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Symbols in Art: Things That Stand for Ideas

  • Grade 3
  • Arts Education
  • 56 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC3-AR-12

A pen draws a red heart that stands for love, and the video names this a symbol: something that stands for an idea. Four cards then show that a picture (a heart for love), a colour (green for nature), a movement (a dancer's wave for hello) and a sound (a fast drum beat, drawn as marks along a line in time, for feeling excited) can all be symbols, ending on the recap "Symbols stand for ideas".

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

How can art show an idea without words?

We draw a heart and colour it red.

Transcript

What the lesson says

How can art show an idea without words?

We draw a heart and colour it red.

A heart can stand for love.

Something that stands for an idea is called a symbol.

A picture can be a symbol.

A colour can be a symbol too.

Green can stand for nature.

A movement can be a symbol too.

In a dance, a wave of the arm can stand for hello.

A sound can be a symbol too.

Listen to this fast drum beat.

A fast beat can stand for feeling excited.

Pictures, colours, movements and sounds can all be symbols for ideas.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 3

Arts Education, Arts in general: symbolism as ways of creating and representing meaningBC3-AR-12

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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