Grade 5 Essential Question: Why do we share stories?
Grade 5 Art Curriculum: Key Concepts
Phoebe D., grade 5, Spring 2012
Clay: Pinch, review techniques for joining (score, slip, smoosh, smooth)
Depth: Foreground/middle ground/background, literal and figurative landscape
Portraiture: Review of realistic human proportions
Color Theory: Color wheel review (primary, secondary, tertiary, complement, neutrals, tints and shades)
Printmaking: collograph
Sculpture: plaster
Art As Communication: Visual narratives
Art History, Curricular Connections: Poetry, tessellations, literature (Roald Dahl, Holes, etc.)
Other art skills: drawing animals, sequential art
Other concepts: abstraction, global environmental awareness
Depth: Foreground/middle ground/background, literal and figurative landscape
Portraiture: Review of realistic human proportions
Color Theory: Color wheel review (primary, secondary, tertiary, complement, neutrals, tints and shades)
Printmaking: collograph
Sculpture: plaster
Art As Communication: Visual narratives
Art History, Curricular Connections: Poetry, tessellations, literature (Roald Dahl, Holes, etc.)
Other art skills: drawing animals, sequential art
Other concepts: abstraction, global environmental awareness