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For Grades 2 –5 Learning Outcomes: Students will: Understand outstanding characteristics found in different people and how if effects them. Create a portrait of an important person in their life and a landscape of where they live. Understand the difference between a landscape and portrait. Teacher Planning: Time required: 45 - 60 minutes (can be finished for homework) Materials/resources: Paper, pencils, markers, paint, brushes Technology needed: None Ask: Think about their favorite person or hero. Are they famous all over the world? How many people know their hero? Do you think other people have the same hero as they do? Discuss with the students what characteristics make someone great. Are those the characteristics you would find in a hero? Create a list on the blackboard, from the student’s suggestions about positive and negative human characteristics. Let the students absorb the words for a few minutes. What characteristics found on the blackboard does their hero possess? Would they give their hero any more special abilities? Activity 1: Draw a portrait of you hero. Include visual information about: What kind of person they are? Where they are from? What they do? Do they help people? What do they look like? Are they tall? Small? Etc. Next, create a drawing of where they live. What kind of place would your hero live in? An apartment? A house? A mansion? A mobile home? A hotel? What color would it be? How many floors in the building? Are there stairs or an elevator? Are animals allowed? Is there a yard? Anything in the yard? How many windows? Is there a garage? A driveway? A mailbox? A sidewalk? Any plants or tress? Have each student present their two drawings to the class. Each should explain why they picked this person as your hero and how they try to emulate their behavior. Assessment: Students may be evaluated on understanding, implementation and participation of the activity. Use of imagination and quality of drawing can also be considered. New York Curriculum Alignment: Elementary The Visual Arts - Standards 1, 2, 3, 4 Social Studies – Standards 1, 3 ELA – Standards 1, 3, 4 |
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