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Texture: smooth, rough and fuzzy

  • Grade 1
  • Arts Education
  • 1 min
  • British Columbia
  • BC1-AR-06

A finger touches an apple, a rock and a baby chick one at a time, and children learn that how something feels is its texture: smooth, rough or fuzzy. Each texture is then drawn with its own marks: a shine for smooth, little dots for rough and tiny lines for fuzzy. Three plain circles get the same marks and come to look smooth, rough and fuzzy, ending on the recap "The marks you draw can show texture."

Concept: Texture: how things feel and how a picture shows it

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

When you touch something, how does it feel?

How something feels is called its texture.

Transcript

What the lesson says

When you touch something, how does it feel?

How something feels is called its texture.

Let's touch three things, one at a time.

This apple feels smooth when you touch it.

To draw smooth, try even colour and a shine.

This rock feels rough and bumpy.

To draw rough, try lots of little dots.

This baby chick feels soft and fuzzy.

To draw fuzzy, try lots of tiny lines.

Here are three circles, all the same.

Now give each circle different marks.

Now they look smooth, rough and fuzzy!

The marks you draw can show texture.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 1

Arts Education, Visual arts: visual arts: elements of design: line, shape, texture, colour; principles of design: pattern, repetitionBC1-AR-06

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The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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