Big Idea: Play

Julia V. Kropinova
Hannah M. Weston
Paola V. Bernal

About Lesson plan

Lesson Title: Assemblage Identity Sculpture

Big Idea: Free Choice Play
Grade 3rd
Lesson Overview: Our lesson involves play and
holistic integration. The students will preform a
VTS session of a photo, which will untimely help
them brainstorm ideas for their art making. They
will build a sculpture that incorporates humor, and
how their identities have been perceived by others
regarding sex, race, and religion.

Lesson Objectives
Literacy- The students will be able to identify and
describe verbally, the stereotypes and assumptions
others have made about them related to their culture,
race, etc.
Visual Art- The students will be able to visualize, and
build the assemblage sculpture using personal items and
other mixed media materials in order to celebrate their
culture, personality and race.
History- The students will be able to explore the prior
information they have learned about the history of their
culture in order to incorporate it into their final
assemblage sculpture work.

Summative Assessment strategy (of

studio investigation):
Literacy will be assessed
through discussion of the
article
Visual art will be
assessed through
students ability to
describe and create the
imagery for this project
History will be assessed
through students relating
their cultural history to
this project.

Lesson Procedures

Students Do- A student will read an

article as the home work assignment
that will relate to the understanding
of the big idea
Teacher Do -Teacher will perform
VTS in order to identify specific
meanings of Fred Wilsons art work.
Teacher Do- The teacher will present
an artist and his background
information. Students will be shown
a power point of an artist Fred
Wilson.
Teacher Do- Teacher will explain the
Think Sheet to the students.
Presenting Key Concepts for play,
Essential Questions and Objectives.
Teacher Do- The teacher will show
the students to build a base out of a
cardboard for their assemblage
project.

VTS

Inspiration artist
Fred Wilson -1954
American Artist
Received BFA 1976
Installation artist and a political activist
He brings together objects that are already made, manipulating
them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things
presented in the way he wants to see them.
He Creates multi-media installations, his elaborate Venus work
focused on representations of African in Venetian culture.

Fred Wilson
Wilson juxtaposed historically important
artifacts with each other to address the
injustice in history and the injustice of
not being properly exhibited.
Wilson transformed the Maryland
Historical Societys collection to
highlight the history of slavery in
America.
His exhibitions were successful in that it
made visitors more historically
conscious of the racism that is an
integral part of American history.

Vocabulary

Race
Symmetry
Value
Stereo-type
Character
Prejudice
Depth
Perspective

Juxtaposition
Culture
Race
Multi-media
Reinforcement
Injustice
Transformation

Key Concepts: What you know students to know.

Play is adventure
Humor is the ability to recognize the ludicrous
Paradox promotes fantasy
Transformation is the altering of a form that creates hybridization and puns
Play works with and against rules and structures
Contradictions create opposing meanings used is paradox and irony
Play is experiments with materials, techniques, and meanings

Essential Questions:
How does humor expressed through play contribute to a
meaningful discussion among peers?
In what ways does play strengthens the bond between students?
How does learner directed approach, help students create
meaningful art work?
How does appropriation of images contributes to the exploration
of stereo-types, puns, and irony?
What responsibilities come with freedom to create?
How can play encourage students to be comfortable with failure
and uncertainty?
How does exaggeration contributes to stereo-types in todays
society?

Objectives: Students Will

Prior to creating the project, explore the information you
have learned from the home work assignment and Fred
Wilson video in order to integrate the ideas into your
artwork.
Curate a small-scale assemblage sculpture from mixed
media materials available to you.
Identify and describe verbally, the stereo types and
humorous assumptions others have made about you
related to your culture, race, sex, etc.
Visualize the artwork and assemble a sculpture using
personal items and other mixed media materials in order
to celebrate your culture, personality and race.
Take a photo of your final art work.