Elementary Visual School Arts

Rigorous Curriculum Design

Unit Plan
Subject (s) Visual Art

Grade/Course 1 st Grade

Unit of Study Functional Art-Funky Chairs

Unit Type Topical Skills-based Thematic

Pacing 4 Sessions

Priority Standards or Learning Outcomes

Supporting Standards/Outcomes

1.CX.2 Understand the Interdisciplinary connections and life applications
of the Visual Arts.

Clarifying Priority Standards or Learning Outcomes
Supporting Standards/Outcomes
1.CX.2.1 Identify the role of the functional art in various communities
around the world.

1.CX.2.2 Identify connections between art and concepts from other
disciplines, such as math, science, language arts, social studies,
and other arts.

1.CX.2.3 Differentiate between sharing ideas and copying.

Name of Unit: Designing a Small Chair (Functional Art)

Lesson Plans Brief Description Pacing
Introduction to functional
art.

Creating a chair

Add color and patterns to
chair

Students will look at art

various types of furniture

for the future. Emphasis

on form. Explorations in

Art (Grade 2), pp. 174-

177

Using cardboard tubes

and flat cardboard,

students will construct

and design a chair.

Students will use tissue

paper collage to cover

1 Session

1 Session

2 Sessions