Mind Mapping
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Students will explore recycled materials by creating a painting on a vinyl record with tempera paint and colored pencils. Students choose a personally meaningful word, find symbols to represent the word, and create a radial design with these symbols.
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Lesson Objectives
Students will examine the importance of recycling and conservation.
Students will use their choice of media in the painting.
Students will determine ways to represent ideas through symbols in art.
Students will apply a variety of painting techniques and additional materials to a design.
Teaching Strategies
- Facilitate a discussion on the importance of recycling and how artists use recycled materials.
- Show students how to create a radial design.
- Pass out vinyl records primed with white gesso.
- Demonstrate how to draw and paint on vinyl.
- Guide students in brainstorming and applying their ideas.
National Standards
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Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
VA:Cr1.2.IIaThrough experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
VA:Cr2.1.IIaTime Requirements
Teacher Prep Time
1 hours
Demonstration Time
20 minutes
Student Studio Time
3 hours
Supplies and Materials
- Vinyl records
- Gesso and gloss medium
- Pencils and colored pencils
- Tempera paint and paint brushes
- Palettes
- Paper towels
- Water container
- Colored pencils
- Tracing paper
National Standards
Create
Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
VA:Cr1.2.IIaThrough experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
VA:Cr2.1.IIa
Steps
Brainstorm and Find Images
Brainstorm a word whose meaning has significance in life or in the world.
Choose a word that can be represented visually
Research to find images.
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