UNIT SUMMARY
Unit Title: Traditional Japanese Garden Design
Unit Author: Alice Trageser, k-8 Hinesburg Elementary Art Teacher
Grade Level: 5 and 6
Unit Overview:
This unit provides opportunities for students to learn about the design
of a traditional Japanese garden and create their own miniature Japanese
garden. They will learn the important elements of Japanese aesthetics
and apply them to their own Japanese gardens.
Essential Question
How do Japanese gardens represent traditional Japanese aesthetics?
Culminating Activity
Students will create a miniature Japanese garden that incorporates
the elements of traditional Japanese aesthetics.
The garden will demonstrate simplicity, asymmetrical design and
incorporate traditional structures. The form,
function, and technical design of the garden container demonstrates
traditional Japanese aesthetics.
Vermont Standards
Vital Results:
4.3 Students demonstrate understanding of the cultural
expressions that are characteristic of particular
groups.
Fields of Knowledge:
5.28 Students use art forms to define and solve
artistic problems with insight, reason, and technical
proficiency. This is evident when students:
aa. communicate at a basic level in dance, music, theater, and visual
arts.
5.29 Students use the elements and principles of
two and three dimensional design in the visual
arts,
including line, color, shape, and texture, in creating, viewing, and critiquing.
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