Kaleidoscope Grade 8
Lesson submitted by: Linda Devlin
Lacey Middle School
Forked River, NJ
Objective: The students will be able
to create a kaleidoscope drawing, showing the basic art rules (shading,
highlighting, coloring, etc.) The focus of this project is to increase design &
drawing skills, improve hand eye coordination and to develop an understanding
of mirror images.
1.1 This
lesson will increase the student's aesthetic awareness
1.2 This will help students refine perceptual,
physical & technical skills through creating...
1.3 They will utilize arts elements & arts media to produce
artistic products.
1.4 Students will demonstrate knowledge of the process of
critique. This will be done at the end of the project when we will critique the
works as a class.
1.5 They will be able to identify the various historical,
social & cultural influences and traditions, which generated artistic
accomplishments through the ages.
1.6 They will develop design skills for planning the form &
function of space structures, objects, sound and events.
Procedure: Discuss what a kaleidoscope
is and how we view them. Explain mirror images.
Methods: Have the students begin
by looking for ideas in magazines and books. They will then trace a wedge shape
l/6th of a circle onto tracing paper, two times. They then trace their designs
onto the tracing paper wedge. The design must go over both sides of the wedge
and fill most of it. The more busy the
design the better. The design is then flipped over and traced on the second
wedge (mirror image). A square sheet of
white paper with a circle drawn on it is then given to the student. These two
designs will then go next to each other alternating~ as you go around the circle.
Transfer designs using graphite paper. Alternate the images so that they mirror
each other. The design is then colored with colored pencils and outlined with
thin markers.
Materials: Oak tag wedges,
4"x8" tracing paper (2), 16"x16" white paper, books and
magazines (ideas), colored pencils and markers.