paint sticks, crayons, heavyweight paper, construction paper, scissors, glue, visual aids, and "The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau" by Michelle Markel.
pencils
white board and table to prepare materials
- I can discuss the central themes in the children's book "The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau" by Michelle Markel. - I can discuss the characteristics of various habitats across the globe, such as the rainforest, the desert, the alpine, the woodlands, and the marine. - I can create a well-proportioned artwork using lines, shapes, and repetition with crayons. -I can use color to express a feeling. - I can point out my chosen habitat, its wildlife, and flora.
Day One: Students will explore the history, culture, and techniques of artist Henri Rousseau using the children's book "The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau" by Michelle Markel. They will study different habitats such as rainforests, deserts, alpine regions, woodlands, and marine environments, paying close attention to the unique characteristics of each, including their plant and animal life. During this study, students will choose a habitat they feel connected to and use paint sticks to create their environment while using color to express their emotions, integrating social and emotional learning (SEL) into the activity.
Day Two: On the second day, students will review the previous day's lesson, focusing on the concept of "What is a habitat?" Afterwards, they will create their own creatures using construction paper and place them in their chosen habitats. During this activity, students will learn how to use overlapping shapes to make their creatures. Finally, they will present their artwork, explain their chosen habitats and the creatures living in them, and describe the colors they used to express emotions.
Volunteers can help hand out supplies and support students in their composition.
Grade K
Kindergarten: Mathematics: Geometry: Identify and describe shapes: Cluster #2. Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.
Kindergarten: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #3 With prompting and support, identify characters, setting and major events in a story.
Kindergarten: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 1.ka Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials
Kindergarten: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 1.ka Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art making.
Grade 1
Grade 1: Mathematics: Geometry: Reason with shapes and their attributes: Cluster #1. Distinguish between defining attributes versus non-defining attributes; build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes.
Grade 1: Reading Standards for Literature: Craft and Structure #6: Students Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.
Grade 1: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 1.1a Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials.
Grade 1: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 1.2a Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design.
Grade 2
Grade 2: Mathematics: Geometry: Reason with shapes and their attributes: Cluster #1. Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and cubes.
Grade 2: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Grade 2: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 2.2a Make art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions and curiosity.
Grade 2: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 1.2a Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
Grade 3
Grade 3: Mathematics: Geometry: Reason with shapes and their attributes: Cluster #1. Understand that shapes in different categories may share attributes and that the shared attributes can define a larger category. Recognize rhombuses, rectangles and squares as examples of quadrilaterals and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories.
Grade 3: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #3: Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Grade 3: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 1.3a Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
Grade 3: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 1.3a Create Personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials.
Grade 4
Grade 4: Mathematics: Geometry: Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles: Cluster #3 Recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure as a line across the figure such that the figure can be folded along the line into matching parts. Identify line-symmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry.
Grade 4: Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details #3: Describe in depth a character, setting or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.
Grade 4: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 1.4a Brainstorm multiple approaches to a creative art of design problem.
Grade 4: Visual Art: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 2.4a When making works of art, utilize and care for materials, tools and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself and others.
