Second Grade – Elements of Art
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What is a museum and what are all the different types of art you see there
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Introduce terms: portrait, sculpture, landscape, etc., as well as art elements: line, color, texture, shape and form
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Describe what they see
Second Grade Slides
Third Grade – Art that Tells Stories
- How do artists tell stories by describing character through portrait, settings in landscapes, and what’s happening
- Begin to identify terms of composition: focal point, foreground, middle-ground, background
- Describe how artists use the elements: line, color, and texture to create motion
Third Grade Slides
Fourth Grade – California Focus
- California history, geography, and environment seen through the eyes of artists
- Compare and contrast pieces in at least two ways
- Focus on landscape painting
- Define perspective by such devices as size, placement, shading, detail, and vanishing points
Fourth Grade Slides
Fifth Grade – American Art
- Bringing history to life, American history to 1930
- What’s American about American art?
- Compare and contrast pieces in at least three ways
- See how artists create mood and sense of time, place, and space in their works of art
- Differentiate between realistic and abstract
- Introduce new media, print, photography, etc.
Fifth Grade Slides
Sixth Grade – Antiquities
- What do the objects of art tell us about people’s lives and beliefs
- Focus on sculpture
- Discuss the different artist’s tools and materials
- Discuss symbols and myth, cultural terms
- Encourage the kids to make inferences from what they are seeing
Sixth Grade Slides