Lesson

#1

Really Blind Contour

Date

Nov. 14

Subject/Gra
Gr. 3, Art
de Level

Time
30 min
Duration

Unit

Teacher

Drawing

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
4.
Students will perfect forms and develop more realistic treatments.
Learning
7.
Students will create emphasis by the treatment of forms and qualities.
Outcomes: 10. Students will use media and tecniques, with an emphasis on mixing media
and perfecting techniques in drawing, painting, print making, sculpture,
fabricarts, photography and technographic arts.
Specific
4 b. Many shapes are symmetrical
Learning
c.
Images can be portrayed in varying degrees of realism
Outcomes: 7 c. Details, accents and outlines will enhanve the dominant area or
thing
10 a. Drawing (continue to explore ways of using drawing materials,
make quick sketches, experiment with blind contour drawing and
continuous line drawing).

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. Create a blind contour self-portrait (4b, 4c, 7c, 10a).

ASSESSMENTS
Observations:

willingness to attempt unknown activity

Products/Performan collect drawings, note effort (1)

Key Questions:
ces:

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson
Introduction

Time

Consider:
Attention Grabber
Assessment of Prior
Knowledge
Expectations for
Learning and
Behaviour
Advance
Organizer/Agenda
Transition to Body

introduce self-portraits
hand out paper/journals
make sure that everyones pencil is sharpened and
ready

Body

Time

Consider:
Variety of Learning
Styles
Questioning
throughout
Differentiation for
students
Focused formative
assessment

Activity:
-

explain to students that this activity is about the

experience and not to worry about making their drawing
perfect, because it is supposed to be fun
explain that you are going to have them close their
eyes and use their non-dominant hand to feel around their
face with your direction. as their hand feels, their pencil
will draw, trying to keep them moving at the same time.
have the students put their pencil down near the top
of the paper and at the middle (show on the whiteboard).
explain that they need to keep their pencil on the
page for the entire duration of the drawing
have them close their eyes and then lead them
through tracing their faces, starting at the hairline and the
top of their head and then all the way around their face,
including their ears, back to the top, down the middle of
the forehead to their right eyebrow, then their right eye,
across the bridge of their nose to the left eyebrow and
then the left eye, back to the nose down to the end,
around the bottom, and then down to the lips, and then
the chin.
Closure

Consider:

Consolidation of
Learning
Feedback from
Students
Feedback to Students
Transition to Next
Lesson

have a gallery walk, ask the students to walk

around and look at each others work. notice how
different they are.
remind students about the importance of giving
positive feedback.

20 min

Time

10 min

Sponge
Activity/Activities

Reflections from
the lesson

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