🗓️ Before Class: Teacher Prep
- Gather/set out: Computer with Adobe Illustrator.
- Pull up today's slide deck (see 🖥️ Slide Deck below) so it's ready to project.
🧑🏫 Substitute Teacher Guide
A scripted, step-by-step runsheet for today's class -- hand this to anyone covering the room who doesn't know the daily routine.
- Day 1: 📋 Open Substitute Guide
- Day 2: 📋 Open Substitute Guide
🎯 Essential Question
- How do we build a consistent set of vector icons using Illustrator?
📈 Learning Objectives
By the end of this lesson (2 Days), students will be able to:
- Use the pen and shape tools to build 3-5 related vector icons.
- Maintain visual consistency (stroke weight, corner style, grid) across the set.
- Export the icon set in an appropriate file format.
📐 Standards Alignment
CDOS (Career Development & Occupational Studies)
- CDOS 2 — Integrated Learning -- students will demonstrate how academic knowledge and skills are applied in the workplace and other settings.
- CDOS 3a — Universal Foundation Skills -- basic literacy, communication, and problem-solving skills required for a career.
ACP (Adobe Certified Professional) Photoshop Exam Objectives
- ACP 4.1 — Use core tools and features to create visual elements.
🎓 Study this for the ACP exam: Domain 4: Creating and Modifying Visual Elements
📚 Key Vocabulary
- Icon Set
- A group of icons designed to look like they belong together, sharing a consistent visual style.
- Stroke Weight
- The thickness of a line in a vector drawing, which should stay consistent across a matching set.
🧰 Materials & Tools
- Computer with Adobe Illustrator
🧠 Do Now (Warm-Up)
Look at the icons on your phone's home screen. What makes them look like they belong to the same "family"?
📋 Main Workshop / Lesson Sequence
This lesson spans 2 Days. Suggested pacing:
| Day | Focus | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Establishing a Style | Do Now (5 min, above). Mini-lesson/demo (12 min): building a consistent icon style (stroke weight, corner radius, grid). Guided practice (20 min): build one icon together as a class. Independent build, part 1 (8 min): start a second icon in the same style. |
| Day 2 | Completing the Set | Do Now (5 min). Independent build, part 2 (30 min): complete 3-5 related icons, maintaining consistency across the set. Export & share (10 min). |
✅ Assessment & Exit Ticket
Icon set scored with a rubric: 3-5 icons, consistent stroke weight and style, clean vector construction.
Exit Ticket: What is one specific choice you made to keep your icons feeling consistent as a set?
📊 Pull up the anonymous Class Check-In for students to fill out before they go.
🧩 Differentiation & Accommodations
English Language Learners: model every step live, then check in one-on-one; provide translated materials and vocabulary support as needed. Students with IEPs: apply the accommodations and modifications listed in each student's plan (examples include extended time, graphic organizers, speech-to-text tools, chunked instructions, and visual schedules). Students with attention-related needs: break tasks into short, checklist-driven steps and provide brief movement or focus breaks. Students ready for a challenge: take on a leadership role critiquing peers' work, extend the project with a second iteration, or research how today's skill is used professionally in the field.