Community Quilt
Together Kindergarten students created a collaborative community quilt. Each student used 2D materials to create a window into their own personal community and explore the ones that are significant to them. They worked together to glue down window frames, arrange their drawings, and tie together the windows into a quilt in order to visualize what it feels like to be in a greater classroom community and appreciate the similarities and differences of their classmates.
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to create a community with individual significance through collaborative artmaking.
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Students will be able to use a variety of 2D materials to create a representation of a window into a personal community space.
Learning Standards
VA:Cr1.1.1a: Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials.
VA:Cr2.1.1a: Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design.
VA:Cn11.1.Ka: Identify a purpose of an artwork.
Understandings
People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
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Community can be formed by working collaboratively.
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We have things in common even with those who seem different from us.
Studio Habits of Mind
Express: Making works that convey personal meaning and interpreting meaning in the works of others
Understand Art Worlds: Learning to collaborate and understanding that artists often work in groups
Envision: Imagining new artworks and steps to bring them to life
Formative Assessment
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Plan of the scene they want to portray in their window
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Material selection and an explanation as to why
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Ongoing group and individual discussion on community significance
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Visual Thinking Strategies on key artist examples
Summative Assessment
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2D representation of an interior space using their choice of material, with a window frame pasted on top
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Students have successfully worked together to create a cohesive layout of their pieces that they will then tie together
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Video or written Artist's Statement responding to given prompts