Date: Teacher: Subject: Grade: Unit:

8/2016 Laura Price Art Kindergarten 1

Unit Title: Mondrian Primary Color Shapes

Unit Big Idea: Primary Colors

Standards to address in Unit:
MEANING and CREATIVE THINKING
VAKMC.1 Engages in the creative process to generate and visualize ideas.

b. Participates in-group brainstorming activity to generate ideas.

VAKMC.2 Formulates personal responses.

a. Generates visual images by manipulating art materials.

CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING

VAKCU.2 Views and discusses selected artworks, cultures, and artists (to include a
minimum of six artists/cultures per year, one of which should include a Georgia artist or
art form).

a. Talks about artworks of significant artists that have recognizable

subjects and themes.

PRODUCTION

VAKPR.1 Creates artworks based on personal experience and selected themes.

b. Identifies and creates artworks emphasizing one or more elements

(color, line, shape, form, texture, space, value).

VAKPR.2 Understands and applies media, techniques, and processes of two-dimensional

works of art (e.g., drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media) using tools and materials
in a safe and appropriate manner to develop skills.

a. Creates artworks that attempt to fill the space in an art composition.

c. Identifies and creates a variety of lines (e.g., straight, curved, angled,
broken, thick, thin, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, wavy, zigzag, scalloped
and spiral).
d. Identifies and creates a variety of shapes (e.g., geometric-circle,
square, triangle,rectangle, organic/free form shapes).
e. Creates works of art mixing and using color schemes (primary,
secondary, and neutral).

ASSESSMENT and REFLECTION

VAKAR.1 Discusses his or her own artwork and the artwork of others.
c. Uses art terms with emphasis on the elements of art: space, line,
shape, form, color, value, texture.

CONNECTIONS

VAKC.1 Applies information from other disciplines to enhance the understanding and
production of artworks.
a. Explores universal concepts (pattern, balance, etc.) and creates
artworks inspired by ideas from literature, science, music, and/or math.
Assessments:
Diagnostic: Formative: Summative:
Essential Question Quiz/Checklist Performance Task - Artwork
Major Unit concepts and vocabulary:
1. Lines straight, 2. Primary Colors 3. Shapes 4. 5.
angles, broken, Red, Yellow, Blue. geometric-
thick, thin, vertical, square, triangle,
horizontal, diagonal, rectangle, circle.
zigzag. Symbol
Organic

Student Supplies: Teacher Supplies:

8 x 8 White paper Teacher sample
strips of black paper various widths Mondrian prints
glue Mondrian PPT
crayons red, yellow, blue

Step 1: Teacher and students talk about what they will learn and do
(Communication of Learning Intentions)
Review the Essential Question & Standards:
What is a line?
What are primary colors?
What is the difference between Organic and Geometric?

Students will create a primary color collage/drawing using all 3 primary colors and at least
6 different kind of lines or shapes.

Step 2: How will you know when they have gotten it?
Getting students ready to learnOPENING

(Communication of Success
Criteria)
Students will have a collage that has 6 different kinds of lines/shapes created
out of black strips of paper that are glued down.
Students will have used all 3 primary colors and can identify them.

Step 3: Get the students interested (Build Commitment and Engagement)

Week 1
Show students the Mondrian PPT. Have students identify colors and lines that they
know.
Have students create different kinds of lines with their bodies by standing up and
moving. Can they join a friend and become a thick line? How can they use their
bodies to form a diagonal line?
Demonstrate how to cut and glue lines and how to create shapes on paper.
Week 2
Demonstrate how to fill the space of the composition using primary colors.
Quiz

Step 4: Give students new information (Teacher Presentation Strategies)

Teacher will introduce students to artist Piet Mondrian thru the PPT.
Teacher will draw different kinds of lines on the board and label them.
Students will watch teacher demonstrate the steps of the lesson.
Lecture
 PERIOD
WORK Step 5: Have students use the new information (Guided Practice )
Week 1
Students will use various widths of black construction paper to create a composition
on their paper. They need to use at least 6 different kinds of lines or shapes.
do the work
students to

Students need to use good craftsmanship when gluing one dot is a lot!
Releasing
make sense of CLOSING

Step 6: Make sure they can do it (Summary)

Teacher will observe and assist where necessary. Monitoring students so that they
successful glue their strips and use primary colors.

Step 7: Have students practice at home (Independent Practice)

EarlFini Helping students

Have students go home and identify what kinds of lines they can find in their environment.
y or sh their learning

If a student finishes early or needs an extra challenge

Have students go on a scavenger hunt in the classroom to identify primary colors and
lines.