3rd Grade Drawing Lesson Plan (Art)

Topic: Drawing Lessons on Friendship

Topic: Drawing Lessons on Friendship

Objectives & Outcomes

• Students will understand the concept of friendship and the importance of keeping friends.

Materials

• Pencils
• Paper
• Friendship images (e.g. pictures of people hugging, holding hands, etc.)

Warm-up

• Ask students to share examples of friendship they have observed (e.g. "My best friend and I always play together at recess").
• Next, ask students to think of a time when they lost a friend and how they felt.
• Lead a discussion on how friends can help us feel happy and less lonely when we are sad or have problems.

Direct Instruction

• Introduce the concept of drawing to communicate feelings or ideas.
• Show students some examples of how to use drawings to express feelings or ideas (e.g. show them how to use facial expressions and body language to show emotions).
• Explain that friendship drawings can be used to show how two people feel about each other or how they interact.
• Have students work in pairs to create a drawing showing how they feel about their friend or how they interact with their friend.

Guided Practice

• Show students how to use a graphic organizer to organize their drawing and write a short sentence about how they feel about their friend or how they interact with their friend.
• Have students work in pairs to use a graphic organizer to organize their drawing and write a short sentence about how they feel about their friend or how they interact with their friend.
• Encourage students to be creative and use the skills they learned to express their feelings or ideas in their drawings.

Independent Practice

• Have students choose a friend to draw and write a short sentence about how they feel about their friend or how they interact with their friend.
• Have students use a graphic organizer to organize their drawing and write a short sentence about how they feel about their friend or how they interact with their friend.
• Encourage students to be creative and use the skills they learned to express their feelings or ideas in their drawings.

Closure

• Have students share their drawings and sentences with the class.
• Ask students to reflect on the activity and discuss what they learned about expressing their feelings or ideas in a drawing.

Assessment

• Collect the drawings and sentences and use them to assess students' understanding of the concept of closure and their ability to express their feelings or ideas in a drawing.