Project Description/Expedition:
" Hello, my friends! Let me tell you my story. As you can see, I am a scientist! I have been one for thirty years now, working in my lab, mixing chemicals and creating new things. I had an extraordinary life, but there was only one problem with that...it gets to be quite lonely working all alone in my laboratory. So I found a solution. I found all the best parts and a wonderful brain, used my scientific skill, and created what I call... FRANKENFRIEND! Frankenfriend has been my best friend ever since."
Students went to five different centers - drawing, painting, printmaking, clay, and found-object sculptures- to create works of art with a story behind it. Students had less than ten minutes to explore the materials and told stories during the process.
Essential Understanding:
Artists can create art work in multiple mediums after experimenting with various processes.
Inquiry/Learning target:
I can use centers to create art that tells a story.
Key Concept(s):
Centers,
Exploration,
Printmaking.
Skill(s):
Students will explain how the art work at each center has a story.
Art Focus:
Students will learn how to make art using multiple mediums.
Students will learn the mono-printing process.
Literacy Focus:
Vocabulary: Two-dimensional, three-dimensional, centers, choice, scenes.
Literacy: story telling
Student examples are below
" Hello, my friends! Let me tell you my story. As you can see, I am a scientist! I have been one for thirty years now, working in my lab, mixing chemicals and creating new things. I had an extraordinary life, but there was only one problem with that...it gets to be quite lonely working all alone in my laboratory. So I found a solution. I found all the best parts and a wonderful brain, used my scientific skill, and created what I call... FRANKENFRIEND! Frankenfriend has been my best friend ever since."
Students went to five different centers - drawing, painting, printmaking, clay, and found-object sculptures- to create works of art with a story behind it. Students had less than ten minutes to explore the materials and told stories during the process.
Essential Understanding:
Artists can create art work in multiple mediums after experimenting with various processes.
Inquiry/Learning target:
I can use centers to create art that tells a story.
Key Concept(s):
Centers,
Exploration,
Printmaking.
Skill(s):
Students will explain how the art work at each center has a story.
Art Focus:
Students will learn how to make art using multiple mediums.
Students will learn the mono-printing process.
Literacy Focus:
Vocabulary: Two-dimensional, three-dimensional, centers, choice, scenes.
Literacy: story telling
Student examples are below
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Here the student expressed a story where he and his brother were the heroes! At the drawing center, he drew with oil pastels to draw an entire storyline. It begins with the big blue bus, then the bad guys explode bubble gum everywhere. He expressed this by drawing all over the monsters and the bus with pink pastels. Then, he wrote his name at the top and his brother's at the bottom to tell who calls the police and saves the day. The blue and red in the middle of the drawing are lights of a police car. At the end, he put a period to show the story was over. Even after everything was all drawn, he was still able to tell me the story by drawing on top to show the movement of his storyline. Very few students used literacy in their stories, so it was great to see he was highlighting himself and his brother to emphasize the heroes and later to end the story.
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Students work together at the printmaking center, where they tried out a new medium: mono-prints. All of the students quickly picked up the technique with the help of Frankenfriend, the printmaking master. Most of them did landscapes with homes or prints of figures. This image shows the exploration of covering the entire plate with color versus leaving negative space in the building and background.
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This student created a horse with tons of legs. As the teachers asked him questions, he came up with answers, such as where the horse lives and what he does with all of his legs. The student responded very quickly to all of the questions and thought about the stories behind it.
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This student explains how a scientist is mixing a magic potion to pour on a blanket to make it magic. After the video, he continued to paint on top of the image a covered the entire thing in the potion, as if to show the progression of mixing the potion to the blanket being magic.
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This student created a haunted house at the modeling clay center. As he explained the story behind his house, he moved items around to fit his story better, adjusting the material along the way.
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This story relied simply on the shape of the object. As he explained it, he moved through the shape, showed the ending point, explained what would happen in the middle, and led us out.
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Overall, the day was a success! The mad scientist an Frankenfriend heard many interesting stories and the students got to experiment with five different mediums in one day.