Art 5-6
Avon Lake City Schools
Curriculum Framework
5th/6th Art
Content Overview:
Grade 5: Students will learn a variety of artistic techniques in drawing and painting, including color theory, and basic artistic concepts within the framework of various artistic styles.
Grade 6: Students will build on knowledge from 5th grade with an emphasis on increasing students’ scale of projects and freedom of creation and creativity.
Resources:
Flip charts utilizing pictures of various works of art, hands on demonstrations, and Drawing on the right side of the Brain.
Assessments:
Project Creation for each assignment.
Standards/Learning Goals
1st Quarter
Grade 5
Contour Line Drawing, Amorphic Shapes
Introduction to: Drawing, Analogous Colors, Amorphic Shapes, Tempera Paint, Washes, Alexander Calder, Manakin, Tempera Paint, Wash
Grade 6
Still Life, Abstract Art
Still Life, Tempera Paint, Washes, Complimentary Colors, Painterly Style, Dry Brush
2nd Quarter
Grade 5
Pop Art
Manakin, Tempera Paint, Wash, Flat color, Hatching, Cross Hatching, Pointillism, Roy Lichtenstein
Grade 6
Impressionism
Water Color, Cezzane, Monet, Renoir, Bonnard
3rd Quarter
Grade 5
Abstract Art
Water Color, Francis Picabia
Grade 6
Precisionism
Oil Pastel, Georgia Okeefe
4th Quarter
Grade 5
Multiple Viewpoints
Oil Pastel, Pablo Picasso
Grade 6
Surrealism
Pressure Shading, Flat color, Texture Surrealism, Renee Magreitte