Overarching Concept for the Lesson/Unit: Hidden Rooms

Grade Level: Middle School 6-8

 

Essential Questions: 

Why do we hide things away? What do we want to expose/conceal? What are some settings of these rooms? 

 

Standards:

Georgia Standard - VA6.CR.1 Visualize and generate ideas for creating works of art.
a. Visualize new ideas by using mental and visual imagery.
b. Explore essential questions, big ideas, and/or themes in personally relevant ways.
c. Incorporate a variety of internal and external sources of inspiration into works of art (e.g. internal inspiration – moods, feelings, self-perception, memory, imagination, fantasy; external inspiration – direct observation, personal experience, events, pop culture, artists and artwork from diverse cultures and periods). d. Formulate and compose a series of ideas using a variety of resources (e.g. imagination, personal experience, social and academic interests). e. Document process (e.g. journal-keeping, sketches, brainstorming lists).

National Standard - VA:Cn10.1.6
Generate a collection of ideas reflecting current interests and concerns that could be investigated in art-making. 

 

Objectives: 

Students will compile a list of concepts or objects that might be found in a Hidden Room and classify them with a word or phrase. Students will produce a sketch that will place these objects or concepts within a Hidden Room. At the conclusion of this lesson, using a variety of materials, students will create a Hidden Room, in the form of a pop up card, using perspective and paper engineering skills. Each Hidden Room will contain at least 3 pop up elements. 

 

Assessment Instruments:

observation

presentation/critique