Southfield Public Schools: Lesson Planning Template

Teachers Name: Sarah Koch (Liza Pasini) - Elementary Visual Art

Grade: 5th

Unit/Lesson Title: Collage Jazz Musicians

Day/Date(s): Week of 10/3, 10/10, 10/17 & 10/24; 4 class

sessions

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Alignment to State of MI Visual Art GLCE’s

ART.VA.I.5.1, ART.VA.I.5.2,

Create

Evaluate

Analyze

Apply

Understand

Remember

ART.VA.II.5.1, ART.VA.II.5.4

KUD

Knowledge: Jazz music and the visual arts are related to one another.

Understand that: The visual art of collage reflects the unique style of Jazz music and musicians.

Do: Students will create a collage of Jazz musicians (men and women) playing Jazz musical instruments of their

choosing. Emphasis will be placed on Jazz musician clothing and instruments. Students will draw, cut out, and glue

the clothing, body, and instruments shapes from a variety of construction paper and patterned paper onto another

sheet of construction paper. Students will also draw music notes and Jazz instruments on their backgrounds in oil

pastel after they collage their Jazz musician and instrument. The instruments, clothing, and body will be cut out in

different sizes, shapes, and colors. This will emphasize contrast, color, scale, and layering in their collage projects.

Connection to Jazz music: Students will discuss how collage reflects the style of Jazz music including the style of dress

of Jazz musicians. How are collage and Jazz music similar to one another? Students will learn about the style of Jazz

musician attire, Jazz music, and Jazz instruments through their collage art projects. Connection to Literature:

Students will watch a reading/song video of the illustrated book “This Jazz Man”, to connect literature (about Jazz

music) with the collage art project (cross-curricular). Different students will read stanzas from the passage titled

“What to Wear (The Musicians)” from the illustrated book “Jazz Day”. They will learn about what Jazz musicians would

wear when they played Jazz music and will see illustrations of what Jazz musician clothing looked like.

Assessment

How are you collecting evidence of student understanding?

How are you using that information to inform your instruction?

Summative & Formative Assessments, Performance Task(s) & Other Evidence i.e. Pre-assessments, Unit

Tests, Quizzes, Essays, Exit Cards, etc.

Pre-assessment/Introduction: As a lesson introduction/pre-assessment, students will be told the art lesson relates to a

type of music and then be shown a PowerPoint presentation of Jazz musicians/bands on screen and asked: Who are

these people in the pictures? What instruments are they playing? What kind of music do you think they are playing?

What is the music called? What are they wearing? Students will answer questions as part of a class discussion to

assess their prior knowledge and understanding about Jazz. The rest of the PowerPoint Presentation will be about the

definition of Jazz music. Students will then watch the video reading of the book “This Jazz Man” to learn about Jazz

musicians, their instruments, and what they would wear as an introduction. I will mention that students pay attention

to the instruments and clothing the musicians have in the illustrations. We will discuss what they observed after the

video. Lastly, various students will read stanzas from the passage “What They Wear (The Musicians” from the book

“This Jazz Day”. They will learn in detail about what Jazz musicians w ear and see illustrations of the clothes Jazz

musicians would wear also. I will tell students we are creating collages of Jazz musicians and playing a Jazz

instrument. I will demonstrate the steps for building a Jazz musician by breaking it down into categories (clothes, body

parts, Jazz instrument, final details) over several class periods. I will display finished Jazz musician collage examples

on the board.

Summative Assessment: At the end of the lesson, students will be asked questions in an informal class discussion such

as: How does collage relate to Jazz music? What are similarities between collage and Jazz music? What Jazz

instruments did you use in your collage? What are some instruments used in Jazz music? What types of clothing do

Jazz musicians wear? What was our art lesson about? What did you learn? My assessment will take place on our last

day of working on our project at the end of class.

Instructional Learning Plan

Southfield Public Schools – Lesson Plan Template 2011

Southfield Public Schools: Lesson Planning Template - 2011

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