Intermediate Art: World Art A
K12’s Art program provides step-by-step guidance in each lesson. Many
lessons begin by presenting a concept (for example, how shapes are used
in artworks) and showing artworks for your student to examine. To get
the full benefit of this part of the lesson, in which the artworks appear
onscreen, you and your student need to be at the computer. Once you have
finished this part of the lesson and are ready to turn to a hands-on project,
then most of the teaching and learning takes place away from the computer.
Each lesson has a teacher guide to print out. This guide is for the
adult and is meant to assist in the teaching of the lesson. The guide
contains information on the focus of the lesson and:
Lesson objectives Advance preparation:
Provides information on tasks that require preparation outside the allotted
time for the lesson, such as preparing paints Lesson notes:
Provides background information that might be helpful when teaching the
lesson Materials:
Lists materials that need to be gathered for the lesson, as well as items
to print Keywords:
Important terms used in the lesson, with brief definitions Pronunciation guide Resources:
Provides links to websites suggested in the lesson Safety:
Provides information on the safe use of materials or warnings about possible
food allergies Additional information and instructions for each
activity of the lesson Assessment instructions and a list of correct
answers and answer choices
Total lessons:
72. If you teach Art twice a week, you can comfortably complete the program
within a typical school year. Lesson time:
45 minutes. You might choose to split the lessons into smaller segments,
for example, from 20 to 25 minutes. K12’s online lesson tracking system
allows you to pick up wherever you left off in any given lesson.
Art lessons generally take one of the following forms:
Note about paintbrushes: Good
brushes are worth the few extra dollars they cost. For example, a two-dollar
camel hair paintbrush gives better results than the paintbrush that typically
comes in a watercolor paint set. Children will experience greater satisfaction
and success in painting if they work with good brushes.
Use a portfolio to store and protect your student’s artworks and to
document progress in the course. Save all your student’s flat artwork
in the portfolio. Save sculptures in a safe place.
At the end of each unit, you will need to gather the artwork created
during that unit for the unit assessment. For more convenient access,
you may want to store artwork from each unit in a separate folder within
the portfolio or sort artwork by unit with paper clips.
You can purchase a portfolio from an arts and crafts or office supply
store, or you can easily make one by using one of the following methods:
Put two pieces of poster board together. Tape
three of the sides to make a flat portfolio. Use a cardboard or plastic box large enough to
hold 12" x 18" artworks. If you wish, have your student help
you decorate the sides of the box.
When storing works in the portfolio:
Artworks created with colored chalks, oil pastels,
or other materials subject to smearing need special handling. Before you
put them in the portfolio, place them in a piece of folded newspaper or
in two sheets of large newsprint. Within the portfolio, create a separate folder
to hold all your student’s self-portraits from one grade to the next.
You can use a manila file folder or a piece of poster board folded in
half. On the back of each self-portrait, include your student’s name,
and the date it was completed. As time passes, you’ll enjoy looking back
over the self-portraits and seeing a visual record of growth and artistic
progress.
Many lessons encourage your student to draw in a sketchbook, just as
many professional artists do to record ideas and observations.
Different types of books can serve as a sketchbook. You can buy a sketchbook
at an art supply store, or you can fill a three-ring binder with loose
paper. Your student can use the front and back of the paper to create
drawings with a pencil and coloring materials, such as crayons, colored
pencils, oil pastels, paint, and markers.
After an initial sketchbook lesson in the first unit, your student will
have many opportunities to draw in his or her sketchbook in Beyond the
Lesson activities. You might also encourage your student to draw in his
or her sketchbook whenever he or she finishes an art project early and
has extra time, or whenever the time seems right. To prompt creative thinking,
your student can choose an idea from a list of sketchbook
ideas. If you wish, you can print the sketchbook ideas and tape or
staple them to the inside cover of your student’s sketchbook. |
