Learning+about+famous+artist

Lesson plan title __Activity overview:__ Students will learn about famous artists and become familiar with their works of art. Each group will be given a check list of artist names. The groups will program Bee-bot to travel to artists’ galleries/studios and collect one famous art work (reproduction) from each artist on their list. After all the art work is collected, the group will deliver the examples to the museum. __Art & Math concepts addressed:__ __Extensions/Adaptations:__ __Literature:__ Books about famous artists from Library
 * Learning about famous artists**
 * Team work
 * Direction: right, left, backward, and forward
 * Space & movement
 * Pattern
 * History and Culture: art history (about the artists, artwork, media and technique)
 * Compare and contrast artwork by different artists.
 * Recognize artist’s style
 * Identifies artist’s work
 * Identifies subject matter
 * Students can create a drawing by combining elements from each work collected during their travels.
 * Older students can collect information about each artist: name of the artists, what year they were born, and what kind of work did they create (painting, sculpture, printmaking, illustrations, photography, drawings, etc…), what kinds of subjects or objects were in the works of art…
 * Students can write a story about traveling to the galleries/studios and include information about the artist!

__Web Resources:__ Search these web sites for more lesson plans about artists! [|http://www.kinderart.com] [|www.crayola.com] http://www.usask.ca/education/coursework/skaalid/theory/cgdt/line.htm

__Materials needed:__
 * Bee-bot robots (5 stations)
 * Trailers for Bee-bot to carry collected pictures
 * Road for each station (5 stations)
 * museum/gallery boxes with examples artists’ works (at least 25 artists)
 * Paper
 * Crayons
 * Sticks with students’ names to organize groups

__Samples/Photos/handouts__:
 * Check list of Artist for each group (try to put different artist in each group)
 * Artists studied may include: Helen Cordero, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pablo Picasso, Thomas Hart Benton, Jacob Lawrence, Leonardo Devinci, Mary Cassatt, Alexander Calder, Jasper Johns, Réné Magritte, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Georgia O’Keeffe, Henri Rousseau, Andy Warhol, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, David Hockney, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Louise Moillon, Claude Monet, Louise Nevelson, Grandma Moses…