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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

Art Challenge Extra Credit 2020-2021

Each year I provide an extra credit opportunity for my students using an art drawing challenge. You can read about how I have used these art challenges in past years here.

This year due to social distancing protocols, collecting the extra credit will look a little different. I have set up Google Forms where students can upload photographs of their artwork. I plan to post this form in our Google Classroom for a one week period so that students have the opportunity to submit any or all of the extra credit they may have done.

Example of Google Form

Google Classroom Lesson: Wayne Thiebaud & Claes Oldenburg Unit

In class before we left, my students were learning about Pop Artists Wayne Thiebaud and Claes Oldenburg. I gave a short art history about each artist and then students completed assignments based upon each artist. More recently, the students completed a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting artwork that I displayed on the board.

Since we have been out of the building, our school has been utilizing Google Classroom as a platform for virtual learning. Here is the first unit that I completed with my 6th-grade students.

Since I only see my students once per week, I have been posting one assignment per week on Monday morning and allowing students to complete it at their leisure during the week and submitting the assignment before the end of the day on Friday. The first group of assignments related together as a larger unit.

Assignment 1: Wayne Thiebaud Bio

“Read Wayne Thiebaud Biography
Answer Questions relating to Biography (in complete sentences)
Submit your assignment via Google Classroom. Please make sure you include your first name, last name and class name on the top!
Due Date: [INSERT DUE DATE]

If you have any issues with the assignment (the reading, submitting it, etc) please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks! 

Puedes Usar: https://www.spanishdict.com/translation Y responder en español. las respuestas están en la lectura en la otra página.

If anyone needs/wants to listen to the bio while reading along: https://youtu.be/eeM3PfEwdmg“

Assignment 2: Claes Oldenburg Bio

“Read Claes Oldenburg Biography
Answer Questions relating to Biography (in complete sentences)
Submit your assignment via Google Classroom. Please make sure you include your first name, last name and class name on the top!
Due Date: [INSERT DUE DATE]

If you have any issues with the assignment (the reading, submitting it, etc) please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks! 

Puedes Usar: https://www.spanishdict.com/translation Y responder en español. las respuestas están en la lectura en la otra página”

Assignment 3: Virtual Museum Visit

“Visit a museum virtually to answer some questions about the artwork (mini-critique) from Wayne Thiebaud and Claes Oldenburg. Please use the template that I provide you and submit in Word Doc (NOT PDF) before [INSERT DUE DATE] Your responses for the description should be more than 1-2 sentences. If you have any questions, please email me: [INSERT CONTACT]

If you try this out, I’d love to hear from you! ImperfectlyPatricia@gmail.com

International Children’s Book Day

International Children’s Book Day is celebrated annually on April 2. Although I no longer teach lower grades, I used to LOVE incorporating literature with my art lesson plans! I have two lists below, one of art-specific children’s books, and ones that I have used to accompany lesson plans. Keep posted to see what elementary lesson plans I have used them with as I update my lesson plan section over the next upcoming months!

Art Children’s (school-aged) Books:

  • The Color Monster: A Story About Emotions by Anna Llenas
  • Mixed: A Colorful Story by Arree Chung
  • The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art by Barb Rosenstock
  • Through the Window: Views of Marc Chagall’s Life and Art by Barb Rosenstock
  • Vincent Can’t Sleep: Van Gogh Paints the Night Sky by Barb Rosenstock
  • Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg
  • Linnea in Monet’s Garden by Christina Bjork
  • I am Marc Chagall: Text Loosely Inspired by My Life by Marc Chagall by Bimba Landmann
  • Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression by Carole Boston Weatherford
  • Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
  • Kid’s Artists: True Tales of Childhood from Creative Legends by David Stabler
  • Love from the Crayons by Drew Dewalt
  • The Crayon’s Book of Colors by Drew Dewalt
  • The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Dewalt
  • The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Dewalt
  • Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
  • Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh
  • Cassie’s Word Quilt by Faith Ringgold
  • Counting to Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
  • Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
  • The Green Fingers of Monsieur Monet by Giancarlo Ascari
  • Chagall: My Sad and Joyous Village by Jacqueline Loumaye
  • Katie and the Mona Lisa by James Mayhew
  • Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
  • Henri’s Scissors by Jeanette Winter
  • My Museum by Joanne Liu
  • Monet and The Waterlilly Friends by Judiee
  • Bear Sees Colors by Karma Wilson
  • Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing by Kay A. Haring
  • Camille and the Sunflowers by Laurence Anholt
  • Tell Us a Story, Papa Chagall by Laurence Anholt
  • A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
  • Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert
  • Dreamer from the Village: The Story of Marc Chagall by Michelle Markel
  • Frida Kahlo and Her Anamalitos by Monica Brown
  • How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow by Monica Sweeney
  • Sky Color by Peter H. Reynolds
  • The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
  • El Punto (Spanish Edition) by Esther Rubio and Peter H. Reynolds
  • The Museum by Susan Verde and Peter H. Reynolds
  • Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity by Sarah Suzuki
  • Artists and their Pets: True Stories of Famous Artists and their Animal Friends by Susie Hodge
  • The Art Lesson by Tomie DePaola

Books that go great with art lessons:

  • Chickadee’s Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
  • Any Eric Carle Book
  • Pete the Cat books by James Dean and Kimberly Dean
  • Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
  • If You Give a Cat a Cupcake by Laura Numeroff
  • Planting A Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
  • Wow! City! by Robert Neubecker
  • Parrots Over Puerto Rico by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore

Art Baby Books:

  • Goodnight, Starry Night by Amy Guglielmo
  • My First Book of Patterns by Bobby & June George
  • Art Baby: Hearts and Stars by Chez Picthall
  • Art Baby: Spots and Dots by Chez Picthall
  • The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle
  • Blue and Other Colors: With Henri Matisse by Henri Matisse
  • Press Here by Herve Tullet
  • This Little Artist: An Art History Primer by Joan Holub
  • Mini French Masters by Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober
  • Mini Masters Boxed Set by Julie Merberg
  • Painting with Picasso by Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober
  • 100 First Words for Little Artists by Kyle Kershner
  • Frida Kahlo (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vergara
  • Museum ABC by The NY Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Andy Warhol So Many Stars by Mudpuppy and Andy Warhol
  • Keith Haring Pop Art 123! by Mudpuppy and Keith Haring
  • Little Artist Board Book Set by Mudpuppy and Emily Kleinman
  • My First Shapes with Frank Lloyd Wright by Mudpuppy
  • Pop Art Baby! My First Words with Keith Haring from Mudpuppy
  • Pantone: Colors by Pantone and Helen Dark
  • Counting with Frida by Patty Rodriguez and Ariana Stein
  • My First Art Book by Patricio
  • ABC’s of Art by Sabrina Hahn
  • Art For Baby from Templar

Do you have any books that you use that aren’t on this list? I’d love to hear from you: imperfectlypatricia@gmail.com