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Lesson Plan Template

Teacher: Miss Enos Date: 4/19/17
Subject: Art Grade Level: 6
Title of Lesson: Georgia OKeefe Flowers Lesson Length:
Overview of the Lesson
Lesson Summary:
In this lesson the students will learn about the life and work of Georgia OKeefe and will be
drawing close ups of flowers.
Massachusetts Framework Standards:
1.5 Expand the repertoire of 2D and 3D art processes, techniques, and materials with a focus on the range
of effects possible within each medium.
1.7 Use the appropriate vocabulary related to the methods, materials, and techniques students have learned
and used in grades PreK 8.
1.7 Maintain the workspace, materials, and tools responsibly and safely.
2.7 For color, use and be able to identify hues, values, intermediate shades, tints, tones, complementary,
analogous, and monochromatic colors.
2.11 For space and composition, create unified 2D and 3D compositions that demonstrate an understanding
of balance, repetition, rhythm, scale, proportion, unity, harmony, and emphasis. Create 2D compositions
that give the illusion of 3D space and volume.
Lesson Objectives: The students will be able to create a Georgia OKeefe inspired drawing of a
close up of a flower using oil pastels.
Materials/Equipment to be Used in Teaching the Lesson:
- Paper
- Pencils
- Pictures of flowers
- Oil pastels
Enduring Understandings:
Big Ideas: The students will understand that
- Who Georgia OKeefe is and her impact on the art world.
Concepts:
- Shape, space, blending, value
Essential Questions:
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Content
Factual Content:
Georgia OKeefe
Vocabulary:
Tier 1:
Tier 2:
Blending, Value, Shape, Space, Color, Emphasis, Unity
Tier 3:
Georgia OKeefe, Oil Pastels
Critical Thinking Skills (Reading, Writing, Speech, Listening)
The students will be critically listening to the video about Georgia OKeefe at the beginning of the
lesson. The students will be critically thinking when blowing their flowers up.
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Assessments (Performance Tasks/Tests/Quizzes Formative/Summative, Informal/Formal)
The teacher will be giving a performance task assessment based on the students work.

Action/Instructional Procedures

Procedures: For each procedure, list the teacher or student actions (with accommodations and
modifications) as well as the anticipated amount of time it will take to accomplish each task.

Anticipatory Set: (hook)

o The teacher will begin by showing the students a video about the life of Georgia
OKeefe focusing in on her flowers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AY9rDB-WBk
The teacher will then bring the students over to one table to show them a demonstration.
o Showing the students how to blow a picture up and how to blend the oil pastels.
Students will look through the printed pictures of flowers and choose one to blow up.
The teacher will give the students the option of using a view finder to find the area of the
flower that they want to draw.
The Students will draw a light sketch of their blown up flower.
They will then begin coloring their flowers in with oil pastels making sure to blend the
colors.
They will finish their flowers by adding in details with darker oil pastels.
Closure:
o The students will go up and show the class their close up drawing and the flower
that they we