For this assignment you are a going to create a Visual Arts activity for your thematic curriculum unit. It can be 2-dimensional (painting, drawing) or 3-dimensional (sculpting, collage). Choose one sub-topic and think about how you might use a visual arts activity to explore the essential questions and big ideas.
Complete the Visual Arts Activity form and post it here.
Visual Arts Activity Planning
Jonette Julien
ECE211
Your theme and subtheme:
Plants
Different type of plants
How is this activity connected to the subtheme?
This activity helps connect to the subtheme by seeing the beauty the pic brings. The world is filled with many plants, trees, and even beautiful flowers. I believe art represents that a lot, because of its many colors, shapes, and sizes it can come in and so it is for plants, different shapes, size, color and more. An art can be anything that you can create, rather a painting, drawing, sculpting, designing, and even food. Plants are the same way, they have may me are just the same, just free, and have many different artistic ways. Plants are art, if you look close at a leaf you would see the beauty of it. The veins that create the leaf, the stem, everything about it is art. Flowers of different kinds, roses, daffodils, sunflowers, mint plants, snake plants etc, these are art when you take your time to study them. Every detail about them is amazing.
Introducing a Visual Arts Activity to Students: Visual arts activities are usually held in the Art Center of the classroom. The activity usually remains the same for several days. The teacher usually introduces it as a new activity and then students choose to go there and explore the materials. NOTE: Your activity should use creative mark making materials (i.e., not just the usual drawing/painting).
When Centers are Introduced: The teacher may demonstrate how to use the materials, show what she/he has made or show the materials that students will be using.
Materials
Crayons
Oil pastels
Tempera Paint
Glue spray
Glitter
Construction paper
scissors
White printer paper
Acrylic paint
Introduction
Today in class we are going to create a visual art activity. See what I have over here on the table? I have material for you to explore so you can create your very own visual art masterpiece. That’s right, a masterpiece, because you are all so creative and I know I have my own Picasso and Vince Vango in here. You have your paper of choice, construction paper/pieces, white paper. Also I have some play doh for you if you want to sculpt what it is that you want to create. Whatever you are creating I want you to give me a brief description about your creation and why? Remember we are still working on plants this week, and why they are important to us.
Explain the project. What will children be doing in this activity?
Teacher Support
Though students work mostly independently during center time, teachers scaffold their learning through talking with them and sometimes making art beside them. What questions might you ask your students as they work? What will you do to help them explore?
Students will…
Create whatever flower or plant you want to create with the materials. I want them to be free thinkers, not something they would have to google to trace and recreate, whatever come to mind. Today they are going to have a chance to create original plant masterpieces. Then we are all going to sit and discuss what each masterpiece is and why they think they created those specific materials. If you don’t know what to make, draw your most beautiful flower.
I will…
Wow ! What are you creating? I like to see what was going on in their mind when they started. Do you like flowers? Why did you draw that particular flower? Can you eat flowers? What can we make from flowers?
Nana Kvaratskhelia
ECE 211
visual art activity plan
Visual Arts Activity Planning
Your theme and subtheme:
Theme – Identity, Sub-theme – My culture/traditions.
How is this activity connected to the subtheme?
The activity is directly related to the sub-theme because we are going to share our traditional clothes or any detail that informs about our culture/traditions.
Introducing a Visual Arts Activity to Students: Visual arts activities are usually held in the Art Center of the classroom. The activity usually remains the same for several days. The teacher usually introduces it as a new activity and then students choose to go there and explore the materials. NOTE: Your activity should use creative mark making materials (i.e., not just the usual drawing/painting).
When Centers are Introduced: The teacher may demonstrate how to use the materials show what she/he has made or show the materials that students will be using.
Materials
Multicultural clothing set,
Flags from all the countries,
CD player,
Construction paper,
Crayons.
Introduction:
Today we are going to create a visual art activity. We will wear our traditional clothes and hold flags that represents countries we are coming from. We will speak about the occasions during which these clothes are worn, the process to make them and the materials and techniques used to knit/woven them.
Also, we will share knowledge about our flags, what do we know about it, how they were created. I have a construction papers and crayons if you want to draw a flag.
Explain the project. What will children be doing in this activity?
Teacher Support
Though students work mostly independently during center time, teachers scaffold their learning through talking with them and sometimes making art beside them. What questions might you ask your students as they work? What will you do to help them explore?
Students will…
Study each other’s cultural clothing and flag.
Ask each other questions, adjust each other’s clothes. They will draw flags. Their shared identity will make their experience more expansive.
I will…
Read a book that tells us stories about the countries we are coming from. I will scaffold kids to support and establish their heritage knowledge, how important it is to know and keep their culture and traditions, as well as to know about their each other’s cultural character to build respect of diversity.