Color Wheel

Lesson Plan

Title: Color Wheel
Grade level: 1-3
Suggested Time: 1 Class period
Unit: African culture
Medium: Paper cutting

Instructional Objectives:

• Students will demonstrate appropriate use of scissors. 
• Students will produce art work that communicates through elements and key principals. 

Elements of art:
Shape, space, and color.

Principles of design:
Balance and contrast

Materials:
Scissors, Paper plate, markers, and string

Vocabulary:
color wheel, symmetrical,

Art Production. 
 1. Talk about the color wheel
2. Tell students they will be making a necklace using the color wheel.
3. Show my example.
4. Show students how to color in the paper plate.
5. Look over shoulders, check for understanding
6. Demonstrate how to cut the plate.
7. Watch students cut mask, check for understanding
8. Demonstrate how to put the plate together to create a necklace.
9. Check for understanding
10. Allow students to create an art gallery. Talk about all the necklaces.
11. Close with compliments to students, introduce next weeks art lesson.

Art History/Resources:
Book on tables, posters, and computer.

Aesthetic Questions:

• "Are necklaces art? 
• "Why do we wear jewelry?"

Art Criticism"

Show video explaining the project off of Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ7wV9DeEqw

Evaluation Criteria:

Rubric.