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3rd Grade Projects

 

1st Quarter – Line, Color and Shape

 

Collaborative Paintings  (1-2 class periods)

  • Create a composition using continuous lines to illustrate asymmetrical balance, rhythm and unity

  • Identify art that is non-representational

  • Explain how art enhances leisure time

 

Color Wheel Crayon Transfer  (1 class period)

  • Review and recreate the color wheel

  • Create a detailed line drawing using continuous and broken lines

  • Determine artwork to be non-representational, abstract, representational or realistic

 

Complementary Color Shape and Line Composition  (2 class periods)

  • Create artwork with crowded space

  • Compare and contrast continuous and broken lines

  • Identify and use complementary colors

  • Determine artwork to be non-representational, abstract, representational or realistic

  • Compare natural vs. man-made shapes

  • Collage with contrasting colors

 

Color Theory Butterflies  (2 class periods)

  • Create a paper collage that uses warm or cool colors

  • Collage using shape and color contrast

  • Create art that is symmetrical

  • Use organic and geometric (natural and man-made) shapes

  

Quilt Design Using Graph Paper (2 class periods)

  • Describe lines, shapes and colors in a composition

  • Explain how art enhances leisure time or is used in celebrations

  • Analyze the importance of functional art to Colonial culture

  • Analyze symmetrical vs. asymmetrical design

 

Quarter 2 – Implied and Real Textures

 

Printed Leaves on a Branch with Bird (2 class periods)

  • Explore printing using brayers on textured surfaces (leaves)

  • Analyze rhythm and unity

  • Determine if work is realistic or representational

 

Mexican Tin Art (3 class periods)     

-  Explain how art enhances leisure time or is used in celebrations

-  Create a composition using broken and continuous lines

-  Identify designs that are symmetrical or asymmetrical

-  Identify crowded or empty space

 

Cave Paintings (2-3 class periods) 

  • Paint with Tempera paint mimicking natural textures with a sponge

  • Explore the processes and subjects of Pre-Historic art

  • Interpret the artist’s intent

  • Describe how a composition uses lines, shapes and colors     

  • Create real and implied texture using paper

  • Identify realistic vs. representational art

 

Clay Pocket (2 class periods)

  • Use score & slip and additive clay methods

  • Compare natural vs. man-made textures

  • Describe sensory elements used in various art disciplines

 

 

Quarter 3 – Human Figure and Space

 

Calder Inspired Trapeze Diorama (4 class periods)

  • Create sculptures by bending and twisting

  • Discuss how theater uses art

  • Identify and create foreground, middle ground and background space in 2-D and 3-D works.

 

Wire Foil Figure with Shadow (2-3 class periods)

  • Create wire sculptures by bending, twisting and coiling

  • Analyze how the formal elements communicate a message

 

African Figures (3 class periods)

  • Collage with contrast using colors and textures

  • Use the wet on wet watercolor technique

  • Analyze rhythm and unity

  • Analyze the artwork of traditional African societies

  • Learn about current African American Artists

 

Quarter 4 – Weaving and Sculpture

 

Tube Sculptures (3 class periods)

  • Describe a composition using lines, shapes and colors in artworks

  • Develop essential questions from a formalist perspective

  • Identify and create asymmetrical or symmetrical balance

 

Sunflower Weaving  (2 class periods)

  • Weave with a warp, weft and knotting techniques

  • Identify realistic vs. representational artwork

  • Explore textile artists/careers

 

 

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