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🎨 5th Grade · ArtVA:Cr2.1Unit 3: Space & perspective

Foreground, middle, background

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🎯 Objective: Students create a landscape with three grounds.

Lesson outline

  1. Look at landscapes.
  2. Sketch.
  3. Paint.
  4. Exit: label the grounds.

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

VA:Cr2.1

National Core Arts Standards — Visual Arts (grade band 3–5)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Show foreground, middle ground and background
  • Use overlapping and size to show depth

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🖍️ Coloring pages🎨 Drawing ideas⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Space & perspective”

  1. Foreground, middle, background
  2. Overlapping and size
  3. One-point perspective

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