4th graders just finished a lesson about totem poles. Students learned about the significance of totem poles and that they were (and still are) made by native tribes who lived in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
The big word for this project was stylize. We learned that some artists stylize their work by changing shapes, colors, etc. in order to give their work their own personal touch. Each student created one stylized animal in the style of a real totem pole. (There are some great resources on totem pole parts online here. Unfortunately, I didn't find this until we were almost done with the project!) In the past, I had kids paint the finished product, but I decided to try collage this year after seeing an example from another blog last year. I really like how clean the collage is. More importantly, the students were more successful using collage.
My lesson plan can be found here.
My keynote for this lesson is here.
A PDF version of my keynote can be downloaded here.
Feel free to use or modify for your own room!
4 comments:
Hi!
I really liked your lesson plan and the studednt's work. I couldn't download your kenote as a PDF though. Could you try sending it again? Thanks so much!
Pat-
I included an extra link to download the keynote as a PDF file. Hopefully that will work for everyone who isn't working on a Mac.
These are great. I'm using them as inspiration for a collaboration I'm doing with a classroom teacher at my school.
I have a question after reading your lesson plan (it's so great that you linked to it!), What standards are you pulling from?
Thanks and keep up the great work! I'll be adding your blog to the art ed ones that I currently read :)
Miss Hayes,
Thanks for the compliment!
I'm using the Ohio standards on the lesson plan. We just brought in new standards this year and I think I updated the lesson plan to reflect those.
Thanks for reading!
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