Art 1 · Week 16 · Culture, Memory, and Celebration
Symbols of Who We Are
Students design a personal symbol drawn from family, language, or place and explain the feelings it holds.
- Students will
- Students use more than one approach to start a personal symbol, push past their first idea, and refine one design drawn from family, language, or place.
- SEL skill
- Name a feeling a symbol holds and link it to a design choice
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-awareness by naming the feelings a symbol holds and how those feelings shape their choices.
- Content focus
- Symbols of who we are
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is recognizing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and seeing how they shape what you do. More self-awareness 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:Cr1.1.HSI: Visual Arts, Creating, Anchor Standard 1 (Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Creating
- Level: High School Proficient
More self-awareness activities for Art 1
- I Am an Artist Self-awarenessStudents sketch a visual map of the places, people, and images that shape them and name the artist identity they bring into Art 1.
- Line and Mood Self-awarenessStudents draw lines that express calm, anger, and joy and connect how the body feels each emotion to the marks they make.
- Color and Feeling Self-awarenessStudents test how color palettes shift mood and question whether color meanings are universal or cultural.
- Semester Reflection Self-awarenessStudents lay out their semester work, write about how their skills and feelings toward art have changed, and name what they are proud of.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.