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Van Gogh Starry Night Hybrid Unit

Lessons and activities relating to the Van Gogh Starry Night Unit. Includes hands on and interactive digital assignments for Google Classroom. 

This unit was set up for a hybrid schedule with students attending in person every other day, while completing assignments in Google Classroom at home. All linked documents are available for free download on my Teachers Pay Teachers page. 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Stuck-In-Middle-Art

Grade: 6

Artist/Theme: Vincent Van Gogh

Materials: exemplars, pencils, erasers, colored pencils, sharpener, paper, Google Classroom/Google Products, device

Teacher Prep: Color Theory PowerPoint, create Google Forms

Day 1: In Person: Introduce the unit using the Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night Unit PowerPoint Presentation. Show examples and have students begin brainstorming and sketching their ideas.

Day 2: At Home: Students will work on and complete the one-day assignment: Scholastic Magazine Article: Brush With the Law which consists of two documents.

-Brush With The Law- ARTICLE

-Brush With The Law- QUESTIONS

Day 3: In Person: Students will continue working on their Starry Night inspired landscape drawings.

Day 4: At Home: Students will work on and complete the one-day assignment: Scholastic Magazine Article: How to Make a Masterpiece which consists of two documents.

-How to Make a Masterpiece- ARTICLE

–How to Make a Masterpiece- RESPONSE QUESTIONS

Day 5: In Person: Go through the self-assessment rubric (Google Form) and have students complete and upload their landscape drawings.

Students who complete their work early can catch up on the at home assignments, and work on Van Gogh games.

https://puzzlefactory.pl/en/puzzle/play/art/160205-vincent-van-gogh

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/quiz-van-gogh-beat-clock-challenge

https://puzzlefactory.pl/en/puzzle/play/art/192410-van-gogh

Vincent Van Gogh – Sunflower Matching Game

Keith Haring (Hybrid) Unit

Lessons and activities relating to the Keith Haring Unit. Includes hands on and interactive digital assignments for Google Classroom. 

This unit was set up for a hybrid schedule with students attending in person every other day, while completing assignments in Google Classroom at home. All linked documents are available for free download on my Teachers Pay Teachers page. 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Stuck-In-Middle-Art

Grade: 6

Artist/Theme: Keith Haring/Graffiti Art

Materials: exemplars, pencils, erasers, colored pencils, sharpener, paper, black Sharpie marker and/or pen, Google Classroom/Google Products, device

Teacher Prep: Download Keith Haring Murals PowerPoint, create Google Forms, create teacher examples

Day 1: In Person: Introduce material and artist Keith Haring with the Keith Haring Murals Presentation. Have students watch 2 videos and complete exit ticket. Stop at Exit Ticket.

Day 2: At Home: Have students begin the Keith Haring Biography & Questions assignment (2 day assignment). There are 3 documents shared on my TPT page for this assignment.

–Keith Haring Biography

–Biography Questions

-Vocabulary Definitions Chart

These documents can be shared digitally, or printed off and used as a written assignment.

Day 3: In Person: Show examples and explain graffiti mural assignment. I provided Keith Haring symbols for students to use (as the internet has many Haring inspired works, and Haring has some artwork that is not “school appropriate”). I shared this document on Google Classroom, but in the past I printed and laminated the examples for students to use at their tables. Have students begin to brainstorm ideas and create their KEYs. I also posted assignment directions for students in Google Classroom so that they did not need to refer to the PowerPoint presentation.

Day 4: At Home: Students will complete the Keith Haring Biography & Questions assignment. If students complete the assignment early, they can watch the Jean-Michel Basquait video.

Day 5: In Person: Students will begin working on their mural drawings.

Day 5: At Home: Students will begin working on the Virtual Museum Visit: Keith Haring assignment. There are 3 documents for this assignment. I gave students 2 days to work on and complete this assignment.

–Virtual Museum Visit: Keith Haring DIRECTIONS

-Virtual Museum Visit: Keith Haring TEMPLATE

–Teacher Example: Virtual Museum Visit

Day 6: In person: Students continued to work on their mural designs. Some students may be finished with their murals today, so I went through and posted the self-assessment rubric (Google Form) for my students to turn in their work once completed.

