Subject/Grade: Arts Education 4
Lesson Title: Tissue Paper Poppies
Teacher: Miss Shayla Taylor
Stage 1: Identify Desired Results
Outcome(s)/Indicator(s):
CP4.8 Create artworks using a variety of visual art concepts (e.g., organic shapes), forms (e.g., kinetic sculpture, mural), and media (e.g., wood, wire, and found objects)
(m) Expand skills and abilities in using various visual art tools and materials
Key Understandings:
- I can use different materials to create visual art.
- I can understand the importance of the poppy and Remembrance Day.
- I can follow the instructions of the teacher.
Essential Questions:
- How can we use different materials in visual art?
- What are different forms of visual art?
- What is the importance of the poppy and Remembrance Day?
Prerequisite Learning:
- Know how to follow instructions
- Know how to cut and glue different materials
- Understanding of what Remembrance Day represents and why it is important
Instructional Strategies
- Group discussion
- Scaffolding
Stage 2: Determine Evidence of Assessing Learning
Formative:
- ability to represent poppy by following the instructions
- exit slip
Stage 3: Build Learning Plan
Materials/Resources:
- Tissue paper (red & black)
- Pipe cleaner
- Stick glue
- Jar (for bouquet)
- Scissors
Set:
- Share PowerPoint with the students
- Will bring an example of what we will be making.
- What type of flower is this? (Poppy)
- What is significant about the poppy? (We wear it on Remembrance Day)
- Why do we wear a poppy for Remembrance Day? (A soldier named John McCrae wrote a poem about him seeing a field of poppies in the middle of the war)
- Have a student help hand out tissue paper and pipe cleaner
Development:
Go through step-by-step instructions with the students, showing them how to do it as we go.
Step One:
- Draw 4 different sized circles.
- Cut out each circle.
- Draw a smaller circle on the black tissue paper and cut it out
- Clean up excess tissue paper (I will walk around with garbage can)
Step Two:
- Crumple the red and black pieces separately – creates flower petals and texture
- Lay them flat and stack red pieces on top of eachother from biggest to smallest
- Place the black piece at the very top
- Once they are placed where the students want them, poke a hole through the center with the pipe cleaner
Step Three:
- Do not pull the pipe cleaner all the way through, but then bend the end for the center of the poppy
- With the pipe cleaner, choose how long they want the stem and cut to that length
Closure:
- Exit Slip
- Clean up supplies and desks
- Collect poppies and put in a jar for a poppy bouquet
Possible Adaptations/Differentiation:
- Have PowerPoint of steps on the board for students to follow
- Go through the steps and create the poppy with the students
Management Strategies:
Circulate the classroom, supporting students as they need.
Safety Considerations:
- Follow covid protocol
- Be sure students are being careful when pushing the pipe cleaner through the tissue paper
- Careful using scissors
Stage 4: Reflection
This lesson went very well with the grade 4 class. Only change I would make is to be sure to fully explain how big of circles I want the students to make for the poppy. Lots were too small and had to remake the circles. Students were all very engaged and based off the exit slip, they enjoyed this activity.
