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Mindfulness Wheel

Lesson Plan

Description

Students will develop ideas to set goals and empower themselves through a mindfulness exercise. They will illustrate their ideas, feelings, and behaviors to create a focused and personally meaningful artistic wheel to use as a mindfulness tool.

Level

Advanced

Areas of Study

Colored PencilsMarkersWatercolorBalanceMovementColor

Collections

Inspired by Mindfulness

Lesson Objectives

Students will practice mindfulness to identify, analyze, and classify personal strengths and areas for growth.

Students will develop empowering intentions and goals.

Students will design and illustrate a mindfulness wheel to influence their intentions and goals.

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Teaching Strategies

  • Discuss mindfulness and how a work of art can empower, shape, and enhance an artist’s life.
  • Facilitate the mindfulness wheel exercise.
  • Assist in brainstorming, sketching, and designing mindfulness wheels illustrating goals and intentions.
  • Guide self-reflections on how the process and product influence their ideas, feelings, and behaviors.

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National Standards

Create

Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.

VA:Cr2.3.IIa

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Time Requirements

Teacher Prep Time

20 minutes

Demonstration Time

10 minutes

Student Studio Time

4 hours and 40 minutes

Supplies and Materials

  • Compass and ruler
  • Pencil and eraser
  • Choice of media: colored pencils, markers, or watercolors
  • Paper of choice: illustration board or watercolor

National Standards

Create

Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.

VA:Cr2.3.IIa

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Steps

Set Mindful Intentions and Goals

Discuss how a work of art can empower, shape, and enhance an artist’s life. Identify and classify strengths and growth areas on the mindfulness wheel worksheet. Analyze the strengths and growth areas. Brainstorm empowering intentions and goals to create balance.

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Instructional Materials

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Mindful Identity

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  • Pre-K to 3rd Grade
  • FLEX 3rd Grade - 1st Edition Scope and Sequence (Copy)
  • Line
  • Color
  • Shape
  • Contrast
  • 3D
  • Drawing I - Sample Class (Copy)
  • Still Life
  • Portraiture
  • Abstraction
  • Architecture
  • Beginning Exercises
  • Community
  • Identity
  • Test Unit
  • Unit 10
  • Unit 10
  • Sub Plans (Copy)
  • Kindergarten sub plans
  • 1st grade sub plans
  • 2nd grade sub plans
  • 3rd grade sub plans
  • 4th grade sub plans
  • 5th grade sub plans
  • 6th grade sub plans
  • 7th grade sub plans
  • 8th grade sub plans
  • High School- Proficient sub plans
  • High School- Accomplished sub plans
  • High School- Advanced sub plans
  • FLEX Kindergarten Sample Class (Copy)
  • Line
  • Shape
  • Texture
  • Color
  • 3D Texture
  • Kindergarten Art on a Cart
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Mindful Identity - FLEX Assessment

Mindful Identity

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Anchor Chart

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Inspired by Mindfulness

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Mindfulness in the Elementary Art Room Social-Emotional Learning

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Worksheet

Mindfulness Wheel

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  • Pre-K to 3rd Grade
  • FLEX 3rd Grade - 1st Edition Scope and Sequence (Copy)
  • Line
  • Color
  • Shape
  • Contrast
  • 3D
  • Drawing I - Sample Class (Copy)
  • Still Life
  • Portraiture
  • Abstraction
  • Architecture
  • Beginning Exercises
  • Community
  • Identity
  • Test Unit
  • Unit 10
  • Unit 10
  • Sub Plans (Copy)
  • Kindergarten sub plans
  • 1st grade sub plans
  • 2nd grade sub plans
  • 3rd grade sub plans
  • 4th grade sub plans
  • 5th grade sub plans
  • 6th grade sub plans
  • 7th grade sub plans
  • 8th grade sub plans
  • High School- Proficient sub plans
  • High School- Accomplished sub plans
  • High School- Advanced sub plans
  • FLEX Kindergarten Sample Class (Copy)
  • Line
  • Shape
  • Texture
  • Color
  • 3D Texture
  • Kindergarten Art on a Cart
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Mindfulness Wheel

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Worksheet

Areas of Study

Social and Emotional

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Inspired by Mindfulness

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Mindfulness in the Elementary Art Room Social-Emotional Learning

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Symbolism in Art

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  • Pre-K to 3rd Grade
  • FLEX 3rd Grade - 1st Edition Scope and Sequence (Copy)
  • Line
  • Color
  • Shape
  • Contrast
  • 3D
  • Drawing I - Sample Class (Copy)
  • Still Life
  • Portraiture
  • Abstraction
  • Architecture
  • Beginning Exercises
  • Community
  • Identity
  • Test Unit
  • Unit 10
  • Unit 10
  • Sub Plans (Copy)
  • Kindergarten sub plans
  • 1st grade sub plans
  • 2nd grade sub plans
  • 3rd grade sub plans
  • 4th grade sub plans
  • 5th grade sub plans
  • 6th grade sub plans
  • 7th grade sub plans
  • 8th grade sub plans
  • High School- Proficient sub plans
  • High School- Accomplished sub plans
  • High School- Advanced sub plans
  • FLEX Kindergarten Sample Class (Copy)
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  • Texture
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  • Kindergarten Art on a Cart
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Symbolism in Art

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Student

Areas of Study

EmphasisContemporary Art

Collections

Exploring my CommunityCreating with CrayonsDiscovering FeltingInspired by Mindfulness

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Methods for Analyzing Art

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Talking about Art

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  • FLEX 3rd Grade - 1st Edition Scope and Sequence (Copy)
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  • Drawing I - Sample Class (Copy)
  • Still Life
  • Portraiture
  • Abstraction
  • Architecture
  • Beginning Exercises
  • Community
  • Identity
  • Test Unit
  • Unit 10
  • Unit 10
  • Sub Plans (Copy)
  • Kindergarten sub plans
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  • 4th grade sub plans
  • 5th grade sub plans
  • 6th grade sub plans
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Talking about Art

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Chalk Pastel TechniquesStories from Black ArtistsCurrent and World EventsImpressionism TechniquesCreating with CrayonsNative American ArtCreating with Mixed MediaAnimals Past and PresentExploring Abstract ExpressionismConnecting Science and ArtFlowers in ArtInspired by Mindfulness

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