Grade 3

Health and Well Being

Objectives

Select, research and develop an image within the theme of fruits and vegetables
Explore and use photography, drawing, watercolours and oil pastels
Connect their ideas with artworks from other times, places and cultures
Identify and consider the context in which the artworks are made
Reflect on their own and others’ creative processes to inform their thinking

Still - Life (2018)

Students bring a piece of fruit or a vegetable to class and take a photograph of it. Print out the photographs (enlarge onto A3) and have the students use tracing paper to trace the contour lines. They paint their work with watercolours using the colour of the fruit and a complimentary colour in the background. Finally, they draw a variety of lines around the fruit (curved, zigzag, broken etc) using an oil pastel in both the complimentary and an adjacent to the compliment.

Still - Life (2019)

Drawing to investigate artworks from other times, places and cultures

(Yayoi Kusama's All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016)

Space

Objectives

Explore and use one-point perspective
Analyze connections between their own work and that of artists from other cultures, places and times
Reflect on their own and others’ creative processes

Perspective Drawing (2018)
Draw a city using one-point perspective. Paint using watercolours then outline with a black marker. Compare their final artwork with the work of another artists.

Resources: http://elementaryartfun.blogspot.com/2012/02/drawing-steps-for-one-point-perspective.html,
http://www.artsmudge.com/blog/2011/07/bursting shapes-basic-one-point-perspective-for-k-5

Expressing Ourselves

Objectives

Creating

Show awareness of the affective power of visual arts
Use a range of Surrealist techniques to solve problems during the creative process

Responding

Investigate a few key ideas about Surrealism
Explore the work of a few Surreal artists
Make informed interpretations of artworks

Surreal Drawings (2019)
Students made small drawings of their choice and then each chose three images to combine using either a die or picking them out of a hat. They then combined their drawings to create a "strange and unusual" Surreal character.

Here are some of the works they made using this Surreal technique:

Changes in Landforms

Objectives

Create a clay vessel using the coil building technique
Identify one or more geological conditions where clay is formed
Understand that clay was part of ancient human history
Use relevant and insightful questions to extend their understanding

Ceramic Coil Vessels (2018)

Students work individually to create a clay vessel using the coil hand building technique. They paint posters to investigate the geologic conditions where clay deposits form including soil horizons, continental and marine sediments, geothermal fields, volcanic deposits and weathering rock formations.

Resources: https://pubs.usgs.gov/info/clays/

Communities

Objectives

Demonstrate a strong exploration of issues, beliefs and values through arts
Use personal interests, beliefs or value as a starting point to create their art
Experiment with collage and markers
Develop and demonstrate control over materials
Experiment with dynamic combinations of colour, shape and line
Understand that audiences have different responses to pop art, cartoons and comics
Learn about the different organizations that exhibit and support the work of artists

Collage (2019) Students create a collage based on an Onomatopoeic word.