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Overview of Centers
❖ Each art element is explored in choice centers.
❖ Center themes based on art from each of the Olympic flag’s color continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas, Australia).
❖ Students fill out a passport (ArtPort) as they complete each center.
❖ I usually do the centers for two or three hours so students can do at least three of the five choices.
Use of technology in centers:
CDs, DVDsiPODs and earphones, speakers
Discovery Education videos, imagesStudent produced podcasts Imported podcasts
iMovie instructionsiMovie/Frame student productions
SmartBoard interactive games, toolsPaint programs, online plus KidPix, Pixie
Online resourcesClicker games
LINE DEFINESLooking at line as the basic art element
iPod centers/TV-DVD:Discovery Education video segments
YouTube segments
DVD on boom box
SmartBoard game "om onlineart source
❖ Game found on internet
❖ Museums have excellent educational components
❖ National Gallery of Art has exceptional activities
Australia traditional painting with dots, dotted lines
❖ CD with Australian photos and music inspired these artworks
SHAPE UNITESFORM INSPIRES
❖ Three major units:
❖ Musical instruments incorporating shapes in decoration and structure Technology: iMovie production
❖ Masks and animal sculptures: Taking shapes into a three-dimensional form Technology: use Discovery Ed images
❖ Circles in many cultures Technology: Kaleidoscope software, KidPix, Pixie
SmartBoard Notebook 10Map of Africa used to learn countries. Students then
matched mask images from DE to country.
Inuit masksPaint from images found in DE collection as well as photos from the DIA; live podcasts from the DIA
“Frames”Puppet
Productions--
A MuseumWalk
1) Students created mask or puppet on old CD2) Students took at least four digital photos, moving mouth, eye, browsto show comment on background artwork3) Students used “Frames” green screen to add audio, artwork
Shapes: Beyond Circles
Study of paisley,fractals,
weaving rectangles
Paisley introduced with clicker
questions
Where did the “paisley” shape originate?
COLOR IGNITES
❖ Flowers and plants as the subject
❖ Color as the art element
❖ “All the Colors of the Earth” DE video to introduce color to younger students
Teacher producedpodcast forinstruction,using studentartwork.
This podcast was shown on a large screen.Students then watched the enhanced student feature on
VanGogh before painting their complementary landscape or sti' life in Van Gogh’s style. Some students then produced their own podcasts using step by step digital photos of their work.
Student enhanced podcasts about artists:based on Art in Story by Marianne Saccardi
Garage band sounds as well as
nature sounds from
Soundboard
LIGHT ILLUMINATES❖ Exploring how artists use shadows
and light: DE video on science
❖ Research artists: Student podcasts
❖ Paint/draw in the style of the artist, demonstrating understanding of use of shadows and light
❖ Dress up as an artist/character in a painting to present findings
Angel Unit Inspired by European ART
Students viewed PowerPoint on angels inEuropean art. They came up with questions to be used in a Clicker Game the followingweek, for review of concepts.
Artwork Angels in glue glass andfabric dipped in thinned white glue
REcycled Art: Using junk, 100 ways to use a CDrom
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Younger grades workedin two or three centers.Line defined with leftoverbeads, yarn and felt.Shapes explored in “SnowGlobes” with CDs, felt, glitter,contact paper.
Go to ArtSonia: Southfield ChristianSchool to see lesson plans and artwork