Spring Fair Poster Project
EALRs and GLEs
A lesson plan integrating Social Studies and Visual Arts Grade Level
Expectation of the State Essential Academic Learning Standards
Social Studies Second Grade EALRs and GLEs
EALR 1- CIVICS: The student understands and applies knowledge of government, law, politics, and the nation’s
fundamental documents to make decisions about local, national and international issues and to demonstrate
thoughtful, participatory citizenship.
1.1.2 Understands the key ideal of public or common good within the context of the community.
Question: How is The Puyallup Fair an example of “common good” for the community?
EALR 2 – ECONOMICS: The student understands and applies knowledge of economics concepts and systems
to analyze decision making and the interactions between individuals, households, businesses, governments
and societies.
2.2.1 Understands the elements of a community’s economic system, including producers, distributors, and
consumers of goods and services.
Question: What goods and services are provided by The Fair each year? What needs and wants are
satisfied by the Fair?
EALR 3 - GEOGRAPHY: The student uses a spatial perspective to make reasoned decisions by applying the
concepts of location, region, and movement and demonstrating knowledge of how geographic features and
human cultures impact environment.
3.1.1 Understands and uses maps to identify specific landmarks.
3.1.2 Describes physical characteristics, cultural characteristics, and location of places, and regions.
3.2.1 Understands human interaction with the environment, understands that the way families live is shaped
by the environment.
Question: Locate on the map of the Fair where various streets and landmarks are.
Question: How have families lived in the Puyallup valley: farming, produce, what we eat, what is
grown locally?
Question: How does The Fair display, show how we live?
3.2.2 Understands the cultural universals of place, time, family life, economics, communication, arts,
recreation, food, clothing, shelter, transportation, government and education.
Question: What of the cultural universals are evident at the Fair? (family life, specific place and time
every year, arts, recreation, food, transportation, education, see below)
EALR 4 - HISTORY: The student understands and applies knowledge of historical thinking, chronology, eras,
turning points, major ideas, individuals and themes in local, Washington state . . . and how history shapes
present and future.
4.2.2 Understands how contributions by various cultural groups have shaped the history of the community and
world.
EALR 5 - RESEARCH: The student understands and applies reasoning skills to conduct research
5.2.2 Uses texts and visuals to help identify the main ideas and key details to study family life.
Visual Arts Second Grade EALRs AND GLEs
EALR 1 - Visual Arts: The student understands and applies arts knowledge and skills in dance, music, theatre,
and visual arts.
1.1 Understands and applies visual arts concepts and vocabulary.
Creates a drawing from observation by using photos of real objects as a reference.
1.1.2 Understands, applies, and creates the elements of visual arts when producing a work of art.
Elements of Visual Arts: Line, Shape and Form, Color, Value, Texture, Space
Describes, uses, and produces shapes and forms in a variety of media, styles, and artworks to
demonstrate:
o Geometric shapes and forms
o Organic shapes and forms
Examples: What are shapes of things at the Fair – give examples and ask what shape that it is –
Pumpkin – organic and circle; a building – geometric and rectangles and triangles; sheep - head is
circle, legs are kind of rectangles, ears are kind of triangles. Different rides – what shapes?
1.1.4 Understands, applies, and creates the elements of visual arts when producing a work of art.
Elements of Visual Arts: Line, Shape, Form, Color, Value, Texture, Space
Examines, uses, and produces a variety of textures in various environments,
Examples: Locates and describes a variety of actual textures in his/her environment.
Generates and uses a variety of implied textures in a crayon drawing of buildings or other objects
(including rough, smooth, bumpy, fuzzy, furry, soft, hard, etc.) to describe how things feel.
1.1.5 Understands, applies, and creates the elements of visual arts when producing a work of art.
Elements of Visual Arts: Line, Shape, Form, Color, Value, Texture, Space
Describes and uses the element of space and spatial devices in various pieces of art work
o Over/under, above/below, beside
o Behind/in front
o Foreground, middle ground, background
o Overlap
o Size
o Placement on a page
Examples: Uses a projected image to identify the locations (above, below, beside, etc.) of objects on a
picture plane in the image. Creates a composition and uses spatial devices, such as foreground, middle
ground, background, overlap, and size to create the illusion of depth. Creates a cut-paper collage of a
location and enhances the collage with overdrawing.
1.1.6 Understands, applies, and creates the elements of visual arts when producing a work of art.
Elements of Visual Arts: Line, Shape, Form, Color, Value, Texture, Space
Identifies, produces, and uses—in various artworks and working with a variety of media—the
following:
o Primary colors (yellow, red, blue).
o Secondary colors (orange, green, purple/violet); created by mixing primary colors (yellow +
red = orange).
o Warm colors (yellow, orange, red) and cool colors (blue, green, violet).
Examples: Uses a warm and cool color scheme to paint a composition
EALR 2 - Visual Arts: The student uses the artistic processes of creating, performing/presenting, and
responding to demonstrate thinking skills in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts.
2.1
Applies a creative process to visual arts. (Identifies, explores, gathers, interprets, uses, implements,
reflects, refines, and presents) Demonstrates a creative process:
o Explores the elements of visual arts to create works of art.
o Uses information to create works of visual arts.
o Uses ideas, skills, choices of elements, and techniques to create works of art.