EQ: How do we describe Piet Mondrian’s Artwork?
Mondrian Clip
https://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/1/8
What art elements can you identify in his work?
Think back about color…How would you describe the colors he uses?
Sorting and Grouping
Students group warm, cool, and neutral colors as an activating strategy. Students will begin a collage that demonstrates their understanding of using color to communicate a theme.
Henri Matisse
What is a collage?
What is art that is abstract?
How do we make organic shapes?
Check out second grade puppets made in art!
Dorey’s Class Puppets! from Marci Stake on Vimeo.
Mrs. Toomey’s Class Puppets! from Marci Stake on Vimeo.
Miss Miller’s Class Puppets from Marci Stake on Vimeo.
BLOG UPDATE!
Since I have completed the SMARTboard train the trainer course I am now creating all my lessons on SMART Notebook. This blog will now be utilized for images of student work, interactives, and links. Essential Questions will primarily be posted on SMART notebook files!
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EQ:What is a tint or shade?
What happens when you add white to the color green?
What happens when you add black to the color green?
5 EQ: How can artwork communicate a theme?
We will plan our 5th grade JMC tile mural.
Here are the ideas so far:
Sports, JMC (School Subjects), Beach
2 EQ: How to create kinetic art in the style of Alexander Calder?
Check out some of our 2nd grade students and their kinetic fish!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Artists who use hearts and LOVE as a subject
Jim Dine
Robert Indiana
Alexander Girard
Andy Warhol
K/1 EQ: How do we show visual texture in drawing?
Textures
Soft Hard Bumpy Smooth Prickly Rough Sticky Slimy
What do you think Dinosaurs would have felt like?
K/1 EQ: What is clay?
How do we manipulate clay?
What is a fossil?
Fossils are evidence of ancient life preserved in sedimentary rocks. On Earth, they are clues to what living things, ecosystems, and environments were like in the past.
Most fossils are from species that no longer live on the planet because they have become extinct.
4 EQ: How do different cultures use ceramics?
What tools are used in ceramics?
http://www.powayusd.com/teachers/parr/Ceramics/Lessons/Ceramic%20Vocabulary.pdf
How can artists manipulate clay to form vessels?
http://educators.mfa.org/galleries/detail/3093
History of Vessels:
http://www.ehow.com/facts_4912024_history-clay-jars-pots.html
SCRATCH ATTACH!
5 EQ: What is the process in finishing a clay project?
What are the different ways to build with clay?
How do we use clay tools properly in additive and subtractive sculpture?
http://www.lena.k12.wi.us/Clay%20Creating2.ppt#257,1,Slide 1
3 EQ: How can we use the elements and principals of art in a three-dimensional project?
What is form?
http://cdn.dickblick.com/lessonplans/rain-sticks/rain-sticks-rain-sticks.pdf (Rainstick Lesson)
2 EQ: How do we compare and contrast artworks and artists styles
Who was Vincent Van Gogh?
How are these paintings the same?
How are they different?
http://www.brainpopjr.com/artsandtechnology/art/vincentvangogh/talkaboutit/
K/1 EQ: What is repitition? Who was Vincent Van Gogh?
Vincent (Starry Starry Night) by Don McLean – AOL Music Player
Where is repition used in Vincent Van Gogh’s artwork?
Interactives & Websites!
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/art.html (Van Gogh SlideShow)
http://www.kidskonnect.com/subject-index/21-people/421-van-gogh-vincent.html (Van Gogh Facts)
http://www.moma.org/interactives/destination/destination.html (Interactive)
Starry Night Story
http://www.rif.org/assets/Documents/readingplanet/ReadAloud_Stories/starry_night.html
1 EQ: How has art changed from years ago to now?
What is a map?
How have maps changed?
How can we use the elements and principals of art to make our own Midnight Map?
