Sketchbooks
Third grade students will keep an art class sketchbook during the school year. This ongoing journal will be a place for student to make notes about famous artists, practice drawing techniques, and learn about the Elements and Principles of Art. This year long unit helps to accompany classroom lessons and develops higher order thinking and support creativity. The content in their classroom sketchbook will be an assessment for learning, with regular critiques and teacher reviews. The students will be expected to choose the appropriate paper for their sketchbook, and use the correct tools for the materials.
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Key Assignments in Sketchbooks
One of the first things students write in the book is to make a pledge to use our sketchbooks for exploration. We pledge not to “cross out a drawing” and to use the sketchbook for visual problem solving.
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Essential Questions that frame this curriculum unit
Q.) How is a sketchbook an ideal assessment tool for elementary art?
A.) See Assessments
Q.)What can a sketchbook teach us about our own processes of researching and making art?
A.) See Pre-Assessment Activities: Using Surveys and KWL Charts
Unit Questions that focus on the subtopics covered in the unit and are aligned with the standards students will be mastering in the unit.
Q.) How can we use a sketchbook to solve visual problems?
A.) See Victorian House Activity: A Technology-based Nonlinguistic Assignment
Q.) How can we use a sketchbook to learn the Elements of Art?
A.) See Vocabulary Activities: Teaching Art Vocabulary Using Technology
Content Questions that focus on the knowledge that students should gain as part of the unit. These questions should focus on the Knowledge "learning targets."
Q.) Why should we create a sketchbook to practice and explore art media and processes?
A.) See What are our Third Grade Sketchbooks?
Q.) How can sketchbooks help sharpen our critical reasoning skills in order to develop unique ideas for artistic investigation?
A.) See Pre-Assessment Activities: Using Surveys and KWL Charts
Technology Questions closely aligned with the technology standards you will be covering in the unit. Your Technology questions could be at the level of Essential Questions (focused on the Big Ideas about using technology), or could be similar to the Unit Questions (focused on the subtopics.)
Q.) How can we use internet research to develop an understanding of how artists can generate ideas?A.) See Online Resources for Students and Teachers
Q.) In what ways can technology help support our learning about artists and art movements?
A.) See Technology Planning Matrix
Q.) How is a sketchbook an ideal assessment tool for elementary art?
A.) See Assessments
Q.)What can a sketchbook teach us about our own processes of researching and making art?
A.) See Pre-Assessment Activities: Using Surveys and KWL Charts
Unit Questions that focus on the subtopics covered in the unit and are aligned with the standards students will be mastering in the unit.
Q.) How can we use a sketchbook to solve visual problems?
A.) See Victorian House Activity: A Technology-based Nonlinguistic Assignment
Q.) How can we use a sketchbook to learn the Elements of Art?
A.) See Vocabulary Activities: Teaching Art Vocabulary Using Technology
Content Questions that focus on the knowledge that students should gain as part of the unit. These questions should focus on the Knowledge "learning targets."
Q.) Why should we create a sketchbook to practice and explore art media and processes?
A.) See What are our Third Grade Sketchbooks?
Q.) How can sketchbooks help sharpen our critical reasoning skills in order to develop unique ideas for artistic investigation?
A.) See Pre-Assessment Activities: Using Surveys and KWL Charts
Technology Questions closely aligned with the technology standards you will be covering in the unit. Your Technology questions could be at the level of Essential Questions (focused on the Big Ideas about using technology), or could be similar to the Unit Questions (focused on the subtopics.)
Q.) How can we use internet research to develop an understanding of how artists can generate ideas?A.) See Online Resources for Students and Teachers
Q.) In what ways can technology help support our learning about artists and art movements?
A.) See Technology Planning Matrix