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Brave New Face

Who in the World Unit

Elena Greer and Jason Schnaiedt

Grade 5 (Can be adapted for other grade levels)

 

Title: Brave New Face

Lesson #3

Time Frame: Two 1 hour sessions

 

Key Concepts:

  • What do the different colors mean to Indians?
  • The specific art content that this lesson emphasizes creation from imagination, balance and composition unity.

 

Essential Questions:

  • How do colors convey emotions?
  • How does painting your face change your identity?

 

Lesson Objectives:

  • The student will better able to connect the relevance between colors, shapes and signs in artwork.

 

Resources and Materials for Teacher:

  • Images of Native Americans’ face and body paint (attached)
  • Examples of symbols (attached)
  • Hypoallergenic face soap

 

Resources and Materials for Students:

  • Face paint
  • Sketching paper
  • Markers

 

Instruction:

Day One:

Introduction/Motivation: 30 mins

  • Play the sound of an Indian war drum while students enter to pique interest. Pull in previous lesson ideas during discussion.

 

Guided Practice:  20 mins

  • The students will practice on paper their designs.
  • The teacher circulates amongst tables to assist, offer suggestions, and encouragement on an individual level.

 

 

 

Closure:  10 mins

  • Ask what they learned today, and what problems they had and how their feelings play an important role in self identity.
  • For homework, students will write a brief paragraph on what their face painting means, either personally or in a story format.

 

Day Two:

Introduction/Motivation: 5 mins

  • Play the sound of an Indian war drum while students enter. Have students pair off to begin face painting.
  • Review classroom rules and clean up procedures.

 

Guided Practice:  30 mins

  • The teacher will ask questions to students to relate it to their lives and experiences to make it more personal.
  • The teacher circulates amongst tables to assist, offer suggestions, and encouragement on an individual level.
  • Teacher should examine the students’ sketches before they can move on to the face painting process.  

 

Independent Practice:  30 mins

  • The students will then pair up and help paint each other’s face.

 

Closure:  25 mins

  • After all the students have completed their paintings, the class will gather in a circle and the students will guess what the others’ paint means. The students have the option of sharing their writings.

 

Evaluation:

  • Wraparound: Participants form a circle.
  • Students will describe and guess the meaning behind the other face paintings.
    • Each individual takes a turn telling:
      • Something he will remember from today
      • A significant AHA! from this session
      • Something he will remember from today

 

TEKS

  • (1) Perception. The student develops and organizes ideas from the environment. The student is expected to:
    • communicate ideas about feelings, self, family, school, and community, using sensory knowledge and life experiences; and
    • Identify in artworks that color, texture, form, line, space, and value are basic art elements and that the principles such as emphasis, pattern, rhythm, balance, proportion, and unity serve as organizers

 

  • (2) By analyzing artistic styles and historical periods students develop respect for the traditions and contributions of diverse cultures. Students respond to and analyze artworks, thus contributing to the development of lifelong skills of making informed judgments and evaluations.

 

  • (3) Historical/cultural heritage. The student demonstrates an understanding of art history and culture as records of human achievement. The student is expected to:
    • compare artworks from several national periods, identifying similarities and differences;
    • compare cultural themes honoring history and traditions in American and other artworks; and
    • Identify the use of art skills in a variety of jobs.

 

 

 

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Color

Meaning for Native Americans

Black

night, underworld, male, cold, disease, death

Blue

sky, water, female, clouds, lightning, moon, thunder, sadness

Green

plant life, earth, summer, rain

Red

wounds, sunset, thunder, blood, earth, war, day

Yellow

sunshine, day, dawn

White

winter, death, snow

 

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