Day 7: At Home: Students continued to work on their Virtual Museum Visit: Keith Haring assignments and turned them in.

Day 8: In Person: This was the final day for my students to work on their murals. All work should be turned in via the Google Form. Students who are finished early can play the Keith Haring art games and activities.

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/street-art

https://www.artsology.com/keith-haring-pinball.php

http://www.haringkids.com/coloringbook/

Color Theory (Hybrid) Unit

Lessons and activities relating to the Color Theory Unit. Includes hands on and interactive digital assignments for Google Classroom.

This unit was set up for a hybrid schedule with students attending in person every other day, while completing assignments in Google Classroom at home. All linked documents are available for free download on my Teachers Pay Teachers page.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Stuck-In-Middle-Art

Grade: 6

Artist/Theme: Color Wheel/Color Theory

Materials: exemplars, pencils, erasers, colored pencils, sharpener, paper, Google Classroom/Google Products, device

Teacher Prep: Color Theory PowerPoint, create Google Forms

Day 1: At Home: Have students fill out the Color Wheel Pre-Assessment Google Form

Day 2: In Person: Introduce or review Color Theory with the Color Wheel Slide Presentation With the remaining amount of time, students will complete the Drag and Drop Color Wheel and begin the Color Wheel Vocabulary Google Form.

Day 3: At Home: Students will complete the Color Wheel Vocabulary Google Form and Color and Moods Google Form.

Day 4: In Person: Go through the Colors as Emotions in Artwork Presentation. Go through directions for the Color as Emotions in Art: Logos assignment. I created this assignment as a Google Form and had students take a photo of their artwork to submit.

Day 5: At Home: Students will complete their logos assignment and use today at home to complete any missing assignments for this unit.

Bonus or Sub Assignment: Creative Color Wheels: Have students create their own color wheels with a unique design

Keith Haring Color Wheels

Grade: 6

Artist: Keith Haring

Materials: exemplars, printouts, pencils, erasers, colored pencils, sharpener, rulers, black Sharpie markers, paper

Teacher Prep: Keith Haring PowerPoint, print Keith Haring example pages, gather materials

Day 1: Introduce color wheel with images on Smart Board. Introduce vocabulary. Students work on color wheel worksheet. 

Day 2: Introduce the artist Keith Haring with Power Point presentation. Guiding questions and discussion. Show CBS news YouTube clip.

Day 3: Students choose 1 Keith Haring symbol to draw large on a piece of 8.5″ by 11″ paper. (Variation: Students create a symbol inspired by Keith Haring’s work). Students draw a dot in the center of their image/paper and draw 12 lines in radial symmetry from the center. Students need to make sure that their lines intersect with the image drawn, otherwise they must add more symbols to fill the negative space. Students will trace over the lines with Sharpie ONLY where the line intersects with the positive space of the image. 

Day 4-5: Students shade in their color wheels in correct color wheel order (using their color wheel worksheets as a guide if needed). Students erase pencil marks and fill out self assessment rubric. 

Student Examples of Keith Haring Color Wheels

Oil Pastel Cake Drawings

Grade: 6

Artist: Wayne Thiebaud

Materials: exemplars, printouts, pencils, erasers, oil pastels, rulers, paper

Teacher Prep: Wayne Thiebaud PowerPoint/Prezi, print Wayne Thiebaud example and bio info, create step-by-step ellipse, gather materials

Day 1: Introduce artist Wayne Thiebaud using Prezi presentation and CBS clip. Demonstrate how to draw ellipse and cake with a slice missing. Have students brainstorm and practice cake drawings on scrap paper for remainder of class.

Day 2: Provide ellipse directions for students. Provide rubric from my TPT page, and go through grading requirements with students. Have students complete sketches and choose one cake to draw. I allowed students to draw a single layer cake, or multi-layer “wedding cakes”, but they were required to have at least one slice taken out of a cake. Students practice with oil pastels trying out different color combinations and blending. 

Day 3: Remind students about cake requirement and introduce tints and shades. Pass out oil pastel paper. Students begin working on their final copy adding oil pastel, tints and shades. 

Day 4-5: Students continue working on their cakes adding details, tints and shade. Students complete self-assessment rubrics when complete.