Unit and Lesson Standards, Goals, and Objectives Alignment
Standards
Comprehend Reflect
Prepared Graduate Competencies
Lesson 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Analyze, interpret, and
make meaning of art and
design critically using
oral and written discourse
Lesson Objectives (Aligned to Blooms, Standards, Grade Level Expectations, Art Learning, Literacy and
Numeracy)
Lesson 1
Upon being exposed to
color mixing and painting
techniques through
demonstration and
discussion, students will
be able to investigate with
this
knowledge to create an
interesting composition.
Blooms: Analysing
Standard: Comprehend
GLE:Artists and viewers
recognize characteristics
and expressive features
within works of art
Art Learning: Materials
and Expressive
Characteristics
PGC:Analyze, interpret,
and make meaning of art
and design critically
using oral and written
discourse
Create
Lesson 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Recognize, articulate, and
implement critical thinking
in the visual arts by
synthesizing, evaluating,
and analyzing visual
information
Lesson 1
Upon the completion of this
art project, students will be
able to explain their own
work describing the
narrative.
Blooms: Analysing
Standard: Reflect
GLE:Identify that art
represents and tells the
stories of people, places, or
things
Art Learning: Reflection
PGC:Recognize, articulate,
and implement critical
thinking in the visual arts by
synthesizing, evaluating,
and analyzing visual
information
Lesson 2
Using their artwork,
SWBAT explain how they
made their colors and
Transfer
Lesson 1,2,4,5,6,7,8 Lesson 1,3,4,5,6,7,8
Recognize, interpret, and Explain, compare and
validate that the creative justify that the visual arts
process builds on the are connected to other
development of ideas disciplines, the other art
through a process of forms, social activities,
inquiry, discovery, and mass media, and careers
research in art and non-art related
arenas
Lesson 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Develop and build Lesson 2,4
appropriate mastery in Transfer the value of
art-making skills using visual arts to lifelong
traditional and new learning and the human
technologies and an experience
understanding of the
characteristics and
expressive features of art
and design
Lesson 1 Lesson 1
After a discussion, Given examples of artists
students will be able to family portraits, students
invent their own ideas to will be able discuss how
create their unique family the artists depicted their
portrait. families to tell a story.
Blooms: Creating Bloom's: Understanding
Standard: Create Standard: Transfer
GLE:Create two- and GLE:Artists and viewers
three-dimensional works contribute and connect to
of art based on personal their communities
relevance Art Learning: Art Context
Art Learning: Ideation PGC:Explain, compare
PGC:Recognize, and justify that the visual
interpret, and validate arts are connected to
that the creative process other disciplines, the
builds on the development other art forms, social
of ideas through a activities, mass media,
process of inquiry, and careers in art and
discovery, and research non-art related arenas
Develop and build Transfer the value of
appropriate mastery in visual arts to lifelong
art-making skills using learning and the human
traditional and new experience
technologies and an
 created marks to
communicate.
Lesson 2 Blooms: Analyzing
Using paint, SWBAT Standard: Envision and
show primary and Critique to Reflect
complementary colors GLE: Identify that art
and their relationships in represents and tells the
their composition. stories of people, places, or
Blooms: Understand things
Standard: Observe and Art Learning: Critical
Learn to Comprehend reflection
GLE: Artists and viewers PGC: Recognize, articulate,
recognize characteristics and implement critical
and expressive features thinking in the visual arts by
within works of art synthesizing, evaluating,
Art Learning: Expressive and analyzing visual
features and information
characteristics of art
PGC: Analyze, interpret,
and make meaning of art Lesson 3
and design critically Using completed artwork,
using oral and written SWBAT discuss the story,
discourse pastel techniques or shapes
found in their artwork or the
artwork of others.
