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Pattern and Contrast

  • Grade 2
  • Arts Education
  • 1 min 2 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC2-AR-07

Shapes, colours and lines are drawn one at a time until they repeat (circle, triangle; red, yellow; up, down), and viewers guess what comes next to discover that things that repeat make a pattern. Then a big circle beside a small one and a light square beside a dark one show that very different things side by side make contrast, and the video ends with the patterns and the contrasts shown together.

Concept: Pattern, repetition and contrast in art

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

What is a pattern? Let's draw one and find out!

First draw a circle, then a triangle.

Transcript

What the lesson says

What is a pattern? Let's draw one and find out!

First draw a circle, then a triangle.

Now draw them again, just the same.

Circle, triangle, circle, triangle. What comes next?

A circle! The shapes repeat, so it's a pattern.

Colours can repeat too: red, yellow, red, yellow.

Lines can repeat too: up, down, up, down.

Shapes, colours or lines that repeat make patterns.

Now let's put very different things side by side.

A big circle beside a small circle.

A light square beside a dark square.

Very different things side by side make contrast.

Repeat things to make a pattern. Use very different things for contrast.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 2

Arts Education, Visual arts: visual arts: elements of design: line, shape, texture, colour, form (visual arts); principles of design: pattern, repetition, rhythm (visual arts), contrastBC2-AR-07

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The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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