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Lessons 1-2: Creating Trace Fossils
Duration: 2 class periods
Standard
1:. Recognizes and uses the visual arts as
a form of communication. Selects visual images for works of art to communicate ideas.
Standard 2: Knows and applies elements of art and principles of design. Identifies primary colors.
Standard 3: Knows
and applies the use of tools, materials, techniques, and processes. Demonstrates appropriate used of tools and materials. Demonstrates instructed techniques and processes.
Standard 4: Demonstrates
an understanding of art in relation to history, culture, and community. Produces art that has
been influenced by aspects of history. Produces art that has been influenced by
aspects of culture. Produces art that has been influenced by aspects of
community.
Standard 5: Critiques
works of art through analysis, assessment, and evaluation. Describes/shows similarities and differences between works of art. Describes the mood and/or feeling in works of art. Explains personal likes and dislikes about works of art.
Assessment:
Grading Rubric
Materials: pencil, sketchbook, blinder card, found object for
the drawing ritual,
fossil dough (double or triple the batch for the class-recipe
below), wax paper for each student, found objects to press into the
dough, scrap magazine, newspaper or old telephone book paper for
wiping, black or brown tempera paint, brush, white or clear glue, water container, paper
towels, newspaper to cover table
Activities
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Drawing Ritual in
sketchbook- Look at this site for Rituals
to Start an Art Class. This is a five minute sketch in your
sketchbook.
Use a blinder card (place the pencil through a hole in the
center of a 8 x 8 inch card). Only look down on
your paper to reposition your pencil. Finish the drawing using
your blinder. Remove the blinder and use your VALUE
SCALE to add values to your found object. Look at Unit 1,
lesson #8 to create a value scale if you haven't done so. If you squint at
your object the darkest values seem to "pop" out. Color
the darkest or #5 value first. Finish adding your other
values. Put the date in your sketchbook.
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Watch the
Fossil Video Introduction. What
are fossils and how are they made?
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Fossil
Lesson Plan with two Fossil Dough recipes for the
classroom.
To make this lesson more creative, double or triple the amount
of dough per student. Take a ball of dough and flatten a bit.
Etch your name into the bottom side of the dough with a tool or
paper clip. Turn it right side up.
Have assorted materials to press into the
flattened dough such as leaves, shells or other found objects.
Take care to position the objects in an interesting way, and if
possible, overlap an object or two.
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Paint the dough with white or
clear liquid glue to seal for the next step. Set the dough aside
to dry overnight.
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Try this to create dark imprints
which are natural looking: With dark tempera paint such as black
or brown, paint over the entire fossil.
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Take old magazine paper or
newspaper and hold this flat in your palm. Sweep over your
fossil to wipe the extra dark paint off the fossil many times until the paper is dirty. Throw away the dirty
paper in the trash can before you switch to a clean paper.
Switch papers until the outer area of the dough is almost clean.
You may leave the imprints dark, or you may wipe inside the
imprints to lighten. Do not over wipe so that you cannot see
your imprint outlines. You should see the outlines of the fossil
imprints stand out.
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When this is dry place it on a
table so everyone can see your fossil print. Good job!
Differentiation
Support: Fossil
Detective Audio Leveled Reader
Here is an easy
Trace Fossil Lesson Plan.
Extension: You may also use plaster to create
Trace Fossils. You will need an adult helper for this lesson.
How to make a
Fossil Cast using tuna cans, clay and plaster.
Lessons 3-4: Draw a Fossil
Duration: 1-2 class period(s)
Standard
1:. Recognizes and uses the visual arts as
a form of communication. Selects visual images for works of art to communicate ideas.
Standard 2: Knows and applies elements of art and principles of design. Identifies primary colors.
Standard 3: Knows
and applies the use of tools, materials, techniques, and processes. Demonstrates appropriate used of tools and materials. Demonstrates instructed techniques and processes.
Standard 4: Demonstrates
an understanding of art in relation to history, culture, and community. Produces art that has
been influenced by aspects of history. Produces art that has been influenced by
aspects of culture. Produces art that has been influenced by aspects of
community.
Standard 5: Critiques
works of art through analysis, assessment, and evaluation. Describes/shows similarities and differences between works of art. Describes the mood and/or feeling in works of art. Explains personal likes and dislikes about works of art.
Assessment:
Grading Rubric
Materials: pencil,
fossils or fossil references, 9x12 drawing paper, thin black marker
and black ink pen, completed value scale
Vocabulary: contour lines, values
Activities
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You do not need to do a drawing
ritual today since you will be drawing all period.
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Put your fossil in front of you
to draw. If you do not have a fossil to look at you may
refer to this excellent
3D Photo Fossils Gallery
where you can view fossils from 3
angles. The Cenozoic period features body fossils of
crustaceans. The last photo is a dinosaur jawbone. You may look
at other fossil resources for your next drawing.
- Choose a fossil to draw
from your references. Make it large enough to fit the
9"x12" paper. Use thick and thin contour lines. Go over
your lines with thin black marker.
