Water Cycle Landscapes
Learn about the water cycle, how it functions, as well as foreground, middle ground and background, and the plants and landforms in the desert landscape.
Resources
- Pencils
- Glue sticks
- Landscapes or Landscape Paintings
- Lined Paper
- Long Strips of white paper (6×24)
- Colored Chalk
- Water Dance by Thomas Locker
Fine Art Standards
- ELEMENTS: A part or aspect of something abstract, especially one that is essential or characteristic.
- TEXTURE: The feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or a substance.
- DIRECTIONAL LIGHT: Light that travels in a specific direction.
Integrated Standards
- SCIENCE OBJECTIVES: Students will understand that water changes state as it moves through the water cycle.
- Students will be able to describe the water cycle.
- LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES: The student will refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. The student will determine a theme of a story, drama or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
Objectives
The objectives of this lesson is to help students understand how the water cycle functions in different environments, and how to illustrate aerial perspective by folding their paper into thirds and tearing it.