New World Transportation
Lesson 2: Day 1
Project/Unit Description/Expedition:
Your new planet has passed Earth’s tests for a sustainable life- that means it is time for people to start moving to your planet from Earth! Before the spaceship of people arrive, you need to create a way for them to get around your planet. Just like we have cars, buses, trains and planes here on Earth, your planet needs to give people the ability to get around! Your MISSION is to create a new vehicle for your planet!
Today, students will be introduced to their new project that will continue for the rest of the semester. We will be discussing different modes of transportation and how that aspect of movement will fit into the new world the students created for their last piece!
Essential Understanding (s):
Inquiry/Learning Target:
Students will design a mode of transportation that fits with their Habitable Planet from the previous lesson by looking at photo/artist/video references, using modeling clay, and sketches in their sketchbook.
Key Concepts:
Skills:
Art Focus:
Students will use the inferences from other works of art and current transportation models to create 3D miniature models and sketches in their sketchbooks. These sketches will lead to their final assemblage sculpture.
Literacy Focus:
Vocabulary:
Three Dimensional
Transportation (and how it compares to Earth’s transportation)
Form (3D) vs. Shape (2D)
Functionality (Does it actually work? How will it work in your world?)
Knowing and understanding the vocabulary above, written and verbal activities will be accomplished during class to show the students understanding of each concept and their expected outcome.
Documentation:
Today's class focused on ideation. This was accomplished through talking as a group about transportation- their favorite way to travel and get around town. They were then given modeling clay to play with a 3 dimensional material to help ideate for their next project: A method of transportation for their world. Check out the Gallery of images below to see some of the student's ideas unfold:
Your new planet has passed Earth’s tests for a sustainable life- that means it is time for people to start moving to your planet from Earth! Before the spaceship of people arrive, you need to create a way for them to get around your planet. Just like we have cars, buses, trains and planes here on Earth, your planet needs to give people the ability to get around! Your MISSION is to create a new vehicle for your planet!
Today, students will be introduced to their new project that will continue for the rest of the semester. We will be discussing different modes of transportation and how that aspect of movement will fit into the new world the students created for their last piece!
Essential Understanding (s):
- Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches
Inquiry/Learning Target:
Students will design a mode of transportation that fits with their Habitable Planet from the previous lesson by looking at photo/artist/video references, using modeling clay, and sketches in their sketchbook.
Key Concepts:
- Form
- Style
- Observation
- Functionality
Skills:
- Generating or assessing solutions
- Comparing analogous situations: transferring insights to new contexts
Art Focus:
Students will use the inferences from other works of art and current transportation models to create 3D miniature models and sketches in their sketchbooks. These sketches will lead to their final assemblage sculpture.
Literacy Focus:
Vocabulary:
Three Dimensional
Transportation (and how it compares to Earth’s transportation)
Form (3D) vs. Shape (2D)
Functionality (Does it actually work? How will it work in your world?)
Knowing and understanding the vocabulary above, written and verbal activities will be accomplished during class to show the students understanding of each concept and their expected outcome.
Documentation:
Today's class focused on ideation. This was accomplished through talking as a group about transportation- their favorite way to travel and get around town. They were then given modeling clay to play with a 3 dimensional material to help ideate for their next project: A method of transportation for their world. Check out the Gallery of images below to see some of the student's ideas unfold:
After some time of exploring the 3 dimensional material and building on their ideas, we brought the class back to discuss Quality and Craftsmanship. The students were to choose which sculpture they liked the best and why, The class came to the agreement that the colorful dog and silver fox were put together with higher quality than the pig. Some students like the colorful quality on the dog and when they looked close, they were able to find details and toys they had at home. Another group of students chose the fox. They said they liked how it was put together, and that you cannot see how the artist attached the gears and other things to the inside of the fox. We discussed how the students could put materials together without having the mechanism on the outside- we will be using mainly hot glue for our project.
Before the ideation process started up again, we had a class discussion about other modes of real and not so real transportation. This created a spark in a lot of students. Check out the images below that were shown to the students during class.
We finished the discussion by watching two clips from Top Gear videos. These videos show cars that have been transformed to become a new type of transportation.
The first video shows a car transforming into a submarine. We started the video from the beginning and stopped it around 2:20 minutes. The next video depicted a competition between to types of cars, acting as trains. We focused on the decisions the creators made and why they chose them. We asked the students to think about the main reason for transportation on their new world as they watched. We started the video around 1:52 minutes and stopped watching at 4:50 minutes. |
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After the videos, we had one student take a particular liking to the train cars he saw, and create his own vehicle based of off some of the decisions the Top Gear creators made. Check out the videos below to hear what he has to say about his new mode of transportation:
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At the very end of class we asked the question: How is your new mode of transportation BOTH Art and Technology? Check out some of their discovery board answers below: