Topic: Sculptures

Standards:
VA:Cr1.1.Ka Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials.
VA:Cr2.1.Ka Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to
art making.
VA:Cr2.2.Ka Identify safe and non-toxic art materials, tools, and equipment.
VA:Cr2.3.Ka Create art that represent s natural and constructed environments.
VA:Cr3.1.Ka Explain the process of making art while creating.

CCRA.R.7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats,
including visually and quantitatively, as well as in worlds.
W.K.2 Use a combination of drawing and, dictating, and writing to compose informative/
explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some
information about the topic.
CCRA.W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization,
and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCRA.SL.2 Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats,
including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
SL.K.5 Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide
additional detail.
L.K.1 Demonstrate command of the convention of standard English grammar and usage
when writing or speaking.
a. Print many upper- and lowercase letters.

Big Idea: Art is a process and can be expressed in many different forms, with many
different materials.

Key Understandings:
I want my students to understand that…
 Sculpture is one aspect of art.
 Sculptures can be created and formed out of different materials.
 Sculptures can be represented in many different ways.
 There is a process in creating art.

Essential Questions:
 What is a sculpture?
 What is your process when creating art?
 Are you a sculptor?
 What determines a piece of art is a sculpture?

Know:
 How to experiment with different materials to create different forms of sculptures.
 How to create art that represents natural and constructed environments.
  The process of creating art.
 Vocabulary words about sculpture

Do:
 Show the process of creating art by creating different forms of sculptures.
 Explain about their sculpture through writing and different medias, and formats.
 Create art that represents natural and constructed environments.
 Use sculpture vocabulary words correctly.

Assessment Plan:

1. Pre-Assessment:
 Ask students questions concerning sculptures, who makes sculptures, what are
sculptures made of. Other questions include how sculpture differs from different
forms of art.

2. Formative Assessment:
 Create a sculpture made out of clay after learning about what sculptures are and
where they originated. Write about their sculpture, what it is and what it
represents.
 Create a sculpture out of paper and glue. Experimenting with various approaches
to art making. Write about their sculpture, what it is and what it represents.
 Create a sculpture out of toothpicks and marshmallows and explaining the process
of making art while creating. Write about their sculpture, what it is and what it
represents.
Other Evidence:
 Creating multiple forms of sculptures while using different materials.
 Using the vocabulary of art and sculptures.
 Writing about their sculpture and giving a detailed description of it.

3. Summative Assessment:
 Will be the same as the pre-assessment, including some of the essential questions
that were not already on the pre-assessment.