3rd Grade - Lesson 10 : Creating a Time and Place

Description of Project

Students select colors, textures, and shapes to make a collagraph print. (Teach in multiple sessions.)

Landscape at Barbizon by Diaz de la Peña

The Willows by Pieter van Veen

Photos courtesy of the Frye Art Museum.

1.1.a Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
1.2.a Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies through art making.
2.1.a Create personally satisfying artwork, using a variety of artistic processes and materials.
2.2.a Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes.
7.2.a Determine messages communicated by an image.
8.a Interpret art by analyzing the use of media to create subject matter, characteristics of form and mood.

3.RL.7. Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is being conveyed by the words in the story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
3.W.8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from print or digital sources: take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into categories.