Digital Unit Plan Template Unit Title: Artist Standoff Content Area: Visual Arts

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

Name: Grace Choi Grade Level: 9-12

1.3 Research and analyze the work of an artist and write about the artist's distinctive style and its contribution to the meaning of the work.
Big Ideas:

What makes a particular artist great? Are there any objective choices when it comes to art? How can I learn from the lives of these artists? Artist presentations will expose students to a great number of different artists.

Unit Goals and Objectives:

Students will learn and use critical thinking and problem solving skills through creating a graphic organizer. Students will learn how to successfully critique a work of art. Students will be able to discern what is important and useful in their research, and include it in their artist reports. Productivity and accountability will be exhibited through students' use of time and response to due dates, and assignments. Initiative and Self-Direction will be shown through students' investigation and reports.

Unit Summary:

Students will research two artists of their choice. They will have to report on the biography of the artist, the artists' works, and influences. After researching both artists and using compare and contrast methods to come to a conclusion, the student will choose one artist as the "winner", hence the name Artist Standoff. When the entire class is finished with their reports the next step is the presentation of their work. Here they will share to the class the lives and works of both artists and why they chose one over the other in the end. This will expose the students to a multitude and variety of artists throughout history and around the world.
Assessment Plan: Entry-Level: Formative: Summative:

Brainstorm Which two artists do you want Flashcards and quiz on the Elements of Art to research?
Lesson 1 Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence:

Research Report Artist Standoff Research Reports

Students will learn how to successfully critique a work of art.

Students will have completed listening to the teacher lecture and correctly and accurately filled out the guided notes.
Acceptable Evidence:

Instructional Strategies: Communication Collection Collaboration Presentation Organization Interaction

Lesson Activities:

Students will listen and watch the teacher lecture Students will complete guided notes provided while listening to the teacher lecture

Lesson 2 Student Learning Objective:

Initiative and SelfDirection will be shown through students' investigation and reports.

Students will have successfully answered and completed all of the questions on the Webercise worksheet. They will have visited the websites provided to answer these questions in an acceptable manner.

Instructional Strategies: Communication Collection Collaboration Presentation Organization Interaction

Lesson Activities:

Students will complete a Webercise They will follow the links provided on the Webercise to answer the questions included on the worksheet. Each website contains information that has questions following it that pertain to that particular website and students will be able to successfully complete all of the questions by going to the corresponding websites.

Lesson 3 Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence:

Students will learn and use critical thinking and problem solving skills through creating a graphic organizer.

Students will create a graphic organizer using the website www.popplet.com following all of the instructions to the assignment provided. All of the requirements are met and the graphic organizer is presented in a visually pleasing manner.

Instructional Strategies: Communication Collection Collaboration Presentation Organization Interaction

Lesson Activities:

Students will use the information they collected for their research reports to create a graphic organizer that contains the following information: Three facts of basic information, including dates. A minimum of three pieces of artwork and graphics to represent these pieces, including dates. Analysis of one piece of artwork from EACH artist and present three observations for each.

Unit Resources:

Fine Art Search Engines: Art Cyclopedia.com: The Fine Art Search Engine (www.artcyclopedia.com) Art Net: Biographies and Works of Artists (www.artnet.com) Art Web Search: Art Search Engine (www.artwebsearch.com) Biography.com: A Search Engine for Biographies (www.biography.com) Image Search Engines: Art Quest: The Quick Search for Art (www.artquest.com) Encyclopedia Britannica: Image Galleries and Biographies (www.britannica.com) Web Gallery of Art: Image Collection, Virtual Museum (www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/search.html) Artist Specific Websites: Michelangelo Buonnaroti: A Site Dedicated to Michelangelo and His Works (www.michelangelo.com/buon/bio-index2.html) Leonardo Da Vinci: A Biography and His Complete Works (www.leonardoda-vinci.org/) Salvador Dali: A Virtual Gallery of Salvador Dali (www.virtualdali.com/) Vincent Van Gogh Gallery: An Overview of Van Gogh and His Art (www.vangoghgallery.com/) Frida Kahlo: A Website of Frida Kahlos Biography and Art (www.fridakahlo.com) Pablo Picasso: Paintings, Quotes, and Biography (www.pablopicasso.org/)

Digital Interactive Sites: Jackson Pollock: A Digital Interactive Site, Painting with Jackson Pollock (www.jacksonpollock.org/)
Useful Websites:

Google: Search Engine (www.google.com) Wikipedia: Information tool (www.wikipedia.org) Rubistar: Rubric and Assessment Creator (http://rubistar.4teachers.org/) Quizstar: Quiz Creator (http://quizstar.4teachers.org/) Quizlet: Quiz and Flashcard Resource (www.quizlet.com) Prezi: An Online Tool for Creating Presentations (www.prezi.com) Popplet: An Online Tool for Creating Graphic Organizers (www.popplet.com)