unit 3-stories
POPPLET - GROUP 3
inspired by: thomas hart benton & diego rivera
- This studio lesson related to the big idea of stories because it tells a story about a certain topic. The story I chose that often happens in classrooms was bullying. We wanted to draw something that would be useful in our classrooms. I chose to draw Finding Nemo characters because I knew that the majority of students have seen that movie and that they could relate to the characters.
- I might employ this visual art integration lesson into my future classroom if I am having problems with all of my students getting along. I could honestly see this poster hanging on the classroom in an elementary school. I chose the quotes, "It isn't big to make others feel small," because it gets the message across that bullying is a very hurtful thing to do. I also chose to write, "Just keep swimming," because that is a memorable quote from the movie and it makes me think that students should not give up. Like saying, just keep swimming, or just keep going, you can do it! It is a very effective way to get the message across to students. I could also create these art drawing cartoons with any subject if I wanted to get a certain message across through a cartoon image.
inspired by: faith ringgold
- This studio related to the big idea of stories because we used a storybook or a story that happened in our lives to give us an idea of what image we were going to draw. The storybook that I used was my very favorite throughout my entire childhood. The book is called Ten Cats Have Hats by Jean Marzollo. I used a picture of two cats and the main character. We also did a border around our image which made our image more interesting, because it left some room for interpretation rather than just one image that is somewhat obvious what the story is about.
- I might employ visual art integration utilizing this studio lesson in my own classroom by using it in literacy and having the students either create their own stories or be able to retell a story and give a presentation of their artwork. Throughout the semester I have felt like I have gotten more confident with my artwork and have improved a lot. Although, this has been my least favorite assignment of the semester because it just did not turn out how I wanted it too. I do think that that this lesson is a good idea and I would use it in my classroom, but I would give the students more time to plan out what they are going to do. That way the students will be able to make a finished product that they love.
- The second image is my feedback from our VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies) session that we had in class. My classmates gave PQP advice, which is Praise-Question-Polish. I think that this was a good way for students to evaluate classmates work, but still keeping it polite.
Praise - question - polish
Inspired by: jean shin
- This studio lesson relates to the big idea of stories because each individual piece of artwork my classmates made shares a different story. For example, Shelby Enright and I collaborated together for this project. For her found object she brought a penny and I brought a dollar. We decided that when we think of money we think of the correlation it has to the American Dream and the desire, to be rich, famous, and beautiful. For all of these desires money is necessary. This led us to the idea of making an American flag out of our money (we even had to go get more pennies). We wanted to use pennies because they often "useless" and thrown away, even though they do have value once enough of them are collected.
- I might employ this visual art integration lesson in my own classroom by allowing students this same opportunity, where they get to think of an object they would like to use for a sculpture and therefore use it to create a story that has a deeper meaning. It really takes a lot more thinking to come up with this project idea and to show a story with your object that means something to you. This is a lesson that I would truly use in my classroom because it was not like an original art project with regular materials. I could integrate this into literacy, by writing about our art, or about social studies, by doing research on the penny and the dollar. I could also integrate science, by finding information of the germs found on money, and also math by counting the money or the objects needed to make each sculpture.