Lesson Plan

Daily Lesson Plan for:Mr. Craig R. West
Course: Establishing A Visual Arts Studio Community, Who Is The Artist, Visual Literacy & The Visual Artist, Creating Art with the Art Elements & Principles / Date:
TBA / Length of Class:
52 Minute
Topic of Lesson: Unit 1: Establishing A Visual Arts Community/ Intro To Alice Software Program/Understanding Art (Day 1 out of5)
Essential Questions:
Essential Question 1: What is the impact and importance of establishing a Visual Arts Studio Community?
Essential Question 2: How does the virtual world of Alice help you to establish a Visual Arts Studio Community Portfolio, Artist’s Portfolio, Creating My Own Personal Art Gallery, Creating a Favorite Art Style Museum Gallery
Essential Question 3: What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support a Visual Arts Studio Community? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process in sustaining a Visual Arts Studio?
Essential Question 3: Who is the Visual Artist & What Can We Learn From The Visual Artist?
Essential Question 4: What is Visual Literacy & How is it Best Used By The Visual Artist and Viewer to Communicate and Read Meaningful Content in works of art?
Objective: The student will be able to:
  • use the Alice programming environment to create three Alice Files that promote a Visual Arts Community, Creating A Who Is The Artist Alice File, and A Visual Literacy Alice File that promotes reading and analyzing 1 or more works of art. Students will incorporate the following terms in their own personal Visual Arts Community File: Artist, Work of Art, Community, Art Elements, Art Principles.
  • use the Alice program to create a Visual Art Studio Community File in their Visual Arts Portfolio.
  • Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work that support a Visual Arts Studio.

Standards:
Materials: Textbook Chapter 1 Art In Your World Lessons 1-4 ArtTalk Rosalan Ragans, 9th Ed.
PowerPoint – Ch01Day1Slides1 with class notes
Chapter 1 ArtTalk Tutorials and Beginning Alice Tutorials
Hardware: Projector, Overhead Visuals
Key Terms:Visual Arts Studio, Community, Artists, Work of Art, Art Elements, Principles of Art, Visual Literacy

Procedure:

Warm-up/Preparation for Learning: (5 minutes)

  1. Pass out Alice Notes and Chapter1 ArtTalk Lesson Handouts

  1. Set up PowerPointAlice presentation – Chapter 1 Lesson Art In Your World

  1. Set up Alice Tutorial 1

Directed Assistance/Learning Activity: ( 30 minutes)

  1. Introduce The Importance of the Visual Arts Studio Community. Encourage students to directly engage in the habits of a visual artist. 5 minutes

  1. Discuss essential Visual Art questions. 5 minutes

  1. Use the power point presentation to motivate the use of Alice and to discuss how to open Alice and access the tutorials in creating a Visual Art Portfolio and Creating My Favorite Art Museum. 20 minutes

  1. Assign pairs for Chapter 1 Art In Your World Lessons 5 minutes

  1. Pairs continue to work on Alice Lesson Plan Tutorials 45 minutes

Closure/Reflection on Learning: (10 minutes) (Closure activities may be oral or written.)

  1. Explain how to create a new virtual world.

  1. Explain how to add objects to a virtual world.

  1. Name the different parts of the Alice programming environment and explain what each part does.
  2. Create Alice Files that incorporate Establishing A Visual Arts Community, Who Is The Artist, Visual Literacy & The Artist, and Using the Art Elements and Principles in creating works of art.

Assessment/Evaluation:

Methods Assessment Art In Your World Lessons 1-4
Alice Intro Journal Entries
Alice Rubric for Establishing A Visual Arts Community, Who Is the Artist, Visual Literacy & the Artist, and Using the Elements and Principles in creating works of art. All of the Alice File Creations will be digitally incorporated in the students Digital Portfolio.

Assignment:

Create an Alice World For a Visual Arts Community
Create an Alice World For Who Is A Visual Artist
Create an Alice World For Visual Literacy & The Artist
Complete Lesson Handouts for A Visual Arts Community

How does the virtual world of Alice relate to Art Concepts and Principles?

How does the virtual world of Alice Help Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work?