Lesson Plan

Title:___Inventors Center_____________________________

Length:_________________________________

Note: Before you plan and write art experiences; pre-assess your students based on the proposed concepts, enduring understandings, and objectives
of the unit/lesson(s). You may also gather this information from (previous) teachers, by reviewing already completed art work, consulting curriculum
materials, etc., to get a better understanding of what content students already know and what they will need to know to be successful.
Pre-Assessment:
This will need to be done prior to teaching your lesson. Outline the method you will use to determine the skill/knowledge level of your students based on the concepts/enduring understandings/objectives of the lesson.
(Hint: turn these into questions.) Be specific in describing what you would recognize as proficient skill/knowledge.

The students will be asked about how many of them have done 3D artwork before and what that meant. They will also be asked about they would
turn something flat, like a piece of paper or cardboard into something 3 dimensional like a cylinder, a cone, or a cube to start to push them to think
in different building ways

Performance:
What will students accomplish as a result of this lesson? This can be presented to students in the form of a story. In this narrative the students take on a role and create a learning product about a specific topic for a
certain audience. (RAFT Role / Audience / Format / Topic)

You are out at recess one day and you discover a family of grasshoppers living in the corner of the playground and you and your friend decide to
make them their own little mini playground that they can hang out and play in and you have to build it nice and small for them to enjoy and sturdy
enough for it to last outside

Concepts:
List the big ideas students will be introduced to in the lesson. These ideas are universal, timeless and transferrable. Examples of concepts used in art might include: Composition, Patterns, Technique, Rhythm, Paradox,
Influence, Style, Force, Culture, Space/Time/Energy, Line, Law/Rules, Value, Expressions, Emotions, Tradition, Symbol, Movement, Shape, Improvisation, and Observation Look for concepts in the standards, content
specific curriculum, etc.

Engage and persist

Exploration
Influence
Inspiration
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Enduring Understanding (s):

Enduring Understandings show a relationship between two or more concepts; connected with an active verb. The best enduring understandings not only link two or more concepts; but demonstrate why this relationship
is important. Like concepts, they are timeless, transferrable and universal. Align Standards, Prepared Graduate Competencies (PGCs) and Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) to Enduring Understandings.

Students will practice decision-making processes by having full control over their artwork
Students will engage and persist in their artwork by taking something challenging and unfinished and pushing themselves to completion.

Standards: (All lessons should address all standards.)

1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend
2. Envision and Critique to Reflect
3. Invent and Discover to Create
4. Relate and Connect to Transfer
Objectives/Outcomes/Learning Targets:
Objectives describe a learning experience with a condition behavior (measurable) criterion. Aligned to: Blooms Standards GLEs - Art learning and, when appropriate, Numeracy, Literacy and Technology.
Should be written as: Objective. (Blooms: _____ - Standard: _____ - GLE: _____ -Art learning: _____ -Numeracy, Literacy, and/or Technology)

Given a choice of material and medium TSWBAT make decisions that push them as an artist - Observe and Learn to Comprehend
Given miscellaneous building materials TSWBAB stretch and explore their understanding of 3D by playing with different building techniques
- Invent and discover to create
Given their completed work TSWBAT reflect on what they made by explaining and sharing their work with the class
-Envision and Critique to Reflect
Given their started work, TSWBAT engage and persist on their artwork to create a finished piece that they care about
- Invent and discover to create

Differentiation:

Explain specifically how you have addressed the needs of exceptional students at both end of the skill and cognitive scale. Describe the strategies you will use for students who are already proficient and need growth
beyond what you have planned for the rest of the class, as well as modifications for students with physical and/or cognitive challenges. Students must still meet the objectives.

Differentiation:
(Multiple means for students to access content and
multiple modes for student to express understanding.)

Extensions for depth and complexity:

Access (Resources and/or Process)

Expression (Products and/or Performance)

I will differentiate for Kindergarten by having all of their stuff

in boxes, pre cut up for each table. 1st and second will not
be shown how to score and they will be given more
instruction about hole punches and how to utilize brads and
homemade tape.

