Elementary Visual School Arts

Name of Unit: Faces, Feelings, and Friends
Lesson Plans Brief Description Pacing

Looking at Portraits

Me and My Friends

Adding color

Critique/Self-assessment

Read Explorations in Art,

pp. 2-11, Unit 1

Students will use chalk

18 x 24 colored paper to

draw a self-portrait with

two friends. Close

attention is paid to

proportions.

Paint over chalk lines

with black tempera.

Students will use oil

pastels to add color to

their self-portrait with two

friends.

Students complete a

written self-assessment

1 Session

1 Session

2-3 Sessions

Concepts

(students need to

know)

Skills

(students need to be

able to do)

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Levels

Basic Facial Proportions

Portraiture - past vs.
present

Portraits can be found all
over the world, and have
been created throughout
history

Discuss artworks by

referring to lines, shapes,

patterns and textures

How to compare and

contrast (in a positive,

non-judgmental way,

differences in hair color,

shapes of eyebrows, and

sizes and shapes of eyes

and ears)

Remembering

Understanding

Applying

Analyzing

Creating