2020-21 PYP 5 UNIT How We Express Ourselves
2020-21 PYP 5 UNIT How We Express Ourselves
2020-21 PYP 5 UNIT How We Express Ourselves
Grade/Year level: 5th Grade (10-11 yr Collaborative teaching team: Ms Asima, Ms Carmela, Ms Hira( VA )
olds)
Transdisciplinary theme
(Type Transdisciplinary theme here.)
How We Express Ourselves
Central idea
Art is created as a means of personal and collective expressions.
Lines of inquiry
● The usage of art to represent our ideas and feelings
● The aesthetic process that we use to create art
● Sharing and reflecting on artistic genres
Approaches to learning
Research-All aspects of research will be included during the Exhibition.
Begin analyzing Central Idea and Lines of Inquiry = Main Idea and Supporting Details
Prior learning
Interest survey-Students will answer questions on an interest survey so that teachers can easily assess what they know
Aligned to some topics in science, social studies, math and reading that have been previously studied
Learning Goal: Students will communicate a problem in the world and advocate for a solution.
● Influence other classmates, school mates, community members to make a change in their choices or views
● Influence innovation and technology to solve problems that affect the community or world
Teacher questions
What function do arts have in the community?
How can we use arts to express ourselves?
How can you ‘tell’ if your artistic expressions are successful?
Why do people dance? (dance)
What are different forms of art expression?
Where and how do artists get their inspiration to create their artworks?
How can we define artist’s identity from his/her artworks?
What influences an artist has to express his/her identity into his/her artworks?
How do my uniqueness/character influence the work I produce?
How do I produce my artwork?
Student questions
Collaborative teaching team: Ms Asima, Ms Carmela, Ms Hira( VA ) Grade/Year level: 5th (10-11 yrs)
2. Students will compare 2 different artworks from the same art form, but from different artists to show understanding of how artworks reflect on the artist's identity.
Then, students write some paragraphs concluding the artist's identity from their chosen artwork using Thinking Hats:
Red Hats activity: focused questions (perspective): what kind of feelings involved in the arts? what makes you feel?
White hats activity: focused questions (forms): what kind of art is it? what elements of arts being used, who paint it, when, where?
Blue Hats activity: focused questions (function, connection): how is it painted, how did the artist get inspiration? Think about materials, equipment and tool to paint. Consider about the background story of the painting
which related to the artist life.
Green hats activity: focused questions (reflection,perspective): how to make it better?
Black, and Yellow? (use these too if there is any possibility)
Inquire into the methods and techniques film makers use to show and provoke emotions(camera angles, camera movements, sepia, black and white, slow motion, use of music etc.) Inquire into storyboards and develop own
storyboards for a silent film.
Inquire into structures and features of short stories and poetry focusing on how emotions are expressed.
Identify language and strategies used in writing narratives and poetry. Students produce a short story based on student criteria.
Student can somewhat describe reasons she/he chose to do the artwork; how s/he envisions the final product and can describe some of the steps s/he will use to reach the goal.
Focused with some planning.
Ongoing assessment
Rubrics
Self Reflections
linksElement of art
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/explore.cfm
http://www2.frederick.k12.va.us/wq/art7elmt/index.htm
Forms of art
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/different-forms-of-art.html
http://ownart.org.uk/exploring-different-art-forms
http://www.canleyvale.hs.education.nsw.gov.au/Winning%20websites/art/toa.htm
Styles of art
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001159/artstyle.htm
Content: (eg. Test, quiz, presentation) Poetry, Arts and the isms / dance )
Process: (eg. Demo or explanation, movie, presentation, written, visual or verbal) Documentary/Movie, poems, vocabulary, novel.
Product: (eg. model, movie, presentation) Write original poems in various styles, Collage of art isms., models/sculpture, recorder performance, a 3-minute film that depicts or provokes emotion without using speech. Your
film will use music, different camera angles and acting your audience will be fellow students.
Gr concepts: sense verbs and adjectives, infinitive as a subject, homophones, quantifiers, verb and preposition, punctuation( semicolon )
History: History around us chapter 5 will strengthen the role of Art with the reflection Sindh culture