Drawing / Lesson Plan 1

 


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Unit: Art

Theme: Drawing

 

Introduction

Drawing happens when one makes a picture or diagram with a pencil, pen, or crayon rather than paint. For instance, "a series of charcoal drawings on white paper" are considered drawing. Modes of drawings can be broken down into three different types: realistic, symbolic, and expressive.

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Learning Objectives

  •  Understand why children face difficulties when drawing
  • Explain Edward's theory about left brain-right brain
  • Gain an awareness of the complexity of the brain 
  • Experience the importance of drawing for children


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WARM UP

Mindfulness

 

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Creative Storming

 

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 https://youtu.be/w46bWxS9IjY


Question 1

What do you think is the message in this video?

Why don't we say, I ..... with all my brain?

 

Creative Storming

Students simulate the creation of a shaped object and pass it to the next student. Each student changes the object using hand gestures.

 

Question 1

Write a reflection about the activity and explain how you thing it could help your students. 

 

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Main Lesson

 

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When one googles "why is drawing so hard?" One gets the following:

If you're wondering why is drawing hard, one important thing to know about drawing is that it requires involvement of the right side of the brain, a side people are not used to use that much. It can be very tricky to change the way you draw with your brain at first, but that needs to happen in order to draw well.Jul 11, 2017

Why is drawing hard? And what to do about it to draw better ... - SweetMonia

However...

after reading Jess Dorn's article Drawing on an Outdated Theory one concludes something different. Although it is sometimes said that our brain consists of a left hemisphere that excels in intellectual, rational, verbal, and analytical thinking and a right hemisphere that excels in sensory discrimination and in emotional, nonverbal, and intuitive thinking, in the normal brain, with extensive commissural interconnections, the interaction of the two hemispheres is such that we cannot dissociate clearly their specialized functions.

 

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How to Teach Drawing to Children

by Marvin Bartel

Observation drawing provides the method of choice.  Of course observation drawing is not the only form of good drawing practice, but it is often the best way to develop drawing skills.  Drawing from remembered experiences and drawing based on imagination are good to develop those aspects of thinking.  Copy work drawing is not encouraged, but only tolerated if it is self-initiated. Many self-taught artists have learned by copying because it was the only alternative they knew about. However, copy work is not the best way to learn to draw actual objects, animals, scenes, and people.

 

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Activity 1

Get in groups; each groups reads a section listed bellow to then discuss and share with the rest of the class.
  1. DRAWING and CHILDREN
  2.  I never draw to show a child how to draw do something.
  3.  Eliciting a careful description from the student 
  4. Blinders as drawing helpers
  5.  Mistakes
  6.  How to respond to a child's drawing
 


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Video





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 Question 5

Why should kids draw?
 
 
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A Note to Remember
 
 Drawing is only difficult if students feel judged or if they judge themselves. If the teacher creates a safe and creative environment, drawing could be a genre that would make any child feel creative, successful and accomplished.
 
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Case Study 
 
Nic Hahn currently works for District 728 in Rogers, Minnesota. She attended college at The University of Wisconsin. She has worked with all levels of students, Pre-School through adult. Ms. Hahn was honored with Minnesota Art Educator of the Year 2017/18 award. Ms. Hahn started a blog called Mini Matisse in 2010 to connect parents to the art projects that were coming home in the hands of their children,
Drawing a Self-Portrait.



 
 
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Activity 2
 
    Individual Work
 
Create a lesson plan to teach drawing using the MDCPS Competency Based Curriculum & the Visual and Performing Arts Department shown bellow.

 
 

 Visual & Performing Arts Department, Division of Academics

https://vpa.dadeschools.net/#!/

 


POST YOUR LESSON PLAN ON DISCUSSION BOARD

 

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Journaling

 

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Glossary

 

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Sources

 


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Students' Work


Self-Portraits
 


 

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