Archive for August 2009
4/5 Art Assessment
Posted on: August 30, 2009
I scoured the web for basic art assessments but only came up with rubrics for assessing art portfolios…
During my first visit into each classroom I will be doing basic assessments, whole group with the K/1 crowd and then written (xeroxed onto one sided “mistake” copies, of course) with the 2/3 and 4/5 graders. I will do this again at the end of the 1st trimester and then maybe choose to do it during the other 2 trimesters. I figure this might help SCRAP be able to show how this creative reuse curriculum could make a difference in a school that hasn’t had art classes in a long time (that’s not to say the teachers don’t teach art at all, but in terms of some sort of regular standard art education it’s been patchy). I’ll post the results sometime in the future.
Glue system for most projects
Posted on: August 26, 2009
Here is how I’m handling glue, since it doesn’t often come into SCRAP as a donated material. If you already have a set of class glue bottles that you can refill with one of those wompous gallon jugs, super.
I got this idea from The Art of Teaching Art to Children by Nancy Beal. Her book describes how she teaches art but many of her lessons involve having classes of 12 kids at a private school in her actual art room, so you might guess much of it didn’t translate to my current situation; however, the glue idea in particular is genius.
Elements of Art: Shape K/1
Posted on: August 26, 2009
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- Two intrepid artists choose and glue shapes to create a pleasing art piece.
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- A first grader added some lines to his shape composition; we doubled up on shape and lines since the class missed an art lesson due to early dismissal.
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan Week 3 Grade K/1
1st Trimester Whitman ES 2009-2010 written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP
Elements of Art: Shape
Cost per student: $.03
Materials: Baby food jar glue system, 8”x 11” paper, lots of small paper bits (cut up wall paper samples, magazine photos, old calendar and brochure images, etc – you cut them up into geometric and free form shapes ahead of time), 6” pre-cut shape examples
Students will be able to: identify shapes in artwork, and create their own composition using shapes.
Vocabulary: Shape, geometric, free-form
Elements of art: Line K/1
Posted on: August 23, 2009
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan Week 2 Grade K/1
1st Trimester Whitman ES 2009-2010 written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP
Elements of Art: Line
Cost per student: $.03
Materials: crayons (5 per student, no white crayons), 40+ rubber bands, paper, masking tape, newspaper, bookbinding strips (or just paper strips)
Note: tightly bundle crayons in bundles of 2 and 3 using the rubber bands before the lesson starts; also tape the sheets of white paper to a folded section of newspaper to make it less likely to rip and keep crayon marks off the table if they get a little excited.
Elements of Art: Line 2/3
Posted on: August 17, 2009
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- All of these would make a fine start to the project.
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- Begin filling in the empty space using… lines!
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- Aaaand you’re done.
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan Week 2 Grade 2/3
1st Trimester Whitman ES 2009-2010 written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP
Elements of art: Line
Cost per student: $.03
Elements of Art: Line 4/5
Posted on: August 17, 2009
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan Week 2 Grade 4/5
1st Trimester Whitman ES 2009-2010 written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP
Elements of Art: Line
Cost per student: $.01
Here we go… the first of many lesson plans. Gotta get the necessary stuff out of the way.
Posted on: August 17, 2009
Introduction to art, assessment, rules and procedures
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan Week 1 Grade K-1
1st Trimester Whitman ES 2009-2010 written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP
Cost per student: $0
Art Textbooks
Posted on: August 12, 2009
Whitman's art text books the principal dug up for me... published in 1987 but the artwork inside is still good.
These books have pretty good art examples in them, they solve the problem of me not having a large personal art library of examples to show kids when discussing the elements of art. So I can keep sets of 5 in my art closet and bust them out in class when we need to look for good examples of, say, the use of line or warm colors or shape, and then I don’t need to find and store 8 jillion posters. Plus, if teachers wanted to extend art lessons they could use the textbooks as a jumping off point.
Prospectus (Warning: might be boring if you’re not into the nuts and bolts of my art idea)
Posted on: August 12, 2009
Creative Reuse Pilot Program Prospectus
A partnership between Whitman Elementary School, Keri Piehl and SCRAP.
Summary:
Scrap and Keri Piehl are partnering with Marcus Whitman Elementary to create a one year art program focusing on providing a school that is otherwise without comprehensive arts programming with a full time volunteer certified teacher. This includes an independently written curriculum, art materials, school and community based displays, and concentrates on creative reuse as the backbone of an affordable, innovative elementary art program.
Art at Whitman ES 2009-2010
Posted on: August 11, 2009
Here’s the project: give a school an art program that otherwise wouldn’t have one. After deciding to go back to teaching and not finding what I was looking for (a third grade position, I know, I’m so ridiculous), I figured I’d invent a teaching job. Lori Clark, principal at Whitman ES in Portland, OR, was slightly surprised and very encouraging when I offered her a free certified teacher to teach art this year, all materials supplied. SCRAP (www.scrapaction.org) has delightfully offered to donate all the supplies so I can write a basic curriculum and teach art to 370 kiddos.
This blog will document my efforts, material costs, student, teacher and parent response, and lesson plans so you too can teach art on the cheap, if that’s not usually your forte.
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