- Refer to your VALUE SCALE
in your sketchbook and add your middle and darkest values with
your pen. Use cross-hatching (or criss-cross lines) for
your darkest values, and hatching (strokes going in one
direction) for your middle value. Try to blend your darkest to
middle values for a smoother rounded effect.
TIP: Outlines or contour lines flatten the object and decrease spatial
depth. But for this
lesson it may be easier to add values with ink pen to the fossil
that is outlined with a marker. In 4th grade the students will
learn to add values to round an object without outlines.
- When you are satisfied put
your name and date on the bottom right corner of your paper.
Good job!
Differentiation
Support:
Extension:
Lessons 5-6: Clay Fossils
Duration: 2 class periods
Standard
1:. Recognizes and uses the visual arts as
a form of communication. Selects visual images for works of art to communicate ideas.
Standard 2: Knows and applies elements of art and principles of design. Identifies primary colors.
Standard 3: Knows
and applies the use of tools, materials, techniques, and processes. Demonstrates appropriate used of tools and materials. Demonstrates instructed techniques and processes.
Standard 4: Demonstrates
an understanding of art in relation to history, culture, and community. Produces art that has
been influenced by aspects of history. Produces art that has been influenced by
aspects of culture. Produces art that has been influenced by aspects of
community.
Standard 5: Critiques
works of art through analysis, assessment, and evaluation. Describes/shows similarities and differences between works of art. Describes the mood and/or feeling in works of art. Explains personal likes and dislikes about works of art.
Assessment:
Grading Rubric
Materials: pencil, sketchbook, blinder card, found object for
the drawing ritual, dinosaur
skull and fossil photos, air dry, oven or kiln clay, clay tools, wax
paper, writing paper
Activities
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Drawing Ritual in
sketchbook- Look at this site for Rituals
to Start an Art Class. This is a five minute sketch in your
sketchbook.
Use a blinder card (place the pencil through a hole in the
center of a 8 x 8 inch card). Only look down on
your paper to reposition your pencil. Finish the drawing using
your blinder. Remove the blinder and use your VALUE
SCALE to add values to your found object. If you squint at
your object the darkest values seem to "pop" out. Color
the darkest or #5 value first. Finish adding your other
values. Put the date in your sketchbook.
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Look at
Dinosaur Fossil Images
to view large
skulls and bones.
You may use other references of dinosaur bones. Choose your
favorite photo and write some information about this dinosaur on
some writing paper.
- Place a fist sized ball of clay
on your wax paper.
Begin by forming the basic skull shape from the photo. Do
not carve details yet.
- When the outside shape is the
way you like it use clay tools to cut into the clay and add detail
with assorted clay tools.
- When you have finished put the clay
away to dry. Follow directions on the clay package if
clay is to be fired in the kiln.
- When the clay has hardened or
has been fired in the kiln you may display this along with the
dinosaur information on a table outside the art room for all to
see!
Differentiation
Support:
Extension:
Lesson 7: Cave Art Mural
Duration: 1 class period
Standards-Based
Assessments
Standard 1:. Recognizes and uses the visual arts as
a form of communication. Selects visual images for works of art to communicate ideas.
Standard 2: Knows and applies elements of art and principles of design. Identifies primary colors.
Standard 3: Knows
and applies the use of tools, materials, techniques, and processes. Demonstrates appropriate used of tools and materials. Demonstrates instructed techniques and processes.
Standard 4: Demonstrates
an understanding of art in relation to history, culture, and community. Produces art that has
been influenced by aspects of history. Produces art that has been influenced by
aspects of culture. Produces art that has been influenced by aspects of
community.
Standard 5: Critiques
works of art through analysis, assessment, and evaluation. Describes/shows similarities and differences between works of art. Describes the mood and/or feeling in works of art. Explains personal likes and dislikes about works of art.
Assessment:
Grading Rubric
Materials:
pencil, sketchbook, blinder card, found object for
the drawing ritual, long tan or brown mural paper, photo
references of cave art animals, charcoal, brown and warm colored
chalk pastels
Vocabulary: pictograph- cave art painted on stone
Activities
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Drawing Ritual in
sketchbook- Look at this site for Rituals
to Start an Art Class. This is a five minute sketch in your
sketchbook.
Use a blinder card (place the pencil through a hole in the
center of a 8 x 8 inch card). Only look down on
your paper to reposition your pencil. Finish the drawing using
your blinder. Remove the blinder and use your VALUE
SCALE to add values to your found object. If you squint at
your object the darkest values seem to "pop" out. Color
the darkest or #5 value first. Finish adding your other
values. Put the date in your sketchbook.
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Here is a
brief history of
CAVE ART. You may look at the gallery of cave art as well.
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What
materials were used to create the cave paintings?
The people didn't
have paintbrushes and paints to work with. Instead, they used
animal fat, clay and charcoal as paints and feathers, sticks and
their fingers to paint with.
What kinds of animals were
painted? For the answer look
HERE.
