INSTRUMENTALIST THEORY ADAPTION
Teachers: Whitney Gasser
Grade: 1
Time needed: 45 min.
Objective: Students will understand how art can be a tool for teaching by seeing instrumentalist art samples, analyzing the lessons taught in some books that use art, and creating their own work or art that will convey a lesson using found objects.
State Standards- Math:
Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.
1. Order three objects by length; compare the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object.
Objective 3 in Language Arts: Develop and use skills to communicate ideas, information, and feelings.
National Standards:
Fine Arts: Making Connections Between Art and Other Disciplines.
#6. Students identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.
Lesson:
Materials needed:
Powerpoint Presentation
The Empty Pot by Demi
Caldecott award winner books
Paper
Glue
Colored construction paper and scraps
1)Explain instrumentalist theory: art is used as a tool for teaching
QUESTION: How do you think art can teach? Can you think of some examples?
See examples from Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Norman Rockwell, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Note: Check with your school’s administrators and parents to see if some of these images would be allowed to be displayed.
Algerian Women in Their Apartments, by Eugene Delacroix.
The Shootings of May 3, 1808 by Francisco Goya.
The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell
Peter Pumpkin Eater, by Maxfield Parrish
2)Activity with The Empty Pot by Demi
Talk about what this book is trying to teach. Why is being honest important?
3. Go through the book and look at the different sizes of flowers. As a class compare the hight of each of the flowers. Have students do this worksheet on comparing length.
4) Introduction to art activity: View video from El Anatsui, and his art using found objects. He teaches something through his pieces.
Question: What do you think he is teaching through his art?
Watch this video clip about the process and the meaning behind his artwork.
5) Show a prototype of torn flower art.
6) Students will now create their own art following this open-ended prompt:
Create 3 different flower pots by using scraps and torn pieces of construction paper. Feel free to be creative and any other types of medium you find in the classroom.
7)Assessment: Students share their work and explain which flower is the shortest, longest, and the one in between.
8) Provide each student with a cup of dirt and a seed. Plant the seeds as a class and place them in the window seal for an ongoing science project.
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