Art 2 · Week 8 · Experimentation and Material Mastery
Material and Mood
Experimenting with an unfamiliar material, students notice how its texture and resistance change their mood and their marks.
- Students will
- Students experiment with an unfamiliar material and notice how its texture and resistance change their mood and their marks.
- SEL skill
- Notice a mood or body sign while working and connect it to the marks made
- What it looks like
- Students notice their own moods and body reactions while working and connect them to the marks they make.
- Content focus
- Material and mood
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is recognizing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and how they influence your behavior. 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:Cr2.1.HSII: Visual Arts, Creating, Anchor Standard 2 (Organize and develop artistic ideas and work), High School Accomplished
- Artistic process: Creating
- 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.
- 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.
- Beauty in the Everyday Self-awarenessStudents sketch overlooked beauty around campus and describe the feelings it stirs.
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