Elementary Visual School Arts

Students will fill out a KWL Chart (What do you KNOW? What Do You WANT to
know? What Did You LEARN?) which will serve as a pre- assessment indicating
what they expect to learn.

Performance based checklist to make sure each step is completed successfully.

Review for class, students may do self-assessment along with review

Reflecting on essential questions

Scoring Guides and Answer Keys

N/A

Engaging Learning Experiences

Learning Activities Using Text or Program Authentic Performance Tasks

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.

Demonstration

Pre-assessment of collage vocabulary

Prep drawings of animals

Paper Molas

KWL Charts

Written self-assessments/rubrics

Research-Based Effective Teaching

Strategies

21 st Century Learning Skills

Check all that apply to the unit:

X Identifying Similarities and

Differences

Summarizing and Note Taking

X Reinforcing Effort, Providing

Recognition

Homework and Practice

Nonlinguistic Representations

Cooperative Learning

Check all that apply to the unit:

Teamwork and Collaboration

Initiative and Leadership

X Curiosity and Imagination

X Innovation and Creativity

X Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

X Flexibility and Adaptability

Effective Oral and Written

Communication