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Lower Elementary (1st and 2nd Grade) Art Part One

Completed by 27 learners

Ages 6-8

Self-Paced Course

This class gives your artist 15 different art projects, one for each week of the course. With each your artist will learn a new skill and about a new artist, art movement, or art culture.

Jenny Miller

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4.9

Number of reviews:

(622 reviews)

15 pre-recorded lessons

15 weeks of teacher support

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What's included

15 pre-recorded lessons

15 weeks

of teacher support

1 year access

to the content

Homework

1-2 hours per week. Each unit will come with resources such as instructional videos, art history interactive learning activities, photos of finished examples, and a suggested completion timeline.

Grading

Students will be given individual feedback for each project after it is completed. No grades will be given. Feedback will be given within 2 school days of the student's post.

Class Experience

US Grade 1 - 2

This semester's self-paced course will provide 15 different art units with projects targeted for 1st or 2nd grade students.  Each unit will cover a different artist, art movement, and/ or art culture and will teach students how to manipulate various art media, both 2D and 3D, better preparing students for upper elementary art.  This course is also designed to meet the visual art state standards in the U.S.

Once the course begins, students will either be given 1 unit every week which will include the learning goals and final project if paying per week or given all 15 units if paying for the entire course upfront.   Students will start each unit by learning about its art history portion.  The art history portion will be followed by an instructional video that will show students how to finish the project with step-by-step instructions.  The video will feature me modeling each step.  A step-by-step guide with instructions and images will also be provided as a PDF, so students can print out the steps and/ or view them electronically as well while following along with the video.  While completing the project, students will also learn how to manipulate the major art media of drawing, painting, and clay.

At the end of the units, students will review concepts through various activities. After completing each project, students will be asked to post a photo of their finished project on the class page for positive feedback.  Feedback will be given within 2 school days of the student's post.

Click this link or copy and paste it to your URL bar to view the projects:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cd0TN3pgFfSFYagPEkosSfX6puFzteth?usp=drive_link

Learning Goals

Students will learn about fifteen major artists, art movements, and/ or art cultures.  Students will also learn how to manipulate at grade appropriate levels various art media including clay, paint, colored pencils, and oil pastels.

Syllabus

15 Lessons

over 15 Weeks

Lesson 1:

Rene Magritte portrait

 a self-portrait drawing in the style of Magritte’s painting which will serve as the cover of their art portfolio.  Needed supplies include white paper, a pencil and eraser, and crayons or colored pencils.

Lesson 2:

Patterned sunsets

 a mixed media 2D design that combine crayon and watercolor paint to make a sunset based on Claud Monet’s Impressionist paintings.  Needed supplies include white sketch or mixed media paper, a pencil and eraser, crayons or colored pencils, and watercolor paint with a brush and water cup.

Lesson 3:

Mosaic medallions

 a paper collage based upon the tile mosaics of the Byzantine period.  Needed supplies include construction paper of various colors, glue, scissor, a pencil, and an eraser.

Lesson 4:

Clay owls

 a ceramic design to each student's clay techniques.  Needed supplies include air-dry clay, a container of water, paint and paint supplies, and a spoon, fork, and knife to use as clay tools.

Other Details

Learning Needs

I will provide a step-by-step guide that features pictures and a description of each step in addition to the provided instructional video.

Parental Guidance

Several art movements and artworks from art history will be displayed, and the original purpose of those artworks will be discussed which may include its religious and/ or cultural purposes. No nudity will ever be shown.

Pre-Requisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Supply List

8.5x11" or 9x12” sketch or mixed media paper
#2 wooden pencils with erasers
Scissors
Glue (liquid or glue stick)
Watercolor paint (with a brush and water container)
Construction/ colored paper (9x12”) various colors
12” ruler
Colored markers including black
2.5 pounds of air-dry clay (white)
Crayons and/or colored pencils
Q-tips/ cotton swabs
Acrylic or tempera paint with paint brushes and a palette or plate
Access to a printer

Optional supplies include colored markers, gold paint (acrylic or tempera) and oil pastels, but crayons and watercolor paint can be used as a substitute.  Most supplies excluding the clay can be purchased for under $1 or 2 each at local department stores.  The clay which is also found at local department stores and on Amazon can be purchased for under $10 but does need to be white to hold paint well.

1 file available upon enrollment

Language of Instruction

English

External Resources

Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Meet the teacher

Jenny Miller

Joined June, 2020

4.9

622reviews

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Teacher expertise and credentials

Indiana Teaching Certificate in Music/Theater/Arts

Bachelor's Degree in Music or Theatre or Arts from Northwestern College of St. Paul, MN

I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Arts education and am certified by the state of Indiana to teach art for grades PK-12. I also have been certified to teach art in North Dakota where, in order to obtain my certification, had to take a specific four-credit college course on Native American studies in which I did learn about the specific nations of each region of North America, including those of the Pacific Northwest, how those tribes lived and what types of art they made.  In addition, I have traveled across the United States and have learned art and culture directly from peoples of Native American nations of the Pacific Northwestern, plains, eastern woodlands, southeast, and southwest regions.  

The art project on the Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwestern will teach students about the types of dwellings those particular nations of just that region lived in as well as what types of foods they ate, the clothes they wore, and the types of art they made.  It will also teach students that the tribes across North America were not all the same but had different beliefs, cultures, ways of life, and art.

To obtain my degree, I have also taken several art history courses which did focus on the art movements, cultures, and artists I will be teaching in this course. In addition, to obtain my teaching license, I had to take two tests, one on teaching methods and one on art history.  The test on art history did include each of the cultures/ movements present in this course.

I have taught versions of each of these projects in public, private, and charter school; and this course is designed to meet the standards/ requirements for art in most U.S. states.