Elementary Visual School Arts

Rigorous Curriculum Design

Unit Plan
Subject (s) Visual Arts

Grade/Course Fourth Grade

Unit of Study Molas: A Cloth Tradition

Unit Type Topical X Skills-based X Thematic

Pacing 3-5 Sessions

Priority Standards or Learning Outcomes

Supporting Standards/Outcomes

4.V.3 Create art using a variety of tools, media, and processes, safely and
appropriately.

Clarifying Priority Standards or Learning Outcomes

Supporting Standards/Outcomes

4.V.3.1 Apply a variety of methods of manipulating a single tool, safely
and appropriately.
4.V.3.2 Compare characteristics of a variety of media.
4.V.3.3 Create art using the processes of drawing and collage.

Name of Unit: Molas: A Cloth Tradition

Lesson Plans Brief Description Pacing

Introduction
Pre-assessment

Read Explorations in Art,

Molas: A Cloth Tradition,

pp. 128-131

Read, Mola: Cuna Life

Stories and Art by

Maricel E. Presilla, Henry

Holt and Company, New

York, 1996.

1 Session