Inquiry for Visual Arts
What skills do you specifically coach and when?Discussion and Reflection
Children are incredible creative and
resourceful, I love the crab in the sky like a constellation. This
artwork is a combination of materials, formal element of composition and narrative.
It it really interesting to record words and actions a child may use to
create a picture. This will assist them to develop their language and
communication. As a teacher this language allows me to connect with the
student and discover how they use and see language.
This illustration shows that young
children are quite able to understand and learn cultural design practices. within design there is also elements of spatial
arrangement and a relationship to a grid.
These are photos of art and science
in PE3, prep/grade 1. There are two area of art integration within this project.
The first and most simple is the decoration on the box. The
students worked in groups and as a group they decorated the box and in this
process they connected to each others stories, visual symbols and group
understanding. The second area is the visual process of putting the
potted nasturtiums in the box with a circle shape removed from the box and
seeing the plants move and grow towards the light. This second area is a
real merging of visual arts and science.
(Catherine)
Beautfiul images Catherine!
I came into the classroom when the
students were undertaking a marine science unit so I ran a seperate science
activity with them and two art activities. The first one was to introduce the
skin, shell, scales and fur textures of marine animals (and to discuss why they
had this particular outer coating) and then I cut four images of marine animals
into six equal parts each. The students were given a square portion of the
image and had to draw it to scale on a bigger piece of paper. (I firstly
had to give them a in drawing to scale!) Once the images were drawn we
displayed them in the original order and had these fabulous abstract marine
animals!
I have added this lesson plan under the 'for the classroom' heading below.
This artwork looks amazing and this sounds like a great class
integrating art, science and maths, with a definite maths mini lesson.
What was the students reaction when they became empowered through this
new knowledge about scale? It would be great to work develop some maths lessons
about scale. Did you undertake any drawing or rubbings of the marine
animals and texture?
The students were terrified of drawing to scale, until they had a go at it! There weren't any rubbings done of the marine animals but the second activity incorporated rubbings, sketchings and a study of shells. I gave a mini lesson on what shells were, their purpose and where they came from, then the students created pieces of artwork with rubbings and sketchings of the shells.
As with the images we drew last week
for the music tutorial, each time a piece of artwork is created, it captures to
personality and soul of the creator. My Daughter has a very logical mind, her
drawn images are made up of shapes, when using counters or even playdough there
are even lines or patterns, it's very interesting to see from a three year old.
I love it! (Tanya)
Toolkit - for the classroom
For a history lesson, I would like to incorporate drama and art to create role playing which tells historical tales within the classroom. The art component of this would be to research and look at the movements of the time, recreate some and display in the scene to set the mood. the students could also work in groups to cover the clothes of the time, furniture, climate, social events etc and could recreate history in a very visual way. I have a book detailing 50 major art ideas. (Hodge, 2011)
Marine Animals scale drawing lesson plan for grade six (Tanya)
Shells texture and pattern lesson plan for grade six (Tanya)
Resources:
Hodge, S., (2011) 50 art ideas you really need to know, London, Quercus Publishing Plc.
English curriculum. ACARA. 2011. http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/English/Content-structure
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