Sixth+Grade,+2011-12

media type="custom" key="10076665"BACK TO 2011-2012 Archive 2010-11 Archive [|Sixth Grade Core Knowledge] SIDE by SIDE TEACHER (or SUBSTITUTE) RESPONSIBILITY:
 * 1) Be Present and involved in teaching art lesson - pitching in when appropriate
 * 2) Use BEST classroom management practices
 * 3) Sit within close proximity of students during demonstrations
 * 4) Make all possible connections with ART lesson and your CURRICULUM
 * 5) Participate in your own art-making along with your students
 * 6) Help specialist when asked - the art room is a paper-grading-free zone!

__**Language Arts CORE CURRICULUM MAP FOR INTEGRATION, 2011-12:**__
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 * < __** FEBRUARY **__ ||< __** MARCH **__ ||< __** APRIL **__ ||< __** MAY **__ ||< __** JUNE **__ ||
 * Below are the suggested target understandings and skills for sixth grade visual arts:**
 * Making Art and Expressing Meaning in Art **- Express a variety of moods by controlling the overall value of a work of art. Create more realistic cast shadows and shading. Create an illusion of depth by applying the rules of linear perspective and aerial perspective. Prepare and organize steps and materials to create art.**
 * Appreciating and Decoding Meaning in Art **- Observe and learn how artists have used the horizon line as the eye-line. Learn the three properties of color and some basic color relationships. Discuss how social conditions; politics, available technologies and other contextual forces may have influenced important artworks.**
 * [|VISUAL ARTS CORE CURRICULUM]**

**GUIDEBOOK 6TH GRADE [[file:g6.pdf]]**
WEEKLY LESSONS: MAY:


 * Islamic Art & Calligraphy**

[|CHERRY BLOSSOM ART] Haiku Print Out
 * WEEK OF MAY 12TH:**
 * ISLAMIC ART PPT: [[file:Islamic art -.pptx]]**
 * WEEK OF APRIL 9TH:**
 * Objectives:**
 * 1) Students will compare and contrast the significance of the cherry blossom compared to the blossoms of other fruit bearing trees.
 * 2) Using a blowing technique, students will create a 2D form of a tree with branches using the oak gall ink made from scratch by the 5th and 6th Graders.
 * 3) Blossoms are added to the branch tips using "tinted" reds and shades of pink.
 * 4) [|Fibonacci numbers] are introduced/reviewed to incorporate for number of petals.
 * 5) Introduce and write Haiku poetry to compliment artwork

media type="custom" key="14116592" Week of March 5th and 12th: Paintmaking Week of February 27th: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! LESSON: "I like to PAINT Green Eggs & Ham"
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2.Introduce TINT - when you add white or lighter colors to a bold color, you change the TINT. When you add a darker color or Black to a bold color you change the SHADE (upper grades may add blues) 3.Walk students through the following drawing steps and introduce "CROSS HATCHING" (my turn, your turn style), using black sharpees. 4. Demonstrate mixing white and yellow paint with green to make at least 5 different tints of green. Just squirt a little bit of water in the center of the paint trays or students will use too much water Paint the green eggs and ham. example:

LESSON 1: Color Wheel Pinwheels LESSON 2: Color Game Cards Starter Warm & Cool Color Paintings & Weavings Lesson 3: Monochromatic Secondary Colors & High Art Replica Blackline of Concentric Circles Lesson 3: Collage Template for Warm & Cool Colors
 * Week of January 23rd - Week of February 13th: COLOR THEORY **

Color Fact Sheets

LESSON 3: Color Theory PPT


 * DECEMBER 5TH & DECEMBER 12TH: Tin ART**


 * Exploring Family Crest[[file:Coat of Arms.ppt]] STudents will design their own family crest and create an original from that design using Mexican Tin Art techniques**

media type="custom" key="11245538" September 12th: American Flag Johnson....Mushrooms


 * October 1st: Microorganisms:**
 * HOMEWORK VIDEO media type="custom" key="10342374"**
 * **bacteriamedia type="custom" key="10342238"**
 * 1) [|Drawing bacteria]
 * [|fungi]media type="custom" key="10342962"
 * protist cell media type="custom" key="10342344"
 * virusmedia type="custom" key="10342390"