Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Women in the Visual Arts Art History Lesson Name: Marissa Moore
Content Area: Art (Drawing & Painting) Grade Level: 8
th

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
Visual Arts Standards: 2.3 Create an original work of art using film, photography, computer graphics software, etc.
3.3 Identify major works of art created by women and describe the impact of those works on society at that time.
4.2 Develop a theory about the artists intent in a series of works of art, using reasoned statements to support personal opinions.

Big Ideas:

- Women have played an undervalued role in the Visual Arts
- Art history typically portrays women as less influential than men.
- The study of art history is biased in its view of what is important enough to be studied

Unit Goals and Objectives:
- Introduce and familiarize students with female artists
- Allow students to gather and organize information in order to form conclusions, opinions, and create a narrative
- Utilize technology as it pertains to the field of visual arts

Unit Summary:

This unit will enable students to gain knowledge about women in the visual arts. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to identify important female artists and demonstrate
an understanding of these artists intent. Students will be working collaboratively in groups to create a media- based presentation (video, photography, or computer imaging
software) about an important female artist. These groups will be able to identify and define five ways in which the artist was important and helped shape the field of visual arts.
Students will engage in a variety of individual and group activities to help them gather and organize the information needed for their presentations. In addition, students will be
engaging in a variety of learning strategies and utilizing many different kinds of technology as they progress through the unit. At its conclusion, students will know how to create and
showcase a media-based presentation as it pertains to the visual arts.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:

1. Rating Artist Guide
Formative:

1. Rating Artist Guide
2. Class Discussion
3. Popplet concept maps
4. Artistic Influence graphic organizer


Summative:

1. Media Presentation
2. Group Paper
Lesson 1
Student Learning Objective:

1. Together in a class lecture, students
will discuss and analyze important
female artists.
Acceptable Evidence:

Students will individually rate their knowledge
of 5 important female artists from the 16
th
- 20
th

centuries.

Students will write important facts about each
artist during class and pair discussions.



Instructional Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction
Lesson Activities:

Rating Artist Guide
Teacher Lecture
Pair discussion
Class discussion


Lesson 2
Student Learning Objective:

1. Students will obtain specific
knowledge of women in the visual
arts.

2. Students will form small groups of 4-
5 students to begin their research on
women in the visual arts.

3. Students will track the influences
upon their artists style as well as the
influences of their artists style upon
others.




Acceptable Evidence:

Students will utilize a web-based research
project to gain further understanding of artists
discussed in the course.


Students will complete the Artistic Influence
graphic organizer in their groups and utilize this
information in their presentations.

Instructional Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction
Lesson Activities:

Webercise Activity: Women in the Visual
Arts
Group discussions to decide what form
to choose for the presentation.
Artistic Influence graphic organizer





Lesson 3
Student Learning Objective:

1. Students will gather and organize
information pertaining to their artist

2. As a group, students will form
opinions on their artists work and
intent.

Acceptable Evidence:

As students are gathering information on the
artist of their groups choice, they will input
information into their Popplet concept maps.

Students will also use Popplet to input opinion
and brainstorm narrative options.

Instructional Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction
Lesson Activities:

Popplet concept maps
Media Presentation (7-10) minutes
Group paper (1-2) pages


3. Students will use information and
opinion to create a narrative about
the artist in their group.

4. Students will work collaboratively to
present the accumulation of
knowledge on a female artist.



In small groups, students will create a
multimedia presentation (video, photography,
or computer software) that will assess the
importance of one of the artists discussed in
class.

In their groups, students will complete a 1-2
page paper summarizing the information and
providing sources from which they retrieved
information for their projects.


Unit Resources:

National Museum of Women in the Arts
Oxford Art Online Biographies List
SmARThistory
National Gallery of Art


Useful Websites:

SFMOMA Frida Kahlo
Georgia OKeeffe In her own words
Encyclopedia Britannica
Impressionism.org
The Art Story
Popplet
Knight Cite
Women in the Visual Arts Unit -Moore