Lesson Plan
Standards
1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend
2. Envision and Critique to Reflect
3. Invent and Discover to Create
4. Relate and Connect to Transfer
Performance
The NSSA, or National Society of Spirit Animals is looking for original images of spirit animals from around the country. You have decided that you would like to send them a piece of artwork that communicates who you are through your spirit animal. They have so guidelines they would like you to follow while creating your image. It must be original and personal to you and there needs to be a foreground, middle ground, and background. Since you have been practicing your digital drawing skills you have decided that you want to do your entire spirit animal image digitally! Time to get started!
Concepts
Composition
Techniques-Photoshop
Symbol
Fore ground, middle ground, background
Composition
Enduring Understandings
Understanding of Photoshop techniques and the use of a spirit animal as a symbol for a self portrait.
Symbolism plays a role in the way images are viewed and perceived.
Objectives
1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend
2. Envision and Critique to Reflect
3. Invent and Discover to Create
4. Relate and Connect to Transfer
Performance
The NSSA, or National Society of Spirit Animals is looking for original images of spirit animals from around the country. You have decided that you would like to send them a piece of artwork that communicates who you are through your spirit animal. They have so guidelines they would like you to follow while creating your image. It must be original and personal to you and there needs to be a foreground, middle ground, and background. Since you have been practicing your digital drawing skills you have decided that you want to do your entire spirit animal image digitally! Time to get started!
Concepts
Composition
Techniques-Photoshop
Symbol
Fore ground, middle ground, background
Composition
Enduring Understandings
Understanding of Photoshop techniques and the use of a spirit animal as a symbol for a self portrait.
Symbolism plays a role in the way images are viewed and perceived.
Objectives
- After watching Youtube tutorial videos, students will be able to verbally communicate what they found interesting about using Phootshop as a tool to draw digitally.
- Using Adobe Photoshop, students will be able to digitally draw an image of a spirit animal that communicates personal qualities.
- After a class discussion about foreground, middle ground, and backgrounds, students will be able to create an environment for their spirit animal that is either natural to the animal or personal to the student.
- Using worksheets, students will be able to verbally communicate and describe characteristics from their spirit animal descriptions that best applied to them,
- During a gallery walk, students will be able to verbally communicate ways that they perceive their peers spirit animals.