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Try to draw some
animals that remind you of cave art. Look for some photo references of the animals of cave
art, such as horses, deer, bison, lions, hyenas...Do not copy the cave
art but use photos of an animal that was used in cave art
(unless it is extinct like the mammoth). Simplify this photo in
your sketchbook. Cave art is very simple and stylish!
Draw a few more simple drawings of some animals in your
sketchbook. Choose your favorite drawing. You will use this
drawing for your mural art.
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Have mural
paper taped to a wall in the school hallway or tape it to the
floor. Use a pencil
to outline your sketchbook drawing on the mural paper anywhere
you'd like.
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Then use charcoal and go over your pencil lines.
You may OVERLAP animals. Add
brown and earth or warm tones with chalk pastels in your animal. You may
also add color outside you animal and around the border of your
mural paper. You may add more animals on your mural paper if you
can.
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If you
prefer to use a separate sheet of 12"x18" tan or manila paper for your
cave art instead of mural paper then do so.
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When the
mural has enough pictographs hang this outside the art room.
This will please your viewers!
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View the student
ART GALLERY for some fabulous
cave art.
Differentiation
Support:
Extension: Here is more information on the
Lascaux Caves.
Lesson 8: Rock Art-The Lascaux
Caves
Duration: 1 class period
Standards-Based
Assessments
Standard 1:. Recognizes and uses the visual arts as
a form of communication. Selects visual images for works of art to communicate ideas.
Standard 2: Knows and applies elements of art and principles of design. Identifies primary colors.
Standard 3: Knows
and applies the use of tools, materials, techniques, and processes. Demonstrates appropriate used of tools and materials. Demonstrates instructed techniques and processes.
Standard 4: Demonstrates
an understanding of art in relation to history, culture, and community. Produces art that has
been influenced by aspects of history. Produces art that has been influenced by
aspects of culture. Produces art that has been influenced by aspects of
community.
Standard 5: Critiques
works of art through analysis, assessment, and evaluation. Describes/shows similarities and differences between works of art. Describes the mood and/or feeling in works of art. Explains personal likes and dislikes about works of art.
Assessment:
Grading Rubric
Materials: pencil, sketchbook, blinder card, found object for
the drawing ritual
Activities
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Drawing Ritual in
sketchbook- Look at this site for Rituals
to Start an Art Class. This is a five minute sketch in your
sketchbook.
Use a blinder card (place the pencil through a hole in the
center of a 8 x 8 inch card). Only look down on
your paper to reposition your pencil. Finish the drawing using
your blinder.
 Remove the blinder and use your VALUE
SCALE to add values to your found object. If you squint at
your object the darkest values seem to "pop" out. Color
the darkest or #5 value first. Finish adding your other
values. Put the date in your sketchbook.
- Read or listen to the audio book,
Rock Art From the Stone Age.
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Follow one of these lessons to create Rock
Art like those found at the Lascaux caves:
Lascaux Cave Lessons.
Differentiation
Support:
Extension: Here is more information on the
Lascaux Caves.
Lesson 6:
Duration: 1 class period
Standards-Based
Assessments
Standard 1:. Recognizes and uses the visual arts as
a form of communication. Selects visual images for works of art to communicate ideas.
Standard 2: Knows and applies elements of art and principles of design. Identifies primary colors.
Standard 3: Knows
and applies the use of tools, materials, techniques, and processes. Demonstrates appropriate used of tools and materials. Demonstrates instructed techniques and processes.
Standard 4: Demonstrates
an understanding of art in relation to history, culture, and community. Produces art that has
been influenced by aspects of history. Produces art that has been influenced by
aspects of culture. Produces art that has been influenced by aspects of
community.
Standard 5: Critiques
works of art through analysis, assessment, and evaluation. Describes/shows similarities and differences between works of art. Describes the mood and/or feeling in works of art. Explains personal likes and dislikes about works of art.
Activities
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Differentiation
Support:
Extension:
Lesson 8:
Duration: 1 class period
Standards-Based
Assessments
Standard 1:. Recognizes and uses the visual arts as
a form of communication. Selects visual images for works of art to communicate ideas.
Standard 2: Knows and applies elements of art and principles of design. Identifies primary colors.
Standard 3: Knows
and applies the use of tools, materials, techniques, and processes. Demonstrates appropriate used of tools and materials. Demonstrates instructed techniques and processes.
Standard 4: Demonstrates
an understanding of art in relation to history, culture, and community. Produces art that has
been influenced by aspects of history. Produces art that has been influenced by
aspects of culture. Produces art that has been influenced by aspects of
community.
Standard 5: Critiques
works of art through analysis, assessment, and evaluation. Describes/shows similarities and differences between works of art. Describes the mood and/or feeling in works of art. Explains personal likes and dislikes about works of art.
Activities
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Differentiation
Support:
Extension:
Lesson 9:
Duration: 1 class period
Enduring Understanding:
Essential Questions:
Activities
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Differentiation
Support:
Extension:
Lesson 10:
Duration: 1 class period
Enduring Understanding:
Essential Questions:
Activities
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Differentiation
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