• Through discussion and worksheets, students will explore their own personal family heritage and stories of immigration and will be able to express these stories through the use of color and symbols 

(-Co Visual Art Standard: Observe and Learn to Comprehend, -GLE_2, -SHoM_ Express, -Art learning_ Symbolizing)

• Through viewing other modern artists, Students will formulate their ideas about the relationships between color and symbol and their personal stories.

(-Co Visual Art Standard: Relate and Connect to Transfer, -GLE_1, -SHoM_Stretch & Explore, -Art learning_Comprehending)

• After ideation, students will be able to create a silhouette mosaic piece that reflects their personal story and were able to choose a color that represents their personal feelings

(-Co Visual Art Standard: Invent and Discover to Create, -GLE_2, -SHoM_, Stretch and Explore, Reflect, Develop Craft, Expressing, -Art learning_ Planning, Color Mixing, Conceptualizing)

• After learning how to use the laser cutter and lab to create vector-based images, students will learn to cut out their symbols in mirrored acrylic medium to make their own personal “reflections”

(-Co Visual Art Standard: Invent & Discover to Create, -GLE_2, -SHoM_Develop Craft, -Art learning_Creating vector-based drawing  Technology: Laser cutter, Scanning)

• After writing ideation, students will be able to use the chalkboard wall in the outdoor classroom and write about these experiences to assess the hardships, challenges as the “wall” or barriers that they experience.  

(-Co Visual Art Standard:Envision and Critique to Reflect, -GLE_2, -SHoM_Reflect, -Art learning_ Reflecting Literacy: Applying concept terms in writing using ideation worksheet)

• During reflection and discussion, students will be able to discuss and communicate their personal ideas on the positive aspects, pride, and humanization of these shared experiences. 

(-Co Visual Art Standard: Envision and Critique to Reflect, -GLE_2, -SHoM_Reflect, -Art learning_Visual Communication)

• During reflection and discussion, students will be able to communicate their process and their ideas about both their symbols and colors and the meanings behind them in a class discussion period reflecting on the completed mural/mosaic wall. 

(-Co Visual Art Standard:Envision and Critique to Reflect, -GLE_1, -SHoM_Reflect, -Art learning_Self-analysis)

• After constructing their group mosaic project, students will reflect and  consider related issues to the topic of immigration after reflecting and discussing the experiences of their peers and self inquiry.  (ie. Why do people immigrate? What reasons? What are the concerns of immigrants? (ie. Racism, sexism, climate change, resources) 

(-Co Visual Art Standard:Envision and Critique to Reflect, -GLE_3, -SHoM_Reflect, -Art learning_Relating, and Interpreting)