, essential questions, objectives, national standards, supply list, and day-to-day how-to)
➢Introduction PowerPoint
➢Step-by-step instructions
➢Rrubric
✵Sketchbook Prompts
➢92 sketchbook prompts
➢Jar label for a prompt jar
➢Classroom implementation
✵Still Life Drawing
➢A lesson plan (with a big idea, objectives, vocabulary, national middle and high
school art standards, and step-by-step instructions on implementing the project)
➢Still Life Intro PowerPoint
➢Viewfinder template
➢Still Life PowerPoint II
➢Self-evaluation sheets
➢Artist research sheet
➢Critique sheet
➢Rubric
➢Checklist
✵Value Handouts
➢A lesson plan (with a big idea, objectives, vocabulary, national middle and high school art standards, and step-by-step instructions on implementing the activity)
➢Value and shading worksheet
➢Value scale and labeling worksheet
✵Atmospheric Perspective
➣Lesson plan
➣Distance learning instructions
➣Grayscale atmospheric perspective example and info sheet
➣Monochromatic atmospheric perspective example and info sheet
➣Grayscale how-to, with step-by-step instructions
➣Monochromatic value scale how-to, with step-by-step instructions
➣Grayscale landscape scene how-to, with step-by-step instructions
➣Monochromatic landscape scene how-to, with step-by-step instructions
➣Links to a grayscale demo video and monochromatic demo video
➣Project checklist
✵Zentangle Maze
➣A lesson plan, including the big idea, objectives, essential questions, a breakdown of the process, and national art and language art standards are included for grades 6th-12th.
➣Rubric
➣Critique worksheet
➣2 zendoodle practice worksheets
➣Zendoodle maze how-to worksheet
➣Presentation (PDF and PowerPoint versions)
✵Egyptian Cartouche
➢A thorough lesson plan (big idea, I can, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step-by-step implementation instructions). With instructions to use for second grades or adapting it for older students up to 6th grade.
➢Egyptian art, project presentation
➢Demo video to show students the steps (accessed via YouTube or Google Drive)
➢Egyptian cartouche drawing how to
➢Hieroglyphics guide
➢Project checklist
➢Early finisher, drawing an Egyptian column
➢Early finisher, Egyptian sarcophagus information
➢Early finisher, Egyptian sarcophagus activity
✵Color Theory
➢Color theory lesson plan (including big idea, essential questions, goals, vocabulary, national standards, supply, list, step-by-step instructions, and more.)
➢Part I PowerPoint
➢Color wheel worksheet
➢Part II PowerPoint
➢Color schemes worksheet
➢Part III PowerPoint
➢Grayscale and neutrals worksheets
➢Assignment checklist
✵Blind Contour Color Mixing
➢Lesson plan (including the big idea, essential questions, objectives, national standards, and step-by-step instructions)
➢Sketchbook assignment sheet
➢Project assignment sheet
➢PowerPoint (also in PDF format)
➢Rubric
➢Critique sheet
➢Critique Labels
➢2 videos (time-lapse of a blind contour drawing plus a blind contour demo and explanation)
✵Radial Symmetry
➢A thorough lesson plan (big idea, I can, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step-by-step implementation instructions).
➢2 PowerPoints and PDF presentations to start each day
➢Demo video to show students the steps (accessed via YouTube or Google Drive)
➢Project how to
➢Block letter how to
➢4 versions of a mandala design early finisher
➢Project checklist
➢Project examples
✵Perspective Name Activity
➢A thorough lesson plan (big idea, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step-by-step implementation instructions)
➢PowerPoint presentation that shows visual examples of the perspective concept
➢Assignment sheet for students to take home and read through with parents
➢How to Draw Perspective Letters handout
➢Perspective Letters Step by Step handout
➢Checklist for the teacher to check once class resumes
➢Project demo video parents and students can watch from home to help guide them through the projects (available through a YouTube link)
✵Perspective Person
➢A thorough lesson plan (big idea, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step-by-step implementation instructions)
➢Assignment sheet for students to take home and read through with parents
➢How to Draw a Perspective Person handout
➢Perspective Person Step by Step handout
➢Checklist for the teacher to check once class resumes
➢Project demo video parents and students can watch from home to help guide them through the projects (available through a YouTube link)
✵Self Portrait Print
➢A thorough lesson plan (big idea, I can, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step-by-step implementation instructions). With instructions to use for second grades or adapting it for older students up to 6th grade.
➢Teacher notes, so even if you are unfamiliar with scratch foam printmaking, you know how to best set up for it.
➢4 PowerPoint and PDF presentations to start each day
➢A Demo video to show students the steps (accessed via YouTube or Google Drive)
➢How to edit their photo using the free online program, Pixlr
➢Value scale example and activity
➢Andy Warhol artist sheet with two activities
➢Project checklist
➢How to label an edition handout
✵Clay Bell
➢Lesson Plan with big idea, essential questions, national standards, step-by-step instructions, vocabulary, and supply list
➢2 PowerPoints
➢Sketchbook activity
➢Demo video
➢Clay bell project guide
➢Critique reflection
➢Critique feedback sheet
➢Rubric
✵Mini Tape Transfer
➢A thorough lesson plan
➢Demo video to show how to create a tape transfer
➢PowerPoint presentation to introduce the project
➢Project guide handout
➢Tape transfer how to worksheet
➢Student checklist
➢Rubric
✵Design Your Own Final Project
➢A lesson plan
➢PowerPoint to introduce the assignment with project examples
➢Rubric
Each of my classes is designed to build on the last. This curriculum builds to the lessons and techniques taught in my Introduction to Art course and Drawing I course. This course functions well as taught before the Intro to Art course.
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