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Visual Arts

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Education in the arts is essential to students’ intellectual, social, physical, and emotional growth and well-being. Experiences in the arts – in dance, drama, music, and visual arts – play a valuable role in helping students to achieve their potential as learners and to participate fully in their community and in society as a whole. The arts provide a natural vehicle through which students can explore and express themselves and through which they can discover and interpret the world around them. Participation in the arts contributes in important ways to students’ lives and learning – it involves intense engagement, development of motivation and confidence, and the use of creative and dynamic ways of thinking and knowing. It is well documented that the intellectual and emotional development of children is enhanced through study of the arts. Through the study of dance, drama, music, and visual arts, students develop the ability to think creatively and critically. The arts nourish and stimulate the imagination, and provide students with an expanded range of tools, techniques, and skills to help them gain insights into the world around them and to represent their understandings in various ways. Study of the arts also provides opportunities for differentiation of both instruction and learning environments.

(Ontario Arts Curriculum, 2009, pg. 3)

Principles and Elements of Design


Units

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Identity and Portraiture
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Day Plan cover assignment

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Animals and Clay Sculpture
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Clay

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Classroom Rules Art

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Pop Art Portraiture and Culture Jamming Media
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Watercolour

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Human and Animal Rights
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Aboriginal Art
and the Environment
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Lino Block

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Our Environment: The Natural and Built World
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Superheroes and Graphic Novels: The Human Figure in Action
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T-Shirt Design

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Student Gallery

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Resources

Youtube instructional videos, artwork reflection sheets and information on the principles and elements of design
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