Art 2 · Week 23 · Critique and Revision
Beauty in the Everyday
Students sketch overlooked beauty around campus and describe the feelings it stirs.
- Students will
- Students sketch an overlooked beautiful detail on campus using observation and describe the personal aesthetic response it stirs.
- SEL skill
- Name the feeling a place or object stirs while observing it closely
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-awareness by noticing and naming the feelings that a place or object brings up.
- Content focus
- Beauty in the Everyday
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means recognizing your own emotions and thoughts and how they shape what you notice and choose. 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:Re7.1.HSII: Visual Arts, Responding, Anchor Standard 7 (Perceive and analyze artistic work), High School Accomplished
- Artistic process: Responding
- Level: High School Accomplished
More self-awareness activities for Art 2
- My Artistic Voice Self-awarenessStudents revisit a past artwork, name what still feels true about it, and formulate a new creative problem that grows from their own voice.
- Material and Mood Self-awarenessExperimenting with an unfamiliar material, students notice how its texture and resistance change their mood and their marks.
- Research Through Art Self-awarenessStudents use observation and experimentation to investigate an unfamiliar desert subject and record the questions and feelings it raises.
- Semester Reflection Self-awarenessStudents review their semester work and write about the risks, growth, and feelings that shaped their artistic voice.
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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.