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

  • 5.2 CR
  • 5.1 PE
  • 5.2 PE

Grade 6

Still Life, Abstract Art

Still Life, Tempera Paint, Washes, Complimentary Colors, Painterly Style, Dry Brush

  • 6.3 CR
  • 6.3 PE

2nd Quarter

Grade 5

Pop Art

Manakin, Tempera Paint, Wash, Flat color, Hatching, Cross Hatching, Pointillism, Roy Lichtenstein

  • 5.2 CR
  • 5.1 PE
  • 5.2 PE

Grade 6

Impressionism

Water Color, Cezzane, Monet, Renoir, Bonnard

  • 6.3 CR
  • 6.3 PE

3rd Quarter

Grade 5

Abstract Art

Water Color, Francis Picabia

  • 5.2 CR
  • 5.1 PE
  • 5.2 PE

Grade 6

Precisionism

Oil Pastel, Georgia Okeefe

  • 6.3 CR
  • 6.3 PE

4th Quarter

Grade 5

Multiple Viewpoints

Oil Pastel, Pablo Picasso

  • 5.2 CR
  • 5.1 PE
  • 5.2 PE

Grade 6

Surrealism

Pressure Shading, Flat color, Texture Surrealism, Renee Magreitte

  • 6.3 CR
  • 6.3 PE