Kayta Brown

November 7th, 2014

Art - Week 1 Day 5

Subject: Art
Grade: Three/Four
Activity: Origami Poppies/Posters
Total Time of Lesson: 60 minutes
Goals/Key questions: Question: How can I get students to create art in honour of
Remembrance Day in order to emphasize the importance of it? As
well, can students create 3D art if they are guided through it step
by step?

Goal: Have students create Remembrance Day art that is
meaningful and appropriate. As well, to create 3D art with
guidance.
Objective (connected to PofS):
General Outcome:
Component 10 (iii): Media and Techniques: Students will use media and techniques,
with an emphasis on mixing media and perfecting techniques in
drawing, painting, print making, sculpture, fabric arts,
photography, and technographic arts
Specific Outcome:
D. Sculpture: Continue exploring paper sculpture as a means of making threedimensional forms.
Materials needed/pre-set-up required:
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Small red squares of paper (2 per child. Around 50 in total).

Origami guide for teacher
Origami guide handout for students
Black or green markers
Smartboard
Poster paper
Pencil Crayons
Other Remembrance Day books

Kayta Brown
November 7th, 2014

Activity/Time
Read a story
10 minutes
Origami Poppy
20 minutes

Posters
30 minutes

What are the teacher/students doing?

We will read A Poppy is to Remember by Heather Patterson and
Ron Lightburn to start the lesson. I will make sure that students
understand the seriousness and importance of the content of the
book.
I will hand out a red square of paper to everyone. When everyone
has a piece of paper, I will explain what we are going to make and
show them an example of the finished product. I will leave one
example in every section of desks. (There are 4 examples). Then we
will go over the steps (on other page) of how to make the origami
poppy. We will do each step one by one as a class. We will go over
each step as a class but I will also have the instructions displayed on
the Smartboard and several handouts for the kids to follow. We will
make two poppies each. When they are done their second poppy,
they are going to take a black or green marker and colour in the
middle of both poppies.
Students will look through the Remembrance Day books within the
classroom to get ideas to draw a poster for Remembrance Day.
Students will then create their posters and have the option to add
their poppies into the pictures to create a 3D poster.

Assessment: I will assess students on whether or not they are able to create 3D shapes
with guidance by how their poppies turn out.
I will assess whether or not students understand the importance of Remembrance Day
by how they respond to the story and to making their poppies. I will ask them at the
end of the lesson what they are going to do with their poppies.
Modification: We may only do one poppy if it is taking students a long time to finish
one. However, if they do it quickly, we will do 2.
Extra Activity: Students will work on their posters until the end of the day or can
choose a Remembrance Day book to read if they get done early.

origami