Students paint a still life, paying special attention to the elements of color and value and the principles of pattern and emphasis.

• Length: 6 35-minute class periods
• Grades: 1-3

Concepts/Objectives:

• Students create still life art, focusing on the elements of color and value as well as the principles of pattern and emphasis.
• Students analyze their work using elements of art and principles of design.

Resource Used:
Breakfast Still Life by Pieter Claesz

Students make and play homemade drums.

• Length: 1-2 class periods
• Grades: K-3

Concepts/Objectives:

• Students will begin to demonstrate an awareness of the elements of music.
• Students will experience music of diverse cultures, periods, and styles.

Resource Used:
“Grass Dance Song,” performed by Dennis Banks
From: Old Music for New Ears Program 19

Students create collages to explore the use of warm/cool colors, value, shade/tint, mood, balance, pattern, complementary colors, and overlapping colors and shapes.

• Length: 1-2 class periods
• Grades: 4-5

Concepts/Objectives:

• Students will make collages using the elements of art and principles of design.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of the terms collage, warm/cool colors, value, shade/tint, mood, balance, pattern, complementary, and overlapping.
• Students will become familiar with works by Picasso, Monet, Matisse, and Stuart Davis.

Resource Used:
Video: Warm and Cool Colors/Cut-Paper Collage Found On: Spectrum of Art
Artworks: Old Man with Guitar by Pablo Picasso, online at the Art Institute of Chicago Rouen Cathedral Series by Claude Monet, online at the Columbia University Visual Media Center

Students create warm- and cool-color animal collages in the style of Matisse.

• Length: 3 to 5 class periods
• Grades: 6-8

Concepts/Objectives:

• Students will describe, analyze, and interpret using art elements and principles of design.
• Students will understand the media of collage.
• Students will create collages using warm and cool colors.

Resource Used:
Warm and Cool Colors/Cut-Paper Collage
Found On: Spectrum of Art Part 1: Making Art

Students explore Greek functional art and create a design for a Greek-style krater.

• Length: 1 class period
• Grades: 6-8

Concepts/Objectives:

• Students will gain and demonstrate an understanding of the art elements of line and shape and the design principles of balance and movement.
• Students will explore an aspect of Greek classical art and determine its purpose.

Resource Used:
Calyx Krater by Python