Launch
Launch
Students will explore how visual art, music, movement, and media can create different emotional experiences. They will name feelings, connect artistic choices to audience reactions, and create a quick prototype that uses color, shape, or texture to communicate an emotion.
Days 1 - 3
Listen & Notice
Listen & Notice
Students will gather audience evidence about how colors, shapes, textures, sounds, and movements communicate happy, sad, calm, or excited feelings. Through guided observations, material exploration, peer interviews, and feedback, they will create and revise a four-feeling empathy chart that responds to both essential questions.
Days 4 - 9
Frame the Feeling
Frame the Feeling
Students will sort evidence from earlier observations and interviews, identify patterns in how artistic choices affect an audience, and connect an emotion to a personal story and artistic purpose. They will use peer and teacher feedback to revise a picture-supported How Might We question and design brief that guides their next phase of artmaking.
Days 10 - 15
Make & Improve
Make & Improve
Students will generate varied emotion-art concepts, build a low-fidelity mixed-media prototype, test it with peers, and make documented revisions that clarify a happy, sad, calm, or excited feeling.
Days 16 - 21
Refine & Share
Refine & Share
Students will refine personal emotion artworks, test them with an outside audience member, make evidence-based adjustments, record artist reflections, and prepare team gallery stories for the showcase.
Days 22 - 27
Showcase
Showcase
Students will prepare, present, and reflect on a Feelings Through Art showcase for families or another class. They will explain how colors, shapes, textures, sounds, and movements express emotions, collect audience reactions, and use drawings and spoken responses to answer the project’s essential questions.
Days 28 - 30
Launch
Days 1–3
Day 1
🎨 Emotion Gallery Adventure
Launch
45m
Day 2
🔺 Feeling Choices Laboratory
Knowledge/Skill Building
40m
Day 3
🖍️ Emotion Art Test Cards
Project Work
45m
Listen & Notice
Days 4–9
Day 4
🎨 Color and Shape Feeling Detectives
Knowledge/Skill Building
38m
Day 5
🖐️ Texture Mood Material Lab
Knowledge/Skill Building
42m
Day 6
🎤 Peer Feeling Interview Cards
Deliverable
45m
Day 7
🎵 Sound and Movement Emotion Match
Knowledge/Skill Building
40m
Day 8
🧩 Four-Feeling Empathy Chart
Project Work
45m
Day 9
👀 Emotion Evidence Listening Checkpoint
Assessment
45m
Frame the Feeling
Days 10–15
Day 10
🧩 Emotion Evidence Clusters
Knowledge/Skill Building
45m
Day 11
🎯 Artwork Purpose Picture Sort
Knowledge/Skill Building
40m
Day 12
🔎 Audience Reaction Pattern Hunt
Research
45m
Day 13
🖼️ Personal Story Purpose Map
Project Work
45m
Day 14
💬 Feeling Design Brief Workshop
Deliverable
45m
Day 15
✅ Emotion Plan Readiness Check
Assessment
45m
Make & Improve
Days 16–21
Day 16
🎨 Three Feeling Concept Cards
Knowledge/Skill Building
40m
Day 17
🧩 Mixed-Media Feeling Prototype
Project Work
45m
Day 18
👂 Emotion Feedback Picture Practice
Knowledge/Skill Building
35m
Day 19
🔎 Two-Peer Emotion Test
Research
45m
Day 20
🛠️ Two Emotion-Clarity Revisions
Project Work
45m
Day 21
✅ Revised Prototype Clarity Check
Assessment
45m
Refine & Share
Days 22–27
Day 22
👀 Audience Clues and Emotion Evidence
Knowledge/Skill Building
40m
Day 23
🎨 Refined Mixed-Media Emotion Artwork
Project Work
45m
Day 24
🧑🤝🧑 Visitor Test and Final Change
Community Experience
45m
Day 25
🎙️ Artist Reflection Voice Rehearsal
Knowledge/Skill Building
40m
Day 26
🎧 Recorded Reflection and Gallery Plan
Deliverable
45m
Day 27
✅ Gallery Story Readiness Check
Assessment
45m
Showcase
Days 28–30
Day 28
🎤 Emotion Gallery Rehearsal
Knowledge/Skill Building
40m
Day 29
🖼️ Feelings Through Art Showcase
Community Experience
45m
Day 30
🌟 Emotion Artist Reflection
Assessment
40m
October 2026
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
12
Day 1
Launch
🎨 Emotion Gallery Adventure
13
Day 2
🔺 Feeling Choices Laboratory
14
Day 3
🖍️ Emotion Art Test Cards
15
Day 4
Listen & Notice
🎨 Color and Shape Feeling Detectives
16
Day 5
🖐️ Texture Mood Material Lab
19
Day 6
🎤 Peer Feeling Interview Cards
20
Day 7
🎵 Sound and Movement Emotion Match
21
Day 8
🧩 Four-Feeling Empathy Chart
22
Day 9
👀 Emotion Evidence Listening Checkpoint
23
Day 10
Frame the Feeling
🧩 Emotion Evidence Clusters
26
Day 11
🎯 Artwork Purpose Picture Sort
27
Day 12
🔎 Audience Reaction Pattern Hunt
28
Day 13
🖼️ Personal Story Purpose Map
29
Day 14
💬 Feeling Design Brief Workshop
30
Day 15
✅ Emotion Plan Readiness Check
November 2026
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
2
Day 16
Make & Improve
🎨 Three Feeling Concept Cards
3
Day 17
🧩 Mixed-Media Feeling Prototype
4
Day 18
👂 Emotion Feedback Picture Practice
5
Day 19
🔎 Two-Peer Emotion Test
6
Day 20
🛠️ Two Emotion-Clarity Revisions
9
Day 21
✅ Revised Prototype Clarity Check
10
Day 22
Refine & Share
👀 Audience Clues and Emotion Evidence
11
Day 23
🎨 Refined Mixed-Media Emotion Artwork
12
Day 24
🧑🤝🧑 Visitor Test and Final Change
13
Day 25
🎙️ Artist Reflection Voice Rehearsal
16
Day 26
🎧 Recorded Reflection and Gallery Plan
17
Day 27
✅ Gallery Story Readiness Check
18
Day 28
Showcase
🎤 Emotion Gallery Rehearsal
19
Day 29
🖼️ Feelings Through Art Showcase
20
Day 30
🌟 Emotion Artist Reflection