Overview	Lesson 1 The Story	Lesson 2 How Much Rice?	Lesson 3 India	Lesson 4 Sharing Info	Lesson 5 Folk Art	Lesson 6 Tell a Tale

Grade Level:  Grade 4

Subjects: 

• Art
• Technology
• Social Studies
  

Learner Outcomes: 

•  The student will recognize Indian Folk Art.
•  The student will use a digital camera to take a picture.
•  The student will load a crop a picture taken with a digital camera
•  Using a drawing program, students will create an Indian fold tale mask.

Duration of lesson:  2 forty-five minute class periods

Materials/Technology Tools:

•  LCD projector and screen
• Computer and printer
• Digital Cameras
  
• Drawing program such as Kid Pix or Microsoft Paint
• Power Point presentation on Indian Folk Art.
• Evaluation Rubric
  

Teacher Notes: 

• Teacher reference sites will be listed for background on Indian Folk Art

Procedures:

• Background
• Review a short history on Indian Art.
• Define folk art as art work produced by the average person, rather than by a professional artist.
• View the Power Point presentation showing samples of folk art from various regions of India.
• Create a folk artist mask.
• Discuss uses of masks in folk dances and story telling to represent deities and emotions.
• Review and discuss the mask slides in the power point presentation.
  
• Have students take each other's pictures with a digital camera.
• Load the pictures into the computer and crop them to get mostly head and shoulders in the shot.
• Import the picture into a drawing program such as Kid Pix or Microsoft Paint.
• Using the drawing tools, create a mask and headdress on the student's face.
• Save and print the pictures.

Evaluation:  Rubric

Modifications: 

• Make necessary adaptations according to student IEP's.
• If digital cameras are not available, have students bring pictures from home and scan them into the computer.

Enrichment Activities: 

• Mount the student pictures onto oak tag and tape them to a ruler.  Students take turns acting out the story "One Grain of Rice," holding  the mask picture in front of them as they speak their parts.

National Standards:

• Art Education
• Know that the visual arts have both a history and specific relationships to various cultures
• Explore and understand prospective content for works of art
• Understand there are various purposes for creating works of visual art
• Describe how people's experiences influence the development of specific artworks
• Social Studies
• Describe ways in which language, stories, folk tales, music, and artistic creations serve as expressions of culture and influence behavior of people living in a particular culture
• Demonstrate an understanding that people in different times and places view the world differently
• Technology
• Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase  productivity,  and promote creativity.
• Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology enhanced models, preparing publications, and producing other creative works.
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Pennsylvania Standards:

• Art Education
• 9.1.5E, 9.1.5J, 9.1.3K, 9.2.5G, 9.2.5J,
• Geography
• 7.3.6B
• Science and Technology
• 3.7.7C, 3.7.7D, 3.7.7E

References:

• Background Information on India
• Exotic Indian Art
• Decorative Primitive Folk Art
  
• Indian Art Circle
  
• Indian Art at Patachitra
  
• Orissa, Art, and Paintings
  
• Tanjore Paintings
  
• Kamat's Popourri
  
• Rubistar
• One Grain of Rice : A Mathematical Folktale by Demi.  Published by Scholastic Inc.

Authors
Sandy Grassel
Propel Charter School-Homestead

Maryann Rullo
Ringgold School District

Kelly Sherbondy
West Greene School District