Lesson 3 Blooms: Understanding
Given examples and a Standard: Reflect and
demonstration as to how Transfer
an artist may identify GLE: Identify that art
shapes within a subject represents and tells the
and use those shapes to stories of people, places, or
simplify a complex things
subject, students will be Art Learning: Critical
able to identify similar Reflection
shapes the subject of their PGC:Transfer the value of
artwork. visual arts to lifelong
Blooms: Understanding learning and the human
Standards: Comprehend experience
GLE: Artists and viewers
recognize characteristics
and expressive features Lesson 4
within works of art Using completed artwork,
Art learning: Materials SWBAT describe the story,
PGC: Analyze, interpret, pastel, and watercolor
and make meaning of art techniques or shapes found
and design critically in their artwork or the
using oral and written artwork of others.
discourse Blooms: Remembering
Standard: Reflect
Lesson 4 GLE: Identify that art
After a demonstration, represents and tells the
SWBAT experiment with stories of people, places, or
watercolors explaining things
their discoveries. Art Learning: Reflection
Blooms: Understanding PGC:Recognize, articulate,
Standards: Comprehend and implement critical
understanding of the
characteristics and
expressive features of art
and design
Lesson 2
Using the provided
medium, SWBAT create
an image that visually
shows their choices and
exploration of paint by
showing new color
mixing and mark
techniques.
Blooms: Create
Standard: Invent and
Discover to Create
GLE: Create two- and
three-dimensional work of
art based on person
relevance
Art Learning:
Materials(s)/technique(s)
PGC: Recognize,
interpret, and validate
that the creative process
builds on the development
of ideas through a
process of inquiry,
discovery, and research
Develop and build
appropriate mastery in
art-making skills using
traditional and new
technologies and an
understanding of the
characteristics and
expressive features of art
and design
Lesson 3
After a demonstration,
SWBAT experiment with
oil pastels explaining their
discoveries.
Blooms: Create
Standards: Create
GLE: Create two- and
three-dimensional works
of art based on personal
relevance
Art learning: Materials
PGC: Develop and build
appropriate mastery in
art-making skills using
Lesson 2
Given examples of color
fields, SWBAT describe
how the artist created
colors in their paintings.
Blooms: Evaluating
Standard: Relate and
Connect to Transfer
GLE: Artists and viewers
contribute and connect to
their communities
Art Learning: Expressive
features and
characteristics of art
PGC: Transfer the value
of visual arts to lifelong
learning and the human
experience
Lesson 3
Using oil pastels,
SWBAT represent figures
and objects using a
variety of shapes and
spatial relationships.
Blooms: Evaluate
Standard: Transfer
Numeracy
GLE: Artists and viewers
contribute and connect to
their communities
Art Learning: Expressive
features
PGC:Explain, compare
and justify that the visual
arts are connected to
other disciplines, the
other art forms, social
activities, mass media,
and careers in art and
non-art related arenas
the human experience
Lesson 3
Shown images, SWBAT
examine paintings
explaining the subject
matter and identifying
shapes.
Blooms Analyzing
Standard: Reflect and
Transfer
GLE: Artists and viewers
contribute and connect to
their communities
Art Learning: Ideation &
GLE: Artists and viewers thinking in the visual arts by traditional and new Art and Culture
recognize characteristics synthesizing, evaluating, technologies and an PGC:
and expressive features and analyzing visual understanding of the Explain, compare and
within works of art information characteristics and justify that the visual arts
Art learning: Materials expressive features of art are connected to other
PGC:Analyze, interpret, and design disciplines, the other art
and make meaning of art Lesson 5 forms, social activities,
and design critically Using artwork, Students will Lesson 4 mass media, and careers
using oral and written be able to describe how they Using oil pastels and in art and non-art related
discourse observed and used shapes in watercolors, SWBAT arenas
their and others artwork. create an artwork with a
Blooms: Evaluating personal theme with Transfer the value of
Lesson 5 Standard: Reflect landscape using a variety visual arts to lifelong
Given examples, GLE: Identify that art of shapes. learning and the human
demonstration, and represents and tells the Blooms: Create experience
experience identifying stories of people, places, or Standard: Create
shapes within complex things GLE: Create two- and
forms, students will be Art learning: Critical three-dimensional work of Lesson 4
able to recognize shapes reflection/aesthetics/transfer art based on person Shown Artists works,
and spatial relationships PGC: Recognize, relevance SWBAT examine
within complex shapes demonstrate, and debate the Art Learning: Ideation paintings explaining the
and forms. place of art and design in and Expressive features subject matter and
Blooms: Analyzing history and culture PGC: Recognize, identifying shapes.
