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Creative Arts · Grade 6

Pattern, Perspective and Spatial Design

Learners build repeat patterns from a motif using slides, flips and turns, and identify regular, alternating, progressive and flowing rhythm. They create the illusion of depth with overlap, size, placement, detail and atmospheric perspective, then construct one-point and two-point linear perspective with a horizon line and vanishing points. Finally they plan a space, from a scaled floor plan to a perspective view with foreground, middle ground and background.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 125 minutes
  • Pattern, perspective and space check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, plot points, highlight a text, match pairs and type a number
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What learners will discover

  • Build patterns from a motif using translation, reflection and rotation, and identify regular, alternating, progressive and flowing rhythm.
  • Create the illusion of depth with overlap, relative size, vertical placement, detail and atmospheric perspective.
  • Construct one-point and two-point perspective using a horizon line at eye level, vanishing points and converging edges.
  • Plan a spatial design using a scaled floor plan, a chosen viewpoint and foreground, middle ground and background.

Lessons

  1. Pattern and rhythm 6 steps3 practiceabout 30 min
  2. Depth cues and atmospheric perspective 6 steps3 practiceabout 30 min
  3. Linear perspective 6 steps4 practiceabout 34 min
  4. Planning a space 6 steps3 practiceabout 31 min
  5. Pattern, perspective and space check 10 questions at the end

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