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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
🎨 Emotion Gallery Adventure
Launch 45m
🔺 Feeling Choices Laboratory
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🖍️ Emotion Art Test Cards
Project Work 45m

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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
🎨 Color and Shape Feeling Detectives
Knowledge/Skill Building 38m
🖐️ Texture Mood Material Lab
Knowledge/Skill Building 42m
🎤 Peer Feeling Interview Cards
Deliverable 45m
🎵 Sound and Movement Emotion Match
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🧩 Four-Feeling Empathy Chart
Project Work 45m
👀 Emotion Evidence Listening Checkpoint
Assessment 45m

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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
🧩 Emotion Evidence Clusters
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🎯 Artwork Purpose Picture Sort
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🔎 Audience Reaction Pattern Hunt
Research 45m
🖼️ Personal Story Purpose Map
Project Work 45m
💬 Feeling Design Brief Workshop
Deliverable 45m
✅ Emotion Plan Readiness Check
Assessment 45m

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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
🎨 Three Feeling Concept Cards
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🧩 Mixed-Media Feeling Prototype
Project Work 45m
👂 Emotion Feedback Picture Practice
Knowledge/Skill Building 35m
🔎 Two-Peer Emotion Test
Research 45m
🛠️ Two Emotion-Clarity Revisions
Project Work 45m
✅ Revised Prototype Clarity Check
Assessment 45m

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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
👀 Audience Clues and Emotion Evidence
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🎨 Refined Mixed-Media Emotion Artwork
Project Work 45m
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Visitor Test and Final Change
Community Experience 45m
🎙️ Artist Reflection Voice Rehearsal
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🎧 Recorded Reflection and Gallery Plan
Deliverable 45m
✅ Gallery Story Readiness Check
Assessment 45m

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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
🎤 Emotion Gallery Rehearsal
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🖼️ Feelings Through Art Showcase
Community Experience 45m
🌟 Emotion Artist Reflection
Assessment 40m

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