Canadian art is a door to learning about a wide range of subjects.

The Art Canada Institute teacher resource guides presented here offer students the opportunity to study a multitude of subjects—from environmental awareness to activism, social justice to gender studies, politics to computer science (to name a few)—through the art and artists who have defined this country’s visual culture.

Following our provinces’ education curricula, the teacher resource guides provide multidisciplinary learning activities that reveal how Canadian art powerfully reflects our world so we can better understand it.

Activities for K-12!

Lesson Rationale:
This lesson is important because it gets the students to explore different mediums of art. It also gets them to learn about artists that are part of Saskatchewan and what types of images they make. The students get to explore working outdoors while drawing and creating a 2D image of an object that they may have never payed much attention too until this assignment. They also get to go deeper with this, by taking a photo of a scene they come across that captures their attention, not on school property. This assignment allows for the students to be able to feel comfortable sharing their images with the rest of their peers, without feeling like they may be judged. They get to be in a safe sharing environment. This assignment also give students the confidence to believe in themselves that they can create an object or scene that they see in real-life. It gives them the confidence to see that they too can be like Saskatchewan artists and can create images that incorporate Saskatchewan.

This 1 1/2 hour session will give students the opportunity to participate in a live broadcast with professional artist Heather Clines. Students will learn how artists come up with ideas to create art work and some of the basic ways Cline uses collage in her own work. Students will understand the use of collage as a form of visual art and use the method to create an art work inspired by a Freaky Friday in Saskatchewan.

This is a one-page choice board with various visual arts projects (including links to full instructions), suitable for Grade 4 students in Saskatchewan.