Data Portrait

Art Form: Visual Art

Subject: Math

Grade Level: 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade

Specialist: Trish Saccomano

Integrating Visual Art and Math

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Resources

SUPPLIES, EQUIPMENT & RESOURCES
  • Multimedia Paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue Sticks
  • Watercolors
  • Colored Pencils, Markers, or Crayons
  • Collage Papers
RESOURCE PICTURE BOOKS & VIDEOS
  • Observe, Collect, Draw!: A Visual Journal Diary by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
  • Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
  • Big Bang Data: Dear Data
  • Dear Data Project Video
  • Data Self Portraits
  • DATA Self Portrait
  • Data Self Portrait Rough Draft || Art Education || Mrs. Danza’s Art Room

Fine Art Standards

  • Strand: CONNECT (5.V.CO.): Students will relate artistic skills, ideas, and work with personal meaning and external context (Standards 5.V.CO.1–2).
  • Standard 5.V.CO.1: Apply formal and conceptual vocabularies of art and design to view surroundings in new ways through art-making.
  • Standard 5.V.CO.2: Identify how art is used to inform or change beliefs, values, or behaviors of an individual or society.

Integrated Standards

Standard 5.MP.4 Model with mathematics: Identify the mathematical elements of a situation and create a mathematical model that shows the relationships among them. Identify important quantities in a contextual situation, use mathematical models to show the relationships of those quantities, analyze the relationships, and draw conclusions. Models may be verbal, contextual, visual, symbolic, or physical.

Objectives

Drawing a portrait of yourself using data.