Unit Overview:
Within this unit, students are introduced to artistic representations of wind, trees, and flowers. Throughout the duration of the three lessons, students will use scientific methods and analyze featured artists' and their works. Following their research, students will create artistic representations of wind, trees, and flowers within their own environments through pantomime, rubbings, and drawings.
Lesson Overviews:
The movement of the wind causes trees to sway, grass stalks to bend, and flowers to quiver in its wake. In this lesson, students are introduced to the Beaufort scale for measuring wind force, and learn techniques for portraying the concept of moving wind in painting, pantomime and poetry.
Students learn about trees, comparing those depicted in Van Gogh's paintings to those found in nature. Leaf rubbings are created as a final activity.
Van Gogh’s sunflowers are used to introduce the parts of a flower, and to encourage students' own artistic impressions of flowers.
