TOTEM POLES ~ Grade 2
Objectives: Students will be able to: I) create a
section of a totem pole in the style of the Northwest Indians. 2) understand the cultural significance of
Totem Poles. 3) use lines, shapes, and colors to fill in faces.
Materials: 6” x I2" newsprint paper to sketch ,
6" x 12" aluminum foil for the final copy, pencils, permanent markers, pictures of totems for reference
Procedure:
1. Discuss Totem Poles with the class.
2. Fold 6 x 9,' paper in half (hamburger style)
and draw 2 totem faces, one on top of the other with no outside boundaries.
3. Teacher staples top of paper to foil. Student
traces design onto foil. Do not remove
paper.
4. Student turns project so that the raised lines
are on top and paper is on the bottom out of sight.
5. Student then colors project, leaving the
raised lines silver.
VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
LIST OF STANDARDS
1.1
All students will acquire knowledge and skills that increase aesthetic
awareness in dance, music, theater, and visual arts.
1.2
All students will refine perceptual, intellectual, physical, and technical
skills through creating dance, music, theater, and or visual arts.
1.3
All students will utilize arts elements and arts media to produce
artistic products and performances.
1.4
All students will demonstrate knowledge of the process of critique.
1.5 All students will identify
the various historical, social, and cultural influences and traditions which
have generated artistic accomplishments throughout the ages and which continue
to shape contemporary arts.
1.6
All students will develop design skills for planning the form and
flinction of space, structures, objects, sound, and events.