Lifepacs Elective Art Unit 4 & Lesson Plans

Lifepacs Elective Art Unit 4

Lifepacs Elective Art Unit 4 is published by Alpha Omega Publishers and it is a unit in the 10-unit Elective Art package. Each unit can be purchased separately or as a set. Unit four is about perspective drawing and this article is about unit four.

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Art Lifepac 4: Perspective By Alpha Omega Publications

Materials needed for this class consist of the typical drawing class items, paper, pencils, erasers, a place to draw (drawing surface) and for perspective drawing, your student will need a long straight edge -- actually the length depends on the paper size that you plan to use. The size of the drawing surface should also factor into the decision. If using small paper such as printer paper or 9 x 12 inch paper, then a 12" ruler should be okay. Larger paper will need a longer ruler or a straightedge. And of course, you will need the book Lifepacs Elective Art Unit 4.

Will you need the teacher's book? If you do not plan to use any of the other 9 units from AOP Elective Art, then you probably will not need the teacher's book. You will have to grade the four tests without the benefit of the answer keys, but it's not that hard. If you plan to use several of the units from AOP Elective Art, then I recommend getting the teacher's book.

Related: Video: Lifepacs Elective Art Unit 4 - Quick Flip Through- an unreadable flip-through video of this book

Lesson Plans

The Class: this is an introductory class to linear perspective drawing for older students. 7th grade and up

The Lesson Plans: The lesson plans that I wrote below are minimal lesson plans meaning that I did not require additional resources; the lesson plans are written for the one workbook Lifepacs Elective Art Unit 4. You can add more classes and resources than listed if you think it is necessary or if you want to spend more time on the unit. I have assigned 17 class-time drawings. I consider every drawing assignment listed below necessary. Drawing is not a reading class, the student should have the benefit of actual class-time drawing. There are 25 classes in all.
The instructor needs to look at the students' drawings and offer feedback. Evaluating the drawings for this class is not difficult. The book has an example of just about every single drawing that the students will do. Compare the students' drawings to the examples - parallel lines that are supposed to be parallel to each other should be parallel; vertical lines should be vertical; lines that are supposed to intersect, should intersect at the right places.
Time Estimate -Set aside a fifty minutes to an hour for each class.

List Summary
• 25 classes - 6 of those are 3 study days and 3 test days
• 17 classes have drawing assignments
• Allow at least fifty minutes per class
• Activity 2.3 requires magazines and newspapers, so plan ahead if you want to do that activity

I. History
__ Introduction to class and materials- Go over glossary on page 44. Optional, have student copy words and definitions in his notebook
__ Read pages 2-6 and complete Self Test 1.
II. Understanding Perspective
__ Read the section Definitions starting at page 8 and then complete Activity 2.1. Optionally, draw several cubes, placing the starting box above and below the line, but not on or on top of the line, and at varying distances from the vanishing point.
__ Complete Activity 2.1b (more than one time)
__ Complete Activity 2.2 and 2.3 (2.3 requires periodicals)
__ Complete Activity 2.4
__ Read beginning with page 17 at Shapes, read though page 18. Follow the instructions on pages 17 - 18 and draw an Ellipse and a Cylinder.
__ Page 19, follow the instructions on pages 17 - 19 and draw a Cone.
__ Page 19, follow the instructions on pages 17 - 19 and draw a Pyramid.
Two Point Perspective-
__ Read pages 19 - 21, stop at activity 2.6 and complete Activity 2.5. Make sure that your drawing does not have any of the "common errors."
__ Read pages 21 - 22 and complete Activity 2.6
__ Read page 23 - 25 and make a drawing based on steps 1 - 6. Optionally, you may add the changes described on page 25 to your drawing.
__ Review, study, reread pages 8 - 25
__ Self Test 2
III. Equal Division Of Space
__ Read pages 27 - 28 and make a drawing based on Steps 1 through 4.
__ Read pages 28 - 29 and make a drawing based on Steps 1 - 6.
__ Read pages 30 - 31 and make a drawing based on Steps 1 - 3 and then, continue drawing the grid based on the remaining illustrated instructions.
__ Read pages 31 - 35 and draw a grid based on steps 1 - "complete"
__ Read all of page 36 and draw each one of the four illustrations on your paper
__ Shading, read pages 37 - 39, draw and shade the shapes after reading about each one
__ Read pages 40 - 41 and make the drawing shown in steps 1 - 4
__ Review, study, reread pages 27 - 41
__ Self Test 3
__ Study for unit test - covers entire unit
__ Unit Test

Files

A word documents of the lesson plans on this page-
DOCX - Lesson Plans for Lifepacs Elective Art Unit 4
DOC - Lesson Plans for Lifepacs Elective Art Unit 4
PDF - Lesson Plans for Lifepacs Elective Art Unit 4
When I taught a slightly more advanced perspective drawing class, I created this printable for use in class. Blue Grid.
For reference, the blue grid is used in most of the models.  

V Planner: TXT - Lesson Plans for Lifepacs Elective Art Unit 4 -- If copying and pasting plans into V Planner, be sure that pasting does not change the background color of the S Sheet. Click to see full sized image

Perspective books:
I have all of the books linked below and my opinion (not given) varies with each book.
(Links last checked August 2, 2011)

Elementary: Lessons in Perspective Drawing published by Rod and Staff
Links: Lessons in Perspective Drawing or Lessons in Perspective Drawing (links go to same book)

7th - High School: Lifepacs Elective Art Unit 4 (You do not need the teacher's book for this one course in my opinion)

Advanced: The Art of Teaching Art by D. Rockman. Heads-up- This is an art book, so of course there are nudes in it and a few deserve to be covered. This can be accomplished with small post-it notes. Covering the nudes does not hamper the quality of the book. You may preview the book at books.google.com and at amazon.com. This book is useful for teaching upper level art classes.
Also check your library and the internet for resources.

Perspective for those who want to draw comics - Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up

Wikipedia page on graphical perspective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_(graphical)