TAB/Studio Art is all about differentiation and

accommodation. The students have access to multiple
mediums and they get full choice about which
materials they use and what they decide to make.

Access (Resources and/or Process)

Expression (Products and/or Performance)

The 4th and 5th graders will be given more

demonstrations about scoring and different ways of
manipulating and attaching cardboard.
Literacy:
List terms (vocabulary) specific to the topic that students will be introduced to in the lesson and describe how literacy is integrated into the lesson.

The students will be able to discuss the challenges and triumphs they had when creating their artwork to a peer and they will relay what they have been told to
the class at large.
Vocab: Inventor, Scoring, Manipulation, Miscellaneous, Brad (paper fasteners), slits

Materials:
Must be grade level appropriate. List everything you will need for this lesson, including art supplies and tools. (These are the materials students will use.) List all materials in a bulleted format.

Cardboard
Scissors
Glue
Paper Strips
Various materials for building (popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, brads, foam, etc.)
Legos
Oil based Clay
Blocks

Hole punches

Resources:
List all visual aids and reference material (books, slides, posters, etc. Be specific; include title, artist, etc. Make reference to where the material can be found. (These are the resources used by the teacher to
support/develop the lesson.) List all resources in a bulleted format.

A cardboard attachments poster will be placed above the inventors center to remind students about different ways they can work with cardboard
(made by the teacher)

Preparation:
What do you need to prepare for this experience? List steps of preparation in a bulleted format.

- Create a cardboard manipulation and attachments poster

- Create the inventors center, put all of the miscellaneous items and tools in the inventors center cart
- Create size box
- Create sample pieces
- Cut cardboard
- Cut paper strips

Safety:
Be specific about the safety procedures that need to be addressed with students. List all safety issue in a bulleted format.

Students will be thoroughly versed in scissor safety when doing things like scoring or cutting very thick cardboard and they will be told not to poke holes with
scissors and to only use the hole punches for that.

Action to motivate/Inquiry Questions:

Describe how you will begin the lesson to stimulate students interest. How will you pique their curiosity and make them interested and excited about the lesson? What inquiry questions will you pose? Be specific
about what you will say and do to motivate students and get them thinking and ready to participate. Be aware of the varying range of learning styles/intelligences of your students. Some ideas might include: telling a story,
posing a series of questions, role-playing, etc.

Students will be told that we are opening a new center and will be told/shown all the different material choices they have with that new center.

Ideation/Inquiry:
Ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas, where an idea is understood as a basic element of thought that can be visual, concrete or abstract. List and describe inquiry
questions and processes you will engage students in to help them develop ideas and plans for their artwork.

TAB/Studio art is all about ideation through playing and exploring with materials, they will gather ideas from the demonstration and from their peers and from
the materials themselves. Then they will simply start making and let the ideas come to them and often times some of their early projects will act as the
ideation process until they figure out what they really want to do.

Instruction:
Give a detailed account (in bulleted form) of what you will teach. Be sure to include approximate time for each activity and instructional methodology: skills, lecture, inquiry, etc. Include motivation and
ideation/inquiry where appropriate; including what student will understand as a result of the art experience

Day
1

Instruction - The teacher will... (Be specific about what concepts,

information, understandings, etc. will be taught.) Identify
instructional methodology. KNOW (Content) and DO (Skill)

Learning - Students will... i.e.: explore ideation by making connections,

comparing, contrasting; synthesize possibilities for each painting
technique; etc. (Be specific about what will be the intended result of the
instruction as it relates to learning.) UNDERSTAND

