Weaving Intro
TITLE: WEAVING INTRODUCTION
Author: Zachary Baggett
Year: 2016 Artform:
Visual Art Grade: 2nd
Duration: 50 Min session
SUPPLIES, EQUIPMENT AND RESOURCES
Document Camera Power Point or Imagery that can be projected to show examples of woven artworks
Construction Paper Base piece: 6" x 8": 1 per student
Strands for weaving: cut to 8" x 3/4" : A handful per student with various colors for pattern making
FINE ART STANDARDS
Grade 2: Students will relate artistic skills, ideas, and work with personal meaning and external context (Standards 2.V.CO.1–2). Standard 2.V.CO.2: Compare and contrast cultural uses of artwork from different times and places.
Grade 3: Standard 3.V.P.3: Identify and explain how and where different cultures record and illustrate stories and history of life through art.
INTEGRATED STANDARDS
Grade 2: Social Studies Standard 1: Objective 2 Students will explain ways American Indians and immigrants have shaped both Utah's and America's culture (e.g., names of places, food, customs, celebrations). Explain ways people respect and pass on their traditions and customs.
Grade 3 Objective 3 Analyze ways cultures use, maintain, and preserve the physical environment.Identify ways people use the physical environment (e.g. agriculture, recreation, energy, industry). Compare changes in the availability and use of natural resources over time. Describe ways to conserve and protect natural resources (e.g. reduce, reuse, recycle). Compare perspectives of various communities toward the natural environment.
Objective 2 c. Identify how indigenous people maintain cultural traditions today.
TEACHING AND TIMELINE
INTRODUCTION (10 Min)
Welcome Class. Display images or video of woven baskets and or blankets. Assess what students know about weaving. Show how weaving is an intregal part of many cultures globally. Point out the use of pattern. Show objects that can be made from weaving. Discuss how traditions and skills are passed down through generations. Discuss thanksgiving traditions. Discuss how converging cultures cooperated and shared ideas and knowledge as well as food.
DEMONSTRATION (5 Min)
Show first step of weaving process by laying out simple pattern horizontally on base paper. Show how to glue only the left side down on the strips that overlay the base paper horizontally. (10 Min) Work time for students. Walk around room to help students that are struggling with step one and to informally assess understanding of procedure. (5 Min) Demonstration Time: Using the document camera, show how to weave strips of paper over and under the existing horizontal strips of paper. The new strips are laid down vertically. The vertical strips alternate between starting in an over position, and starting in an under position. Show how vertical strips should be pushed to line up on the left side, right next to each other. (10 Min) Work time for students. Walk around class, helping students with weaving process.
OBJECTIVES
Learners will explore practical usages for art making Learners will tie their art making process to cultural traditions Learners will review their understanding of Thanksgiving traditions with context of cultural influences (5 Min) Show how to fasten loose ends to back of paper using doc camera. Assist students in completing final step.
WORK PERIOD Work Period is intertwined with demonstration process for this lesson.
CLOSURE/SUMMARY 5 Min Finalize woven pocket and clean up.
INTEGRATION INFORMATION The primary emphasis of this lesson is on tactile construction of practical objects using culturally significant processes.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How did people make what they needed before machines and grocery stores? How do we learn traditions? How are traditions and patterns related to culture? Why is learning about new cultures and new processes important?
DIFFERENTIATION Several teaching strategies are used including: 1. Oral lecture, with direct instruction and active response. 2. Visual display, including live demonstration. 3. Individual instruction and feedback. 4. Motor skill observation and help.
HISTORICAL ELEMENT Images of woven objects from various cultures.
VOCABULARY Weave Weaving Woven Tradition Culture
ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES Informal observation of student ability to retain directions and to physically manipulate paper into woven structure
OTHER INFORMATION If the lesson is continued into another session follow up with a review of culturally significant practices, including weaving, but also discuss the use of dance, music, cooking etc. If still around Thanksgiving time, discuss how these practices inform our Thanksgiving traditions, particularly in regards to traditional festive foods. Alternatively, continue a unit on weaving, by introducing an alternative weaving tool, such as a loom with yarn.
