Pictograph Power

Lesson Plan

Description

Students will research cultures that utilize pictographs within their art and create a symmetrical watercolor wax resist animal drawing. They will create emphasis on the animal’s simplified body shape, enhancing with designs, patterns, and symbols that tell a story.

Level

Beginner

Areas of Study

Animals Nature Emphasis Balance Social Studies

Collections

Working with Emphasis

Lesson Objectives

Students will research cultural symbolism and pictographs in art.

Students will identify how cultures record and communicate using symbols.

Students will speculate about processes ancient and Indigenous people used to create works of art.

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Teaching Strategies

Introduce cultures that used pictographs to tell stories and document history.
Identify how cultures record and illustrate stories and history through art.
Lead a discussion speculating about the processes that ancient and Indigenous people used to create works of art.
Show how to draw an animal and create symmetrical designs with the animal's body.

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National Standards

Create

Elaborate on an imaginative idea.

VA:Cr1.1.3a

Plan: Brainstorm, discuss, and sketch ideas to solve an art problem.

A.A.Cr.5.i

Investigate: Experiment with studio skills, techniques, materials, tools and elements and principles of art and design through practice.

A.A.Cr.4.i

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Time Requirements

Teacher Prep Time

20 minutes

Demonstration Time

15 minutes

Student Studio Time

2 hours

Supplies and Materials

12" x 18" drawing paper
Pencil & eraser
Construction paper crayons
Colored markers
Liquid watercolor
Paper towels
Paintbrushes & water cup or small spray bottles
Popsicle stick

National Standards

Create

Elaborate on an imaginative idea.

VA:Cr1.1.3a

Plan: Brainstorm, discuss, and sketch ideas to solve an art problem.

A.A.Cr.5.i

Investigate: Experiment with studio skills, techniques, materials, tools and elements and principles of art and design through practice.

A.A.Cr.4.i

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Steps

Research Cultures

Research cultures that utilize pictographs. Select an animal to represent. Write a story about the animal, noting ways to symbolically represent themes and ideas. Create or select common pictograph symbols to use for artwork or use line and shape to design a personal symbol.

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