K-8 Visual Art Curriculum Model
 

E-mail Mrs Jaci Wighers (Art Specialist -speaker)
E-mail Katie Metcalf Zaman (Fulbright - speaker)

 

Art Methods Syllabus- Course Outline

Overview Assignments

TEXT Resources
Resources


Lessons and Journals:
Jan 23 - Jan 30
Feb 6 - Feb 13 - Feb 20 - Feb 27
Mar 6 - Mar 20 - Mar 27
Apr 3 - Apr 10 - Apr 17 - Apr 24 - May 1

REQUIRED READING Chapters
11. Arts and Performing Arts
12. Art and Special Needs
13. Art and Gifted
14. Cognitive and Psychological Factors

How would you change your activity plan to address the needs of a child who was color blind?

How would you change your activity to address a child who had an exceptionally vivid imagination with very poor social skills?

Sign in 6:30 pm
Computer room

Computer lab with digaital imagery if we did not get done

Art Stations
Math: Tesselation software
Social studies: Cultural still life drawing
Science: Crayon-watercolor nature forms
Drawing from nature or Painting from rhythms of nature is ART Assignment #3 due
March 6


REQUIRED JOURNAL ENTRY
Summary of each assigned chapter
11-12-13
Brief eval of all chapter websites citing specific discipline relevancy
Journals from Ch 8-10 to be turned in
at the start of this class FEB 20 in folder/ (optional paper of CD)

ACTVITY SHEET: What did YOU want a student to learn integrating art with math, social studies or science.
What would you modify for a special needs child who was color blind?
What would you modify for gifted student with a vivid imagination but poor social skills?
Due March 6 with Journal

REQUIRED
Art Assignment #2:
(SHADOW STORY
Submit
rubric/self-evaluation due this class, Feb 20)
Rubric ART Assignment

 

 ART 202

FUNDAMENTALS of ART
for ELEMENTARY TEACHERS
Sem 2 - 2005-06
2 credits
January 23 thru May 1
No class spring break March 13


E-mail

FEB 20 : PRESIDENT'S DAY

Turn in folder with:
  • Native American Art Project (photo) and rubric
  • Shadow puppet (photo) with rubric
  • Chapters 8-10 summary
  • Chapters 8-10 websites review
  • Activity sheet #1 (what do you want a student to learn) integrating math, social studies or science with art

    Integrating Art into the Classroom

  • Ch - 8 Integrating Art and Math
  • Ch - 9 Integrating Art and Social Studies
  • Ch - 10 Integrating Art and Science
  • MODIFICATIONS: SECOND ACTIVITY SHEET, due March 6
    Use the same lesson, but what would be different?
    What did YOU want a student to learn integrating art with math, social studies or science?
    What would you modify for a special needs child who was color blind?
    What would you modify for gifted student with a vivid imagination but poor social skills?
    Due March 6 with Journal

CLICK TO SEE: paint.html

Carryover Digital Imagery

  • Digital images: Archives of jpegs, gifs, pdf's
  • Documentation of projects
  • Documentation of shadow puppet

Activity Planning: Unit Native American Indian CULTURE

Connecting art and disciplines

Math: Native American motifs: Tessellations
TRY SOFTWARE, PRINT COPY UNABLE TO LOAD IN LAB


Shareware: Tessellation builder

SEE hand-out, adjusting edges of a square: REPEAT PATTERN

What is a tessellation?
http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/whattess.html
A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again covering a plane without any gaps or overlaps. Another word for a tessellation is a tiling.

6th Grade Student Tessellations
http://gw011.k12.sd.us/student.htm

Student Projects
http://www.aacps.org/aacps/croftms/more_tes_2.htm

http://mathforum.org/alejandre/students.tess.html

Sciene: integrating visuals, photographs and video

TRY Shareware: NASA: virtual reality software

(NOTE: Drawing from nature or Painting from rhythms of nature is ART Assignment #3 due
March 6 )

Social Studies
: Cultures
Fourth Friday in September set aside as Native American Remembrance Day

Setting up and drawing a still life: Native American culture

Science: North America: Natural Rhythms from nature

If you give yourself the time at the side of a river and use your senses to take in what's around you, you will become aware of the natural rhythms all around you. Whether it's the sound or visual appearance of grasses blowing in the wind, the flow of the water or patterns of plants along the bank, all of these are natural rhythms.
Drawing nature forms, crayon with watercolor resist

Crayon lines -watercolor

Watercolor then crayon lines on top

white crayon shapes on white paper, watercolor over

white crayon, watercolor, marker

White crayon, black watercolor or ink

Brookwood Elementary : 5th Grade
http://brookwood.badger.k12.wi.us/~MAdams/art/art.htm#fifth_grade

"Colour helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon,
but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain."

Henri Matisse, 1945.

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