Standard: Comprehend interpret, and validate Blooms Analyzing
GLE: Artists and viewers Lesson 6 that the creative process Standard: Transfer
recognize characteristics Upon completion, students builds on the development GLE: Artists and viewers
and expressive features will be able to compare their of ideas through a contribute and connect to
within works of art masks colors, materials, process of inquiry, their communities
Art learning: Expressive shapes, and artistic choices discovery, and research Art Learning: Art and
features and with their peers Develop and build Culture
characteristics of art Bloom's: analyzing appropriate mastery in PGC:Explain, compare
Numeracy: Spatial Standard: Reflect art-making skills using and justify that the visual
relationship/proportion GLE: Artists interpret traditional and new arts are connected to
PGC: Analyze, interpret, connections to the stories technologies and an other disciplines, the
and make meaning of art told in and by works of art understanding of the other art forms, social
and design critically Art Learning: Reflection characteristics and activities, mass media,
using oral and written PGC: Recognize, expressive features of art and careers in art and
discourse demonstrate, and debate the and design non-art related arenas
place of art and design in Transfer the value of
Lesson 6 history and culture Lesson 5 visual arts to lifelong
After viewing examples, After instruction, students learning and the human
students will be able to Lesson 7 will be able to create experience
design a mask using color Using their artwork, representations of figures
and shapes to create an students will be able to and objects in a
interesting composition. clearly describe their recognizable fashion
Blooms: Create decisions and processes using their own portrait
Standard: Comprehend related to their finished and colored pencils.
GLE: Artists and viewers creation. Blooms: Creating Lesson 5
recognize characteristics Blooms: Analyzing Standard: Create Shown images, students
and expressive features Standard: Reflect GLE:Create two- and will be able to discuss
within works of art GLE: Identify that art three-dimensional work of artists portraits and how
Art Learning: Expressive represents and tells the art based on person their use of shapes and
features stories of people, places, or relevance space in the image.
PGC: Analyze, interpret, things Art learning: Blooms: Understand
and make meaning of art Art Learning: Reflect Ideation/materials Standard: Transfer
and design critically PGC: Recognize, articulate, PGC: GLE: Artists and viewers
using oral and written and implement critical Recognize, interpret, and contribute and connect to
discourse thinking in the visual arts by validate that the creative their communities
synthesizing, evaluating, process builds on the Art learning: Art culture
and analyzing visual development of ideas PGC: Explain, compare
Lesson 7 information through a process of and justify that the visual
After demonstration clay inquiry, discovery, and arts are connected to
art techniques, students Lesson 7 research other disciplines, the
will be able to understand After demonstration and Develop and build other art forms, social
shapes, lines, forms, etc. provided materials, students appropriate mastery in activities, mass media,
Blooms: Understanding will be able to invent a art-making skills using and careers in art and
Standard: Comprehend creature and habitat using traditional and new non-art related arenas
GLE: Artists and viewers clay. technologies and an
recognize characteristics Blooms: Creating understanding of the Lesson 6
and expressive features Standard: Envision/Reflect characteristics and Shown artists images,
within works of art GLE: Artists interpret expressive features of art students will be able to
Art Learning: Expressive connections to the stories and design discuss what they see
features and told in and by works of art using art vocabulary
characteristics of art Art Learning: Ideation Lesson 6 (color, shapes,
PGC: Analyze, interpret, PGC: Recognize, After demonstration, repetition)
and make meaning of art demonstrate, and debate the SWBAT cut and paste Bloom's: Analyzing
and design critically place of art and design in materials properly Standard: Transfer
using oral and written history and culture Blooms: Creating GLE: Artists and viewers
discourse Standard: Create contribute and connect to
