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Educ 540 - Art - The Giving Tree - Metis Pastel Art - Lesson Plan
Educ 540 - Art - The Giving Tree - Metis Pastel Art - Lesson Plan
Lesson 1: 1 hour
Lesson 2: 45 mins
Lesson 3: 1 hour
Teacher will offer immediate formative feedback throughout the lessons to allow
students time to revise their work before completion.
Introduction/ hook:
Lesson 2
5 mins Transition:
• Have a couple student
volunteers pass out art projects
• Each student needs an art mat
and a box of pastels- call
students up by table number to
get their supplies
35 mins
Work Time:
• Start by outlining the tree
• Work from the inside of the
paper outward
• Talk about doing a really good
job and covering all white
spaces- need to push fairly hard
with pastels
• Talk about not putting your
hand on the part that you have
already colored otherwise your
pastels will smudge
• Talk about overlapping pastels
when we get to the lines on the
tree and the dots on the sky and
grass
5 mins
Clean up
Lesson 3
5 mins
Transition:
• Have a couple student
volunteers pass out art projects
• Each student needs an art mat
and a box of pastels- call
students up by table number to
get their supplies
30- 40
mins Work Time:
• Continue working from where
we left off
15- 20
mins
Sponge Activity:
• If time, have all students clean
up and place their art on their
desk
• Have students circulate the
classroom thinking about the
techniques that their peers used
to complete their work.
• Have students sit down and ask
students what they noticed
about another students’ art?
What did their like? – Remind
them to be positive and kind
Closure
Day 1- We will continue to work on this tomorrow
Day 2- We will finish our Metis art on Monday
Day 3- Gallery Walk (can act as sponge activity if we have time):
- Each student places their art on their desk or a common space around the
classroom
- All students walk around to critique and actively engage in each others’ work
• What did you notice that you liked about someone else’s work?
Perhaps a technique that they used?
• Remind students to be positive about each others’ work
Sponge Activity
- Students can help other students who require extra support
- Help clean up the classroom
- DEAR time
Day 3
- Gallery walk
Self-Assessment
• What went well? Why did this go well? How did it contribute to student learning?
• In what ways would I change this lesson to increase student learning? Why?
• How does this inform the next lesson?