2-D Paper

My lesson was on 2-D paper. We talked about Dr. Seuss, his history, and his achievements. We talked about environmental issues as well and then related the issues to the Lorax. I explained that the Lorax is the protector of trees in the story. I had each of the students make up their own Lorax and place their Lorax in an place where there are environmental issues. They then had to put a positive message about how to prevent the issues. The below images are my example, my bulletin board description, and my bulletin board.

Extension: My student will do research about their issue and find out what city has the most pollution for example. They will then research different organizations that are trying to help make a difference and present them to the class with descriptions and feats that the organization has completed.

Scratch Flag

In the scratch flag project, we picked out our favorite color crayon to make the back ground and hen applied the black covering (which would be scratched off later). We made flags that represented who we are and what we liked. I scratched/drew my favorite restaurants (Applebee's and Buffalo Wild Wings), sports I enjoy playing, and camping materials.

Extension: Each student will make this flag on an ipad with pictures that they have took and then write a description of where they were, why they chose that item, and what the picture represents.

Watercolor Planets

In this lesson, we learned about artists: Ludek Pesek and Lucien Rudaux. They are known for the artwork of planets. We made our planets with different techniques of watercolor painting. We named our planets and then made up facts about our new planets!

Extension: The students could write reflections on how their planet is similar and different compared to earth hitting points of: life on the planet, resources, gravity, etc...

Crafts- Weaving

In this lesson, we learned about weaving. We made examples with colored construction paper slips. I used blue, yellow, and teal/green colors. Yellow represents the sunshine, blue represents the water at a lake, and green to represent the turtle. Then I drew waves and turtles as well.

Extension: The students will make up their own state/country/planet and they will create their own flag. They will draw on their flag like above, but with their own design. Then they will describe what they drew and what the symbols represent. Finally they will explain why they chose their 3 colors and what they mean.

Art and Social Studies

Within this class period we learned about what totem poles are and how they originated. We also learned what different animals and colors represent. My colors represented power, war, and endless skies. My animal, as you can see below, is an eagle.

Extension: Students will create more animals that could be on totem poles with descriptions of what they symbolize. They can also add to the list what different colors can mean as well. Then they will make more totems and add them to their previous totems to actually make a totem pole. Once their totem pole is finished they will write about what everything represents and how it relates to them.

Art & Science

This lesson we learned all about the foreground, middle ground, and background. Then we talked about different biomes around the world. I selected the grassland biome with a mountain range and tree line in the background. We used different watercolor techniques to finish this piece. I used paint on water and also dry brush techniques.

Extension: The students will pick a different country and research about their climate. They will then compare that climate to the one they live in and write a reflection about the similarities and differences.

The Dot

This project was based on a book called The Dot. We learned about different effects of crayons, color pastels, and markers on coffee filters. The color really pops when you use the color pastels.

Extension: For younger children you could make cool holiday theme projects similar to these. For Christmas you could use green and red or make a coffee filter mistletoe. For Halloween, you could make jack-o-lanterns or masks of some sort. These could add to notes the students could write for their parents/families.

Hidden Safari

The hidden safari project turned out very well! The picture does not quite give it justice. It is very cool when you know what you're looking for that you can see the image. Yet the viewer won't notice the image when you don't know what you're looking for.

Extension: Each student will draw a president in the hidden background. At the bottom of the page the students will give 5 clues/facts/accomplishments that their president made. Then all the students will exchange and see if others can find out who they drew!

Oil Pastel Skyline

This class we learn about Frank Gehry. We saw many different interesting styles of architecture in a variety of different cities. For the creation of the buildings, we cut out construction paper and drew the outline of the 3 buildings in a different pattern. We used colored pastels to make the building glow like a city at night. 

Extension: After talking about the glow of a city, each student will do research on the resources that are used yearly by big cities like Toronto, NY City, Orlando, or Chicago. They will then search for solutions to help the city's most extreme usages and present to the class.

Starry Night Collage

In this lesson we learned about Vincent Van Gogh and his piece, Starry Night. We used colored tissue paper for the background and cut out silhouettes for our foreground. I used color pastels to show more emphasis and give more shape to my foreground. In the background, I used the pastels to add more color so there wasn't black space. I didn't want black space, because the back ground was a sunset and I wanted the sky to be full of color.

Extension: After doing this project, the students would explain the climates, vegetation, and animals involved in the environment that they made. Then they would go on to make a food web for their environment and present what they learned about their habitat to the class.

Clay

This project we learned about different aspects of clay and how to make clay projects. We were able to customize our hands with addition or subtraction. As you can see from the picture below, I did both. My initials were the subtraction and the addition was the basketball on the bottom of the palm.

Extension: My extension would be language arts based. We would make hands and connect them when each individual is finished. Then each student would write a few sentences about why cooperation is important in the classroom.

3-D Hot Air Balloon

This lesson we had partners and painted plates. We folded them a certain way to make the masterpiece below. It took a lot of cooperation and teamwork to get this project done. It was a nice bonding time for my partner and me.

Extension: My lesson would be about transportation and how it has changed throughout time. The students would make a timeline of when different types of transportation were invented. When we get to each vehicle we would make a model of it in some way if it is through drawing, clay, or other types of models.

Printmaking

This was the printmaking lesson. We used gel pads, paint, stencils, and rollers to make these creations. It gave us all a chance to do something we have never done before and be creative with it. Once we got comfortable we were able to experiment with some more stuff, like more than one color and more than one stencil style. It was a lot of fun!

Extension: My extension is a science project where we pretend that a certain environment goes extinct and the students will make fossils for different animals in the environment they choose. They will write a reflection of how it went extinct and what different animals they made fossils for.

Elements and Principles of Design: Pictures

We made presentations of the photo that we took that represent different elements and principle of art that we see in our everyday life. Many of my pictures are from my house or places that I am regularly to show that this is some aspect of art in everything you see. Below are my favorite/best representations of these elements/principles.

The picture above shows space.

This picture shows shapes.

This picture shows lines.

This picture shows variety

Extension: My extension would have the students find an object that has symmetry or asymmetry. The students would then trace half the picture and draw the other half with a pencil and color with colored pencils. 

Foot Print Introduction

This is my first project in Art Methods. It is an outline of my shoe with images to help introduce myself to my peers and my future students. It has a variety of things that I like and care about on there. When I present it to my class it can be helpful for my class to learn about and relate to! When the students do it, and I learn about them it can make conversations easier and make them more comfortable.

As an extension, the students could do the same thing and use it, not only to introduce themselves, but also could pertain to math by measuring the foot. we could measure the classroom and find how many of their feet it would take to cross the room. We could make a line of everyone's feet and measure the total length of our feet as a class, and see how many of the total it would take to go around the entire world!