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                                                                                 KEY  LEARNING,  ENDURING  UNDERSTANDING,  ETC.  

Kristen L. Rosenthal

 • Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.

• Artists use a variety of techniques and processes to manipulate media to achieve desired effects.

   • Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.

ESSENTIAL  QUESTION(S)  for  the  UNIT  

How do artists work?

How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective?

How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?

CONCEPT  A                  CONCEPT  B                                          CONCEPT  C  

Explore Experiment Create

           ESSENTIAL  QUESTIONS  A                              ESSENTIAL  QUESTIONS  B        ESSENTIAL  QUESTIONS  C  

How does different media make marks on How does the way art media is constructed What ways can we make our own art effect the way it works?

paper?

media better or different?

                     VOCABULARY  A                                  VOCABULARY  B                                                VOCABULARY  C    

ARTIST COLORED PENCIL CRAYON WAX EFFECTIVE EFFICIENT

CRAYON EXPERIMENT PIGMENT STERAIC ACID BEAUTIFUL DESIGN  MARKER MATERIAL      MEDIA OIL PASTEL

PENCIL PROPERTIES

ADDITIONAL  INFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES  

Images of art materials throughout time, especially pictures of famous artists’ supplies

Authentic examples of different media on paper Video-NPR’s ‘A Sketchy History of Pencil Lead’, ‘How It’s Made Paintbrushes’, ‘Crayola Crayons’