Grade 6 Curriculum


ART
Concept: Juxtaposed Shapes, Color Harmony
Skill Objectives: To chip, break glass following a pattern create a design
utilizing color value and balance of color
Experience: Mosaics-Background history of mosaics
Media Tools: Scrap glass. glass breakers, glue, grout, sponge,
squeegee, plexiglass

Concept: Aerial One Point Perspective
Skill Objectives: To create the illusion of volume on a 2D surface from overhead. Use white highlights on gray ground to enhance volume.
Experience: One point perspective drawing, creating a city from above
Media Tools: Gray paper, white pencil, erasers, rulers

Concept: Color Value/Split Image
Skill Objectives: To use color value to achieve visual allusion
Experience: Working with cray pas
Media Tools: Cray pas, magazines

Concept: Illustration /Observation
Skill Objectives: To illustrate a word utilizing graphic description on a combination
Experiences: Making a rebus
Media Tools: Markers colored pencils

Concept: Team Painting
Skill Objectives: To work in a group to create a large painting
Experience: Drawing, enlarging, painting
Media Tools: Craypas, pencils, rulers, yardstick

Concept: Grid Enlargement
Skill Objectives: To understand how to enlarge an image
Experience: 2D design, cartoon faces with expression
Media Tools: Pencil, black sharpie, flesh marker, flesh chalk

Concept: Calligraphy
Skill Objectives: To be able to letter in calligraphy utilizing Hunt Pens
Experience: Calligraphy
Media Tools: Ink, Hunts C0, C1, C2, C3

Concept: Book Cover Design/Reinforce Summer Reading
Skill Objectives: To design a book cover utilizing the art library as a resource
Experience: Graphic design plus various type fonts
Media Tools: Pencils, markers, rulers, colored pencils

Concept: Scratch board/Use of Negative Shapes for Drawing
Skill Objectives: To learn to use scratch board tool to incise lines into scratch board
Experience: Use of positive and negative design
Media Tools: Scratch board stylus and use of wooded stick, pencil