1. Visual Art Activity:
Hummingbird and Haida Art

2. Elements of Design Line: Shape and Form: Colour
curved, straight, jagged, horizontal, vertical…
Thick, thin, dotted, hatchmarks
Shape and Form:
Outline of an image produced by lines
Geometric / organic; positive;negative
Colour
Hue / value / intensity / temperature

3. Overall Expectations (Big Ideas)
D1. Creating and Presenting
… produce art works … to communicate feelings, ideas.. using elements, principles and techniques of visual arts
D3. Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts
… demonstrate an understanding of… art forms, styles and techniques…. and their sociocultural and historical contexts

4. Specific Expectations
D1.3 Use elements of design to communicate ideas, messages and understandings
D3.2 demonstrate awareness of ways in which arts reflect beliefs and traditions of a people

5. Reflect on the shapes/forms Identify “breaks” in the colours
Notice the thin / thick lines

8. Haida Hummingbird Examine pictures of hummingbirds in nature Discuss:
Lines and forms
Identify shapes

9. Identify shapes and forms
Determine where the colours will break
Add lines/shapes/forms typical of Haida art

11. Culminating Tasks Create the fire on mural paper Draw a hummingbird
Think about lines you use
Think about shapes you use
Relate them to lines/shapes in Haida art
Draw a hummingbird
Identify the shapes and forms
Determine colour breaks
Add Haida symbols
Use thick and thin lines
Cut out shapes and use as a template
Printing options: air-brush, solid, pastel…

12. Anchor Chart Look at Haida art samples
Forms
Colours
Lines
Look for forms in the hummingbird picture
Triangle / square / circle…..
Draw forms to create your bird
Determine colour breaks
Add Haida symbols
Adjust thickness / thinness of lines

13. Criterion-Based Assessment
D1.3 Use elements of design to communicate ideas, messages and understandings
D3.2 demonstrate awareness of ways in which arts reflect beliefs and traditions of a people
The student will:
Use form, line and colour to create a hummingbird in the Haida Gwaii style
Identify similarities in use of line, form and colour in Haida art
Identify the relationship of elements of art to Haida beliefs and traditions

14. Assessment as Learning
Have I….
Need to modify
I’m satisfied
Used different forms to draw my bird
Drawn my “colour breaks” and decided on colours
Drawn my forms in the Haida style
Used lines of different thickness

15. Assessment of Learning
Criteria 1 2 3 4
Uses different forms in drawing a bird
Uses “colour breaks” relating to the forms used
Work reflects the Haida style
Uses lines of different thickness

16. Extension Activity
Watch the animé representation of the story on Youtube:
Develop an animé presentation (this would be a lesson for another time!)