An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan
Date: May 21, 1998
Grade Level(s): 4, 5, 6
Subject(s):
Flowers are something we see almost everyday especially with this time being Spring. To know the parts of a flower can help you understand the way they grow and reproduce. The art project that we will be doing combines science into art. This will bring two lessons into one and will make it fun for the children to learn.
Goal: Students will learn the parts of a flower and will learn about symmetrics, visual placements, and using guidelines.
Objectives:
Background Information:
This project should be used with students who have some experience withdrawing. Most children by fourth grade should have some background knowledge of art. Basically it will help the students learn the flower without having to be a gifted artist.
Concepts:
Students will be able to:
1) relate the drawing of their flower to the parts of a perfect flower.
2) relate to symmetry, visual placement, and guidelines.
Materials:
Procedure:
1) After a lesson on the parts of a flower, start this activity.
2) Explain to the students that visual placement is being able to complete a picture so that both sides/halves are equal or proportionate.
3) The object is to complete one half of the flower so it is like a mirror image to the other half.
4) Give the half picture to the students so that they can see the flower they will be drawing. They will notice from previous experience that you can cut a flower in half and they look almost exactly alike.
5) Have the students draw exactly on the opposite side the same thing, so that when they are finished it will look like a mirror image. They will notice this in the perfect flower also.
6) While the students are working on the drawing, make sure that they are getting the spacing almost the same. They may use fingers or pencils to measure.
7) When completed with the drawing, have the students look at it and do "a comparison with both sides to see if it came out like a mirror image.
8) Next, have them compare their drawing to a perfect flower.
9) Once finished with comparing, see if they can name the parts of their flower or the perfect flower.
Assessment:
1) Ask the students to explain what symmetry is.
2) Ask the students if their drawing looked like a mirror image to the original half.
3) Ask the students how their drawing compared to the perfect flower.
4) Ask the students if they can name the parts of a flower.