For our fifth Wonderlab lesson, the students started class as astronauts that where on a space mission, documenting the different things they have seen, or see in space! Students had just learned about space, planets and the different atmospheres found in space the day before in their class so they came in with a lot of facts and information that helped create ideas, with the teacher asking for different things found in space, they students where able to orally create a list with the teacher on things they learned about that you might see in space. The teacher reminded the students of the use of chalk and chalk pastels they had explored with last wonder lab and the different rules and techniques that could be used to create their space documentation.
They had available chalk pastels and three different colors of paper in order to elaborate their ideas, as well as laminated prints of space images to reference - the teachers reminded the students of the chalk pastel rules, informing them to keep messy hands off others, always grab an apron to avoid clothes getting dirty, and no breaking of the chalk pastels. Some students leaned towards using the reference pictures as a guide in creating their cosmic galaxies using the colors found in the images in their own work, others went a route where they creating a story or plot to their drawings, like spaceships having a space battle, or seeing aliens in spaceships around them, or even being sucked into a black hole. Overall everyone utilized the chalk pastels, either blending the colors, creating sharp lines with the chalk pastels, or using both techniques.
Students were given an opportunity to share with their shoulder partner what they saw in space at the end of the lesson, allowing them to correlate they're doing with their ideas.
They had available chalk pastels and three different colors of paper in order to elaborate their ideas, as well as laminated prints of space images to reference - the teachers reminded the students of the chalk pastel rules, informing them to keep messy hands off others, always grab an apron to avoid clothes getting dirty, and no breaking of the chalk pastels. Some students leaned towards using the reference pictures as a guide in creating their cosmic galaxies using the colors found in the images in their own work, others went a route where they creating a story or plot to their drawings, like spaceships having a space battle, or seeing aliens in spaceships around them, or even being sucked into a black hole. Overall everyone utilized the chalk pastels, either blending the colors, creating sharp lines with the chalk pastels, or using both techniques.
Students were given an opportunity to share with their shoulder partner what they saw in space at the end of the lesson, allowing them to correlate they're doing with their ideas.
Inquiry/Learning Target:
Key Concepts:
Essential Understandings: Artists and designers use their imaginations to create their own visions of the universe and express it through their art
Skills:
- How do artists and designers tell stories with their art?
- How can artists use their imaginations to create visions of new or made up places?
Key Concepts:
- Through art, we can bring what is in our minds to life and share it with others
- Once you have explored a medium, you can better use it and manipulate it to create your unique vision
Essential Understandings: Artists and designers use their imaginations to create their own visions of the universe and express it through their art
Skills:
- Listening to instructions
- Sharing
- Creative problem solving
- Brainstorming
- Story telling
- Imagining new places
- Respecting others
- Cleaning materials
- Taking care of materials
- Keeping items separate from each other
- Keeping area clean
- Keeping selves clean
- Taking risks
- Community harmony maintenance
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"It looks kinda glow-y, is it glowing?"
"Yeah.. It's a gas planet? So it's gas I guess." This student found that they could use the material to change the textures of their depictions, showing the gas and semi-translucence of the planet by fading the edges. They created some solid planets near it, adding to the intentionality of the different textures. "What is it?"
"A galaxy" "Will it have any stars?" "It will..." "Planets?" "It will..." "Is this the background color?" "Yes" This student chose the black paper of the three options we provided, intending to change it slightly to have a dark but unique color, using their hands to blend the chalk pastel. They had a plan in their mind for this piece, and found a way to equally distribute color by using circles. |
"What's this?"
"Saturn" "And this?" "It WAS a moon, but I changed it.." "Just combining colors to make a giant galaxy I guess" This student was experiencing the intending and re-intending behind the art-making process, having a plan and then adapting as the drawing continues. They then explained they were now working on the galaxy by changing the colors of the paper, showing their re-intending of the colors that they wanted the backgrounds of their subjects to be. "What did you find in space?"
"I found an asteroid hitting earth and a black hole sucking it up. [...] And I'm making tinier black holes." This student used the pastels' ability to blur to identify motion. The student also covered over their stars with black when they were converting to black holes, successfully showing the story of the stars imploding. |