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Helpful visual when thinking about how a lesson plan will engage critical thinking in students: Example Lesson Plan Theme/big idea: Community, interconnectedness Goal: For my classroom to learn about each other and see beyond stereotypes or biases To exercise acting like a community and thinking about each other as a community To understand how interconnected they are and explore how their actions can effect one another. The Steps: I'd begin the lesson by giving each kid a p

Exploring Adjustment Settings in the Digital Art iPad   App "Procreate" Materials: $1,099 - $1,700 iPad Pro 13-inch M4 , one $12.99 Procreate Software , one Version 5.4.7 Other Possible iPad Options: $349 