Art 1 · Week 23 · Principles of Design and Critique
Rhythm and Repetition
Creating a pattern design through repetition, students connect steady practice to building a habit.
- Students will
- Students make a pattern design by repeating a shape and experimenting with variations in size, spacing, or rotation without a fixed plan.
- SEL skill
- Set a tiny daily sketch goal and plan when to do it
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-management by setting a tiny daily pattern sketch goal and naming when they will do it.
- Content focus
- Rhythm and repetition
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-management
Self-management is handling your emotions, thoughts, and actions so you can set goals and keep working toward them. More self-management activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- VA:Cr2.1.HSI: Visual Arts, Creating, Anchor Standard 2 (Organize and develop artistic ideas and work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Creating
- Level: High School Proficient
More self-management activities for Art 1
- Blind Contour and Letting Go Self-managementDrawing a blind contour of a partner's hand without looking, students notice the urge to control the result and practice breathing through frustration.
- Beautiful Mistakes Self-managementStudents turn an ink blot or torn paper scrap into a finished image and reflect on how mistakes can open new directions.
- Value and Slowing Down Self-managementCreating a slow value scale from light to dark, students use steady shading as a calming practice and notice its effect on stress.
- Balance in Art and Life Self-managementAnalyzing symmetrical and asymmetrical balance, students map the balance of their own week and adjust one area that feels heavy.
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