Welcome to Intro Day!
This is the first day Jonathan and Lizzy will be in the classroom and working with the students in the subject of Art!
Project/Unit Description/ Expedition:
Please excuse this interruption from your local news station: We have just been notified that there is a meteor is headed this way. A select group of elite creative thinkers (YOU) have been chosen to be sent to the moon. Your mission is to design a creative laboratory that will become the perfect working space for YOU! We have the ability to send any resources necessary, so let’s get creative! The purpose for this workspace will be for later use to design, create and build our future home. Lets get started brainstorming, and building our creative laboratory!
Today the students were given the prompt above to help focus their sketchbook cover design, but also lead into the next projects to come. This unit is called "Our Ideal World" and gives the students a chance to create a world they would want to live in from scratch and share it through multiple aspects of visual communication. This intro lesson specifically focused on creating personalized artwork for the front cover of the sketchbook - drawing their ideal thinking space / creative laboratory.
Please excuse this interruption from your local news station: We have just been notified that there is a meteor is headed this way. A select group of elite creative thinkers (YOU) have been chosen to be sent to the moon. Your mission is to design a creative laboratory that will become the perfect working space for YOU! We have the ability to send any resources necessary, so let’s get creative! The purpose for this workspace will be for later use to design, create and build our future home. Lets get started brainstorming, and building our creative laboratory!
Today the students were given the prompt above to help focus their sketchbook cover design, but also lead into the next projects to come. This unit is called "Our Ideal World" and gives the students a chance to create a world they would want to live in from scratch and share it through multiple aspects of visual communication. This intro lesson specifically focused on creating personalized artwork for the front cover of the sketchbook - drawing their ideal thinking space / creative laboratory.
Essential Understanding:
- Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches to develop technique and communicate ideas.
Inquiry/Learning Target:
- Students will create a sketchbook cover using their sketches, inherent characteristics/expressive features, critical thinking and originality.
Key Concepts:
- Ideation
- Artistic Reflection (thinking about art)
- Artistic Intention
Skills:
- Listening critically
- Thinking independently
- Giving reasons and evaluating evidence.
- Developing one’s perspective: creating and exploring beliefs.
- Developing criteria for evaluation: clarifying values and standards.
- Comparing and contrasting ideas with actual practice, noting significant similarities and differences.
Art Focus:
Students will explain and make inferences about artwork shown by the teachers. They will brainstorm, design and create a sketchbook cover showing their ideal creative laboratory. This will be created with any combination of pencil, colored pencil, oil pastel, and watercolor paint.
Students will explain and make inferences about artwork shown by the teachers. They will brainstorm, design and create a sketchbook cover showing their ideal creative laboratory. This will be created with any combination of pencil, colored pencil, oil pastel, and watercolor paint.
Literacy Focus:
Students will be learning vocabulary terms including thumbnail sketches and composition. They will also be encouraged to brainstorm with a list of ideas and discuss these ideas with the teachers and peers.
Students will be learning vocabulary terms including thumbnail sketches and composition. They will also be encouraged to brainstorm with a list of ideas and discuss these ideas with the teachers and peers.
Documentation
At the end of each lesson we will have a "ticket out the door"- this ticket will be placed on the discovery board. The students will have the chance to fill the board full of new discoveries at the end of each Art class!