Visual Art Assignment #1:

Elements of Style: FORM: Geometric and Organic Shapes

EDPB 501: Visual Art
Submitted to: Heather Pastro
Submitted by: Ryan Seipp, Scott Brown, and Jose Esteban
Date Submitted: October 23, 2016

Lesson Plan
Lesson Title: Visual Art 8: Elements of Style: FORM: Geometric and Organic Shapes
Lesson: 1

Date: October 23, 2016

Name: Ryan Seipp, Scott Brown, and Jose Esteban

Subject: Art 8

Grade(s): 8

Rationale: (lesson context and reasons why lesson matters)

-Individual and collective expression can be achieved through the arts (including visual
arts)
-Visual arts are each unique languages for creating and communicating (art itself is a
form of communication)
Curricular Competency:
-Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of personal, social, cultural, historical,
and environmental context in relation to the arts
-Respond to works of art using one's knowledge of the world
Content:
-Manipulation of elements, principles, and design strategies to create mood and convey
ideas in the arts:
Visual Arts Elements of Design: Line, shape, space, texture, color
*Project Focus: FORM: The visual element that pertains to an actual or implied three
dimensional shape of an image: Visual art forms can be geometric or organic. In the
case of this lesson, students will choose an organic form from the real world, and
convert it to geometric form in a creative and artistic way.

Core Competency:

Communication: The communication competency encompasses the set of abilities that

students use to impart and exchange information, experiences and ideas, to explore the
world around them.
-In this lesson, students will be asked to show their communication skills in the form of
visual art, using geometric abstraction to explore objects in the world around them, and
communicate the shape of the everyday objects in their elemental form by simplifying
them into geometric shapes.
Creative Thinking: The creative thinking competency involves the generation of new
ideas and concepts that have value to the individual or others, and the development of
these ideas and concepts from thought to reality.
-Student will be creatively developing their ideas and concepts from objects in reality
and creatively reducing them in a unique way into geometric shapes.

Learning Intentions

Activity

-Learn that a variety

of organizational
principles can be
used to create a
successful
expressionists work
of art

-In tables observe and

discuss geometric art of
Wassily Kandinsky

Assessment

-Learn that inspiration

for their own work can -Get students to use
acrylic paints to make
come from many
places one of which is geometric shapes
other artists and art
movements

-I can tell the

difference between

-After they have arranged

the pile and discussed,
discuss it as a class on

geometric shapes
and organic shapes

the board of the

differences.

Prerequisite Concepts and Skill :( for student success)

-Basic understanding of geometric shapes and their presence in the real world
(we will be providing an overview of geometric shapes in the introduction, but shapes
and their application to art will have been discussed in previous classes)
-Basic understanding of the following elements of design: line, shape, space, texture,
and color. These elements will have ideally been discussed either briefly or in detail in
prior classes.

Materials and Resources with References/Sources:

For Teacher

For Students

Powerpoint / handout

Art reproductions and postcards

Wassily Kandinsky video

8" X 1 2" white paper

Examples of geometric art and their

artists

Acrylic Paint
Paint brushes
Rinse cups

Differentiated Instruction (DI): (accommodations)

-

Pair students up evenly so that students who struggle are paired with students
who are good with the art concepts.
Have a clear rubric laid out that lets the students explore different types of
combination of shapes (shape styles)

Organizational/Management Strategies: (anything special to consider?)

-

Have the material the students will be using already placed on or by each of the
tables.
Have students already assigned into groups and seated into those groups when
they enter class.

Possible Aboriginal Connections / First Peoples Principles of Learning

Lesson Activities:
Teacher Activities

Student Activities

Pacing

Introduction
(hook/motivation/lesson
overview)
Watch video clips of Wassily Kandinsky
5 mins

-Overview/ history of Wassily

Kandinsky geometric art
pioneer

-Hand out Kandinskys

examples of geometry in art
from to each table and allow
students to see examples and
make their own impressions of
his art type

In their groups students will share their own

impressions of the art with each other
15 mins

Body (lesson flow/

management)

- Hand out materials (painting

supplies and paper)

Get the students organized and explain

different ways to use geometry in pictures

10 mins

25 mins
-Let the students make their
own geometric art

Closure ( connections within

lesson or between lessons,
sharing successes,
summaries)

-Be creative

10 mins

-Clean up the supplies and

discuss how geometry and art
correlate in the world