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3rd Grade Art Curriculum: Year Elementary Art Class
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Get everything you need to teach every single day for a school year with this 3rd grade art curriculum. This elementary art curriculum is designed for upper elementary but can be adapted for younger or older art students.
Get everything you need to teach a weekly elementary art class for an entire school year with this 3rd grade art curriculum. Designed with upper elementary art in mind, or use with 3rd grade art or adapt for younger or older students.
With this 3rd grade art curriculum, you get 16 art lessons, 21 activities, 13 take-home, in-depth art projects, fast-finisher activities, and more.
Teach students about the elements of art, stop motion animation, clay, turning shapes to forms, flip books, metal tooling, radial symmetry, weaving, painting, drawing techniques, art history, and more.
This elementary art curriculum introduces 3rd grade art, or younger and older students, to line, shape, form, space, texture, color, and value through a range of projects and activities. In addition to an elements of art focus, this elementary art curriculum also includes quick easy projects to start the year, celebrate fall, winter, spring, summer, and the last 2 weeks of school to help wrap up the school year.
Ideal for third grade art, adapt for 2nd, 4th, or 5th grade art classes. Students complete quick activities, look at examples, and create beautiful works of art
All in all this 3rd grade art curriculum pack includes:
This is enough to use in a class that meets once a week for 30-60 minutes for 18 weeks. Get everything you need to each even if you have zero experience with art. This is great as a homeschool art curriculum or traditional in school art curriculum.
STOP MOTION ANIMATION PROJECT:
- Lesson plan (big idea, objectives, US national standards, instructions, and more, 10 pages)
- Teacher notes (2 page)
- Quick reference for creating and editing stop motion movies (3 pages)
- Storyboard and brainstorming guide (2 pages)
- 3 PowerPoint presentations (32 slides)
- Project guide on using the free app, Stop Motion Studio (4 pages)
- Title and end frame art activity (2 pages)
- Willis O'Brien artist to know fast finisher activity (3 pages)
- Flip book activity (2 pages)
- Art project checklist (1 page)
- Rubric (for older students) 1 page
METAL TOOLING SAMPLER ART LESSON:
- Lesson plan (big idea, objectives, US national standards, instructions, and more, 8 pages)
- Teacher notes (2 pages)
- 4 PowerPoint presentations (50 slides)
- Demo video (15 minutes)
- Brainstorm activity (2 pages)
- Implied texture reference (2 pages)
- Pattern reference (2 pages)
- Project guide (2 pages)
- Statue of Liberty fast finisher activity (3 pages)
- Student checklist (1 page)
- Art project checklist (1 page)
- Art project rubric (1 page)
RADIAL SYMMETRY INITIALS ART PROJECT:
- A thorough lesson plan (big idea, I can, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step by step implementation instructions).
- 2 PowerPoints and PDF presentations to start each day
- Demo video to show students the steps (accessed via YouTube or Google Drive)
- Project how to
- Block letter how to
- 4 versions of a mandala design early finisher
- Project checklist
- Project examples
CLAY FLOWERPOT SCULPTURE LESSON:
- Lesson plan (including essential questions, objectives, vocabulary, cross-curricular and national standards, step-by-step instructions, and so much more)
- Teacher notes (with tips on setup and implementation)
- Cube Template
- Step-by-step art project handout
- Step-by-step clay facial features handout
- 3 PowerPoints to introduce steps and display goals for the day
- Crazy lines face early finisher
- Project checklist
- Critique reflection and activity
SHAPE TO FORM CRAZY VASE DRAWING:
- A thorough lesson plan (big idea, goals, essential questions, objectives, supply list, resource links, step by step implementation instructions)
- Assignment sheet for students to take home and read through with parents
- 2D Shapes to 3D Forms handout
- How to create a 3D Vase handout
- Checklist for the teacher to check once class resumes
- Project demo video
- Lesson plan (big idea, objectives, US national standards, instructions, and more, 4 pages)
- Teacher notes (1 page)
- PowerPoint presentation (14 slides)
- Project guide and brainstorm activity (2 pages)
- Demo video (7 minutes)
- Art project checklist (1 page)
THAUMATROPE ONE-DAY ART PROJECT:
- Lesson plan (big idea, objectives, US national standards, instructions, and more, 5 pages)
- Teacher notes (1 page)
- PowerPoint presentation (17 slides)
- Project guide and brainstorm activity (2 pages)
- Demo video (7 minutes)
- Art project checklist (1 page)
- Teacher notes on ways to implement this guide
- How to summer directed drawing guide
- Sub activity and checklist
Engage elementary art students every week for 36 weeks with this 3rd grade art, elementary art curriculum. Looking for a kindergarten semester art curriculum? Check out my kindergarten fall art pack here. Check out my 3-5 fall semester pack here.
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