Creative expression is an important fine arts' component that allows for the creation of individual artwork through problem solving. In addition, creative expression promotes lifelong appreciation for the visual arts as knowledge and artistic skills are gained. Creating a sequence moving cartoon illustrations allows students to experience the three goals of creative expression.
Students create their own unique moving cartoon based on personal experience or response.
In doing so they acquire knowledge of the visual arts' technical process of animation, consequently promoting a lifelong appreciation of motion and change within the visual arts. A combination of direct instruction and guided discovery will be used throughout the lesson. However, for closure students will engage in the group process of partner sharing. Students should relate their responses to the previously shown cartoon. Students will need to use their prior and related knowledge to make the guided discovery connection of how they will make their own cartoon, for the next question .