1. Concepts in Art
by Marie Max
Grade 9
4.5 hours per week

2. Concept
Two dimensional and three dimensional
concepts and manipulation of multiple media
Application of elements and principles

3. Theme
Drawing Media
•Essential Question: How is different media applied to
produce elements of art?
•Elements of art
•Skills: Material understanding and application, line,
value
•Process: use multiple drawing media to express
elements and principles in art
•Habits of mind: follow directions
•Resources:
•Pencil
•Charcoal
•Pastel
•Painting
•3 D color wheel
•Time: 2 weeks
•Assessment: application, student self assess
•Pa Standards AH9.1.8.C. 9.1.8.H. 9.2.8.C. 9.2.8.L.
Math2.3a,b,cR/WR1.4, 1.5, 1.6
•Cost: $
•Reference: Lascaux Caves

5. Theme: Space
Can simple shapes create space and symbolism?
• Students will design images with positive and negative space.
• 1.Create a pattern or image in black and white positive and
negative. Non-representational.
• 2. Students will draw, cut, glue, and color shapes with/without
texture or value. Representational.
• 3. Create a symbolic image with color. Representational and non-
representational (figurative/non-figurative)
• 4. three dimensional (windowed)
Skill: Drawing, Gluing, cutting, balance, design, craftsmanship
• Materials: paper, exacto, glue, pencil, eraser
Habits of Mind: Clarifying direction, express creativity
• Peer and student self-assess
• Standards: 9.1, 9.2, 9.4a, 1.4b, 2.3a,b,c
• Time: 4 weeks
• Reference: Asian shadow puppets, Notan, international flags
• Cost: $

7. Theme: Shape
Essential Question: How can an image contain the elements of art if it
is distorted?
• Contour drawing
• Collage: Shape, color, symbolism. Absract an existing image.
Investigation of meaning.
• Portrait and lanscape, 3d
Skills: Create line drawings and Replace line or realistic qualities
w/abstraction
• Create line drawings using contour line elements
• Use of balance, pattern, emphasis
• cutting, pasting for multiples and abstraction
• Manipulation of shape
• Distortion
• Cubism, Picasso, Braque
• Culture and Identity
• History of line and pattern
• Harlem Renaissance
Materials: pencils, paper, magazines, newpaper, colored
paper, cardboard, paint, glue
Habits of Mind: Exercising creativity and originality
• Standards: 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4a, 9.4c,1.4b
• Cost: $

8. Theme
Value
How can value, line, and texture create the illusion of form?
• Portrait, Landscape, Still Life
• Learn about different pencil, charcoal, and pastel
media and papers, Explore the materials
• Study elements of line, value, and texture
• Create a diorama of landscape
Skills: Apply different techniques Interior and exterior
effects of light on an object
• Learn how to interpret the effects of light in nature
• Understand foreground, mid-ground, background, and
atmospheric perspective, unity, rythmn
Habits of Mind: Follow directions, explore creativity and
originality, deliberativeness
• Assessment: craftsmanship, application of
ideas, student, peer, and teacher
• Pa Standards AH9.1.8.C. 9.1.8.H. 9.2.8.C. 9.2.8.L.
• 3.1, 3.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
• Time: 9 Weeks
• Materials- pencil-charcoal- pastel, paper, erasers
• Reference: Goya (Modernist), Monet
(Impressionist), Chris Van Allsburg (Story book
illustrator)
• Cost: $S

9. Theme
Texture
• How do you connect different concepts of space and
time with elements of art?
• Connecting ideas through drawing
• Express time and place in communication and narration
through visual art forms
• Postcards
• Posters
• Inter-active Media, e-cards, imovies, youtube
• Explore abstract ideas of space and form and connect
them in a 2 dimensional format
• Skill: draw with application of textures
• Communication and symbols through media
• Discuss history of postcards and posters
• Apply modern forms of visual narration via digital media
• Materials:
pencils, erasers, markers, paint, photoshop, power point
imovie
• Reference: Bauhaus, Deco, movie posters, digital media
art
• Time: 9 weeks
• Pa Standards AH9.1.8.C. 9.1.8.H. 9.2.8.C. 9.2.8.L.
WR1.4, 1.5, 1.6
• Cost;: $$

10. Theme: Form
Can ideas and meaning be abstracted into 3 dimensional
constructions?
• Create a narrative assemblage sculptures.
– Relief
– Three Dimension
– Environmental
• Design a layout plan of the sculpture and support.
Skills: Craftsmanship, Design, balance, color, unity
• Materials: found objects, plaster, glue, wire, nature
Habits of Mind: Explore Creativity and Originality
• References: Duchamp, Isaiah Zagar, Louise Nevelson, Pheobe
Washburn, Andy Glodsworthy
• Pa Standards AH9.1.8.C. 9.1.8.H. 9.2.8.C. 9.2.8.L.
• 4 weeks
• Cost: $