GLE: Create two- and their communities
Lesson 8 Lesson 8 three-dimensional works Art Learning: Art Culture
After demonstration and Upon completion of the of art based on personal PGC: Explain, compare
discussion, students will painting process, students relevance and justify that the visual
be able to discuss and will be able to discuss his or Art Learning: Tools and arts are connected to
demonstrate how color her own use of color and Materials other disciplines, the
communicates painting technique PGC:Recognize, other art forms, social
information interpret, and validate activities, mass media,
Blooms: Evaluating Blooms: Analyzing that the creative process and careers in art and
Standard: Comprehend Standard: Reflect builds on the development non-art related arenas
GLE: Artists and viewers GLE: Identify that art of ideas through a Transfer the value of
recognize characteristics represents and tells the process of inquiry, visual arts to lifelong
and expressive features stories of people, places, or discovery, and research learning and the human
within works of art things Develop and build experience
Art Learning: Expressive Art Learning: appropriate mastery in
features and Conceptual/ideation/person art-making skills using Lesson 7
characteristics of art al grounding traditional and new Given examples of
(Elements/principles of Numeracy/Literacy/Technol technologies and an ceramic art, students will
art) ogy: Verbal Discussion understanding of the be able to describe clay as
Numeracy/Literacy/Techn PGC: Recognize, characteristics and an art medium and as an
ology: Verbal Discussion demonstrate, and debate the expressive features of art element in familiar
PGC: Analyze, interpret, place of art and design in and design objects.
and make meaning of art history and culture Blooms: Evaluating
and design critically Lesson 6 Standard: Transfer
using oral and written After demonstration, GLE: Artists and viewers
discourse SWBAT Investigate contribute and connect to
Recognize, different design their communities
articulate, and debate arrangements to find an Art Learning: Critical
that the visual arts are a interesting composition reflection/aesthetics/trans
means for expression Blooms: Analyzing fer
Standard: Create PGC: Explain, compare
GLE: Create two- and and justify that the visual
three-dimensional works arts are connected to
of art based on personal
relevance
Art Learning: Ideation
PGC:Recognize,
interpret, and validate
that the creative process
builds on the development
of ideas through a
process of inquiry,
discovery, and research
Develop and build
appropriate mastery in
art-making skills using
traditional and new
technologies and an
understanding of the
characteristics and
expressive features of art
and design
Lesson 7
After demonstration and
provided materials,
students will be able to
invent a creature and
habitat using clay.
Blooms: Creating
Standard: Envision
GLE: Artists interpret
connections to the stories
told in and by works of
art
Art Learning: Ideation
PGC: Recognize,
demonstrate, and debate
the place of art and
design in history and
culture
other disciplines, the
other art forms, social
activities, mass media,
and careers in art and
non-art related arenas
Lesson 8
After discussion, students
will be able to discuss the
relationship between their
own ceramic art and other
ceramic objects in their
lives
Blooms: Understanding
Standard: Transfer
GLE: Artists and viewers
contribute and connect to
their communities
Art Learning: Critical
reflection/aesthetics/trans
fer
Numeracy/Literacy/Techn
ology: Verbal Discussion
PGC: Explain, compare
and justify that the visual
arts are connected to
other disciplines, the
other art forms, social
activities, mass media,
and careers in art and
non-art related arenas

Lesson 8
After demonstration,
student will be able to use
color and painting
technique to elaborate and
define the features of their
ceramic art
Blooms: Creating
Standard: Create
GLE: Create two- and
three-dimensional work of
art based on person
relevance
Art Learning:
Materials(s)/technique(s)
Numeracy/Literacy/Techn
ology: N/A
PGC:
Recognize, interpret, and
validate that the creative
process builds on the
development of ideas
through a process of
inquiry, discovery, and
research
Develop and build
appropriate mastery in
art-making skills using
traditional and new
technologies and an
understanding of the
characteristics and
expressive features of art
and design