Lesson Title Art Form Grade Level

Flora Self-Portrait Collage 3

Grade Level Theme Key Concept Link

Culture Nature Math

Challenge

Create a paper collage self-portrait that shows your personal connection to culture through nature

Assessment Standards

PROCESS - Examine and manipulate collage media, techniques, and processes to produce well-crafted artworks

PRODUCT - Create an original cut paper collage according to the production criteria that rep-resents your connection to culture through nature

UNDERSTANDING - Explore and make connections between art and history as related to the theme of culture

Supplies and Materials POS Objectives

Selected descriptive texts Graphic Organizers Selected visuals and paper cutting charts Pencils and erasers Scissors “Funky edge” scissors Colored paper Liquid glue

• Communicate personally relevant ideas about cul-ture through a variety of subject matter including symbols

• Mount and label one artwork for display • Us proportion and placement to represent subject

matter in artworks • Recognize juxtaposition in artworks • Layer, arrange, and glue simple paper shapes to

develop a collage from background to foreground • Use paper cutting techniques including positive and

negative shapes

Time Allotment Alternate Approaches - Media

3-4 sessions Painting, printmaking, drawing

Images and Resources

Self Portrait with Bonito Self Portrait With Monkey Self Portrait With Monkeys Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo

The Codomas The Parakeet and the MermaidHenri Matisse Henri Matisse

Notes

Use Henri Matisse Paper Cut-Out exercise as a pre-assessment for this lesson

Informal Assessment: Paper-cutting technique checklist on Henri Matisse cut-out exercise

Formal Assessment: Self Evaluation/Rubric/Critique

Lesson Accommodations: • Provide face templates • Provide adaptive scissors • Display visuals on cutting techniques clearly

Lesson Modifications: • Face templates

Additional Challenges: • Add fauna to self-portrait with local birds • Ask students to include state flora and fauna outside of example

Lesson Session

Flora Self-Portrait 1

Engage

• Complete “Henri Matisse” paper cut-outs mini-lesson as a pre-assessment for cutting tech-niques

• View PowerPoint with artwork by Frida Kahlo and ask students: • What is the first thing you notice about this self-portrait? • What details does she add to her self-portrait? • What do these details tell you about her culture?

Develop

• Discuss state trees, flowers, and birds (flora and fauna) • What makes a tree and bird special to different states? • How do you relate to any of these states? • Is anyone from a country outside the United States? How does nature play a role in

your culture? • Have students plan their self portrait by selecting at least 3 types of flora that they identify

with

Create

• Direct students to select paper that best matches their facial coloring • Lead class in a step-by-step construction of a paper cut-out self-portrait

• Refer to previous proportion discussions and visuals • Start with head shape including ears and neck • Add eyes with irises and eyelids - use a sharpie to add pupil and lashes • Add nose and lips

• Demonstrate how to properly glue down all the pieces that make the face

Reflect

• Ask students to reflect on what specific flora they will choose to include in their portrait and to come to class ready to add flora details

• Students should collect any necessary visuals for following class

Lesson Session

Flora Self-Portrait 2-3

Engage

• View prototype and have students identify upcoming steps • Review Frida Kahlo’s work • Ask students to share what cultural flora they’ve decided to represent • Review paper cutting techniques - show student examples from Henri Matisse exercise and

have students identify cases of overlapping, cutting to reveal lines

Develop

• Demonstrate how to tear paper in various ways to create hair for both boys and girls, long and short hair, and eyebrows

• Demonstrate how to cut out various leaf shapes - show the importance of not discarding scraps. Take a basic leaf shape and alter it in numerous ways

• Direct students to share self-portrait in progress with a partner • Partners should discuss and make recommendations about the proportion of the face and

hair/flora choices • Refer students to the cutting techniques chart

Create

• Students create a collage self portrait and combine with a collaged mat frame to make a pa-per cut-out self-portrait inspired by the connection Frida Kahlo made between culture and nature

• Students will use a variety of paper-cutting techniques, demonstrating an understanding of at least three techniques

Reflect

• Students complete a checklist informal assessment listing the paper cutting techniques and attach it to the back of their collage

Lesson Session

Flora Self-Portrait 4

Engage

• Ask students to share how they relate to their nature choices through culture • Students complete a reflection sheet stating their personal culture, flora choices, and (if ap-

plicable) fauna choices

Develop

• Demonstrate how to add fauna for students who are ahead or working more efficiently as an added challenge

• Re-demonstrate gluing and how to attach the self-portrait to the collage mat frame

Create

• Students may finish their collages by attaching frame, adding fauna, and any necessary de-tails based on their self-assessment from the previous class to self-check their work

Reflect

• Have students update their project checklist taped to the back of their piece to self-check for formal assessment

• Complete final reflection sheet and submit with artwork

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Face Template

Face Template

Name: __________________________________ Class Code: __________

flora self-portrait reflectionWrite down something you learned about Frida Kahlo:

__________________________________________________________________________________________

What kinds of FLORA did you choose to show your connection to nature? Tell me why you chose it.

• ________________________________________________________________________________________

• ________________________________________________________________________________________

• ________________________________________________________________________________________

List the THREE different paper cutting techniques that you used:

1. ________________________________________________________________________________________

2. ________________________________________________________________________________________

3. ________________________________________________________________________________________

Did you add any fauna? (Circle one)

Yes: _____________________ No

Name: __________________________________ Class Code: __________

flora self-portrait SELF GRADINGName: _____________________________________ Code:_________________

Sound Prints self grading 1. Not Really 2.Kind Of. 3. Mostly. 4. Definitely!

I was neat with my work

1 2 3 4

I used negative space

1 2 3 4

I used color effectively

1 2 3 4

I used abstract shapes

1 2 3 4

My face looks proportional

1 2 3 4

I was neat with my work

1 2 3 4

I used a variety of cutting techniques

1 2 3 4

I made creative choices

1 2 3 4

I worked hard every class

1 2 3 4