1. By: Kendra Volpe ARTE 329 Lesson Plan Presentation
Flower Pot Memorials
By: Kendra Volpe
ARTE 329
Lesson Plan Presentation

2. 5th Grade Lesson
Standard 5-6: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the political, social, economic, and environmental challenges faced by the United States during the period from the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Indicator:
5-6.3 Explain the impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the home-front response to terrorism are new for 5th grade students.

3. My Hero's

4. Maya Lin Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Maya Ying Lin is an American architectural designer and artist.
She attended Yale University.

5. Michael Ard
9/11 Memorial
Worked as New York Housing Authority architect before winning the competition to design the Memorial.
He earned a master’ degree in architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999.
He is a native of Israel

6. Vocabulary Hero: remarkably brave person
Primary colors: red, yellow and blue
Secondary colors: made from mixing two primary colors. The secondary colors are orange, purple/violet, and green.
Intermediate (or tertiary) colors: made from mixing a primary color with a secondary color. The intermediate colors are yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, yellow-green, green-blue.
Complimentary colors: appear opposite from one another on the color wheel. The complimentary colors are red and green, blue and orange, yellow and purple.
Analogous colors: colors that are next to each other on the color wheel (example: red, red-orange, orange)
Warm colors: yellow, orange, red; give the feeling of warmth
Cool colors: green, blue, purple; give the feeling of coolness
Tint: combination of white and a color to make the color lighter
Shade: adding black to a color to make it darker
Positive space: the space occupied by the object being looked at
Negative space: the space between an object, around an object, but not part of the actual object itself
Composition: the way an artist organizes and places the art elements
Hero: remarkably brave person
Memorial: something that is intended to remind people of a object or event.
Twin Towers: twin skyscrapers 110 stories high in New York City; built 1368 feet tall in 1970 to 1973; destroyed by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
Terrorism: somebody using violence to intimidate others, often for political or religious purposes.
Al Qaeda: Islamic fundamentalist based un Afghanistan that has led several terrorist incidents.
Osama bin Laden: established and led the terrorist group known as Al Qaeda.
Taliban: a strict Islamic group that ruled Afghanistan from
Homeland Security: a federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security; was put into place by George W. Bush .

7. Let’s make our memorials…

8. Flower Pot Memorial