DISCIPLINE-BASED ART EDUCATION LESSON PLAN

Anna Reid & Torin Sawyer

April 21st
TITLE: Youve Got the Whole World in Your Hands.
TIME NEEDED: 30-45 minutes, plus clean-up time
GRADE LEVELS: 2nd
A.) ART ELEMENTS AND B.) PRINCIPLES (DESIGN ELEMENTS):
a- Elements:

Color (Different skin colors, colors of the world)

Value (The different shades of skin color)
Shape (Cut out the shape of their hand)

b- Design Elements
Variety (A variety of color and shapes will be used, and the contrast between the
skin color and the colors of the earth)
MATERIALS/MEDIA:

Paper plates
Color construction paper
Scissors
Markers/colored pencils/ crayons

STUDENT PERFORMANCE:
Primary Goal: Students will create a representation of the Earth on a paper plate, and
write their wishes for world change on their handprint. The students will learn about
different skin colors, but how we are all part of the same world.

Students will be able to create a picture of the world

Students will be able to trace and cut out their handprint
Students will be able to retell how diversity is important

EALRS (Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements):

Arts EALRs

Subject Area Common Co

GLE: 1.1.2
Understands, applies, and creates the elements shape
and form when producing a work of art.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.8

Recall information from experiences

from provided sources to answer a

GLE: 1.1.3
Understands, applies, and creates the element value
when producing a work of art.
GLE: 1.1.6
Understands, applies, and creates the element color
when producing a work of art.

DBAE ART INQUIRY AREAS:

Art Production: Students (create) a depiction of the world with their handprint on it,
and one way they wish the world would change.
TEACHING STRATEGIES:
Introduction
We are going to start off with a song to get the students engaged in the lesson we will be
teaching.
We will print out the lyrics so the students can follow along with the video we will show.
Questions: Drive thinking, learning, and engagement.
What does being kind to the Earth look like?
How can you reduce, reuse, or recycle?
????
Learning Activities: Write a procedural set of steps.
The teachers will begin by introducing the idea that we are all in this together, and we
need to work together to achieve a better tomorrow. The students will each be given a
sheet of lyrics for the song Weve Got the Whole World in Our Hands, and will learn
how to sing along to it (possible harmonica inclusion?). The students will then be given a
paper plate and be instructed to design their plate to look like the Earth. After finishing
their Earth, the students will trace both of their hands and cut them out. On one of the
hands, the students will write one thing they can do as an individual to better the world,
and on the other hand, the students will write one thing that their community can do to
make the world a better place.

Closure: Review the learning targets for the day and refocus on what is important.
After everybody has completed their Earth being held by their hands (and if we have
time!) we will have the students come up with one way they as a class can help the
Earth.
The students would be asked about why they choose the colors they did, and the shapes
they did as well. We sill have a short discussion on the experiences they drew from to
complete their project as well.

ACCOMMODATIONS:
If there are any students that need accommodations, we will help them when the time
comes. We choose this lesson because we thought it was simple enough for the whole
class to complete, yet could be changed into a complex assignment depending on the
words that the students wrote on their hands.
There will also be support in the room that students can ask for help from.

VOCABULARY:

Recycle: a process in which items can be used again

Reduce: Trying to use less resources
Diversity: Many different kinds of people, animals, or objects that can work
together

Term: Definition
EVALUATION:
1,) Each student is required to.
2.) Each group
RESOURCES:
DariaMusic. (2011, January 13). We've Got The Whole World In Our Hands. Retrieved April 25,
2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIQUOIyE7q0
DariaMusic. (1996). We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands Lyrics. Retrieved April 25, 2016,
from http://www.dariamusic.com/wholeworld.php