Time

1. Students will arrive and sit down.

2. They will be asked about what they made last week
and told that we will be opening up a new center.
3. The different stations of the inventors center will be
discussed (legos, blocks, clay, and building section)
4. A detailed explanation of the inventors center will be
given including where everything is, how it should be
put away, etc.
5. Cardboard will be on the bottom shelf, miscellaneous
items will be on the middle shelf (foam, brads,
popcicle sticks, pipe cleaners, buttons, etc.) and
scissors, homemade tape, size box, and hole punches
will be on the top.
6. A demonstration on cardboard attachments and
manipulation will be given including cutting
cardboard, scoring (only with 3rd through 5th),
homemade tape (which is a strip of paper that you put
glue on and then hold in place with clothes pins), and
attaching pieces perpendicularly.
7. A scissors safety explanation will be given and highly

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stressed with the younger students (they will not be

allowed to score at all with adult scissors)
The teacher will then discuss the number limits for
students at each station and why they have those limits
(space, materials, etc.)
Storage will then be discussed and the size box will be
introduced to the students and explained that they may
not build anything bigger than the box to insure we
have a place to store it and to make sure it can get
home.
Students will then be able to choose what medium
they would like to work with and grab their materials
We will clean up, each student putting away whatever
they got out and they are responsible for those
materials.
They will store their work on the shelves, the teacher
will remind the students that artists often come back to
their work to engage and persist and look at it with
fresh eyes
(if we have time) the students will find a person to
share with that was at a different table then them and
discuss a challenge that they overcame when doing
their work.
The teacher will ask students about what their partner
said and the artwork that they made today

Day
2
Day
3
Student reflective/inquiry activity:
Sample questions and activities (i.e. games, gallery walk, artist statement, interview) intended to promote deeper thinking, reflection and refined understandings precisely related to the grade level expectations. How will
students reflect on their learning? A participatory activity that includes students in finding meaning, inquiring about materials and techniques and reflecting about their experience as it relates to objectives, standards and
grade level expectations of the lesson.)

Why did you do that?

What challenges did you face in your work?
How did you make that?
What was your idea behind that?

What was the greatest success you felt about your work?

The teacher will go around from student to student asking questions about their work such as the questions above. At the end of the day students
will have time to share with their peers (depending on how well they clean up) in a variety of ways. Either a gallery walk where they see what
everyone in the class has made, or a partner share where they explain what they made and the teacher will ask students to share about what their
partner made, or they could just stand in front of the class and explain their project and receive prompting questions from their teacher or their
peers so that they really reflect on what they have made.
Post-Assessment (teacher-centered/objectives as questions):

Post-Assessment Instrument:

Have students achieved the objectives and grade level expectations specified in your lesson plan?

How well have students achieved the objectives and grade level expectations specified in your lesson plan?
Include your rubric, checklist, rating scale, etc.

Have the students explored and pushed themselves as an artist?

It is a checklist I do every week with 3 different criteria. Using a

check, check plus, and check minus grading scale

Have the students created a finished piece by engaging and

persisting?
Have the students reflected on their work by sharing with the class
and answering deeper level questioning?

-Stretch and Explore

-Engage and Persist
- Reflect

Self-Reflection:
After the lesson is concluded write a brief reflection of what went well, what surprised you, and what you would do differently. Specifically address: (1) To what extent were lesson objectives achieved? (Utilize
assessment data to justify your level of achievement.) (2) What changes, omissions, or additions to the lesson would you make if you were to teach again? (3)What do you envision for the next lesson? (Continued practice,
reteach content, etc.)

This lesson went pretty well, it was the first major center that I opened up with TAB that actually required a lot of instruction and some guidelines.
I instantly realized I made a planning mistake when I did this with my 1st graders and I tried to teach them to score and I realized that there was no
way they were going to be able to do that and stay safe, it was certainly a little too dangerous for their dexterity to be able to handle scissors that
way and not hurt themselves, I initially changed it to child scissors but then I realized that even that wasnt really safe. I realized this quickly and I
fixed it for the rest of the classes which was good. Doing this lesson for multiple classes allowed me to realize what I would have done differently
and immediately fix it with the next group of students.

Appendix: Include all handouts, prompts, written materials, rubrics, etc. that will be given to students.

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