January 18th

Grade/Subject: 2/Art Unit: Cold Weather Duration: 60 minutes

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES
General Learning Outcomes:
Students will focus on the 4 major components of visual learning; Reflections, Depiction,
Composition and Expression) through a variety of projects.

Specific Learning Outcomes:

4: MAIN FORMS AND PROPORTIONS: Students will learn the shapes of things as well as develop decorative
styles.
5: ACTIONS AND VIEWPOINTS: Students will increase the range of actions and viewpoints depicted
6: QUALITIES AND DETAILS: students will represent surface qualities
9: CRAFTSMANSHIP: Students will add finishing touches
10: Purpose 5: students will create an original composition or object based on supplied motivation
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students will:
1. Ensure they have a solid understanding of what hot & cold is.
2. Understand that it is not only related to the temperature outside
3. Begin to understand that we can control things to make it feel hot or cold
ASSESSMENTS
Observations: Key Questions:
 Students are listening attentively and  What is the difference between cold and warm
following along colors?
Students are participating in the art project and
being respectful to one another
Written/Performance Assessments:
 Warm and Cool color sheet
MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT
 Colored pencils
 paper template
 Sharpie
PROCEDURE
Introduction: 10 minutes
Hook/Attention Grabber: What is the difference between these two colors?
Have an image of something orange; and some thing blue…
How do they make you feel?
Wait for responses

Show them a picture of a color wheel- Ask them which half is the warm/cool colors?
Tell them that is what we will be working with today!
Have the students take out their wax crayons or pencil crayons (whatever they prefer)

Have them organize them into two piles – warm and cool colors
Body: 40 minutes
Learning Activity #1:
Students will: Trace their hands on both sides of the 
middle line. If they need help, they can have their elbow
partner help them trace their handprint. AFTER, Outline their tracings with a 
permanent marker.
Color their
hand with warm 
colors on one side and cool 
colors on the other. 
To make their hands more 
prominent,
color the backgrounds with the opposing colors.

Remind students that each box is to be a different color! You cannot all color them the same color. Otherwise it
will not look the way it is supposed to. IT can be different shades of green, but not all the same.

Closure: 10 minutes
Clean up!
Students will be given 5 minutes to finish their projects and clean up.
They are to hand in the project to me, with their names on it and then clean up all the tissue paper, help wipe
the glue off the desks and clean up the floor!
Consolidation/Assessment of Learning:
Students have a solid understanding of the differences between warm and cool colors; they notice that when
they are put together, they really stand out.