Creating Learning Teaching

This unit includes two Smartboard introductions, a small assignment to scaffold students to the larger assignment, and a mini unit plan to explain how each of the products have been used in my classroom. The first SmartNote File includes an introduction to Value as an element of art giving the definition of shades and tints. It also gets students started on the mini assignment which allows them to practice mixing shades and tints. The second SmartNote file gives a brief history of the Canadia

Students will create a double self-portrait, an image of themselves made with their one-of-a-kind fingerprint! I love to do this project after I have taught value scales and allow students a chance to study value in a unique way. It is also a great project for teaching to draw and paint using the grid technique. I have done this project with grade sixes, however I provided them with a photocopy of their school photo with a grid already printed. I also give them a larger sheet of paper printed