UNIT PLAN TEMPLATE Form E: Week 5 or earlier

Title
Designing your World

Topic or Theme
Exposing the use of art and design in everyday objects.

Unit Overview
How are the designs on your shirt created? Who creates the designs on CD covers?
Advertisements? DVDs? Posters? What type of training do the designers go through? How do
they come up with the ideas? Is art necessary to these professions?

Stained Glass Watercolor (3 weeks)
CD cover Tempera (2 weeks)
T-shirt print Acrylic (2 weeks)
Content Standards
1A. Apply materials, techniques, media, technology, and processes with sufficient skill,
confidence, and sensitivity that personal intentions are carried out in artworks.
1B. Intentionally use art materials and tools effectively to communicate ideas.
1C. Apply organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems.
2A. Apply materials, techniques and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that
personal intentions are carried out in artworks.
2B. Create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts
problems.
2C. Describe the origins of specific images and ideas and explain why they are of value in their
artwork and in the work of others.
2D. Apply and adapt subjects, symbols, and creative ideas in artworks and use the skills gained to
solve problems in daily life.
2E. Demonstrate an improved ability to integrate structures, characteristics and principles to
accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes in art.
5B. Describe the characteristics of a variety of visual arts careers.
Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
-Experiment with a variety of paints
-Create design for everyday objects
-Follow the process of design
-See practical art as applied to various job fields
-Connect with the world we see (advertisements, CD covers, etc.)
-Appreciate designs and the process of design creation in daily life
Concept
Map



Organization of Content
Students will begin with the thinnest paint and continue thicker.
Watercolor
-Students will begin practicing with the paint and then move on to the project. This will then be
linked to the idea of stained glass through the weekly journal entries and youtube video
worksheet.
Tempera
-Students will begin practicing with the paint and mixing through the use of the color wheel.
They will then apply this practice to their CD cover project. This is then linked to the weekly
journal about movie posters, questioning the students definition of art when it comes to
graphic design.
Acrylic
-Students will begin with the designing portion of the project, thinking about the designs they
choose to wear. They will then translate this idea into stencils for a printmaking process that
will be applied to paper. This process can then be applied to printing on shirts which is
connected through a youtube video
Organization of Classroom Environment
A color wheel is on the wall of the classroom for the students to be able to reference while
painting. All of the painting supplies are located in the center of the room so that the students may
have access to them as necessary. The watercolor textures are on the board for the students to
reference while painting and while completing the journals.
Instructional Resources and Materials
Youtube videos:
Robert Oddy:
Movie Posters:
Bibliography of books, readings, and resources for students
Youtube videos:

Technology:
The students have access to netbooks while in the classroom. They will use these to watch the
videos on stained glass and T-shirt printing in order to complete a worksheet with questions
regarding content in the video.