Elementary Visual School Arts

8

Unit Vocabulary Terms Enrichment/

Extension

Interdisciplinary

Connections

Priority

Standards

Concepts

Supporting

Standards

Concepts and

Other Unit-

Specific Terms

Mola
Appliqué
Stitchery
Tradition
Symmetry

Elements of Art:
Shape
Color
Line
Space

Principles of
Design:
Balance
Unity
Repetition

Textiles
Skills
Contour Lines
Color Schemes:
warm, cool,
analogous, and
complimentary
colors

Positive and

negative

Patterns

Industry/economy

Background

Identical and

stacked shapes

Display Molas

Advanced students

will create a mola

with cloth and use

sewing rather than

paper collage

techniques.

Field trip or Virtual

field trip to a textile

factory

Math:

Proportions and

symmetry.

Social Studies:

Traditions

Kuna culture

Locate Panama

on a world map

How textiles were

made throughout

history.

Textile History of

North Carolina

Language Arts:

Have students

select one of the

creatures shown

in the Molas on

pp. 128-129 of

Explorations in Art

and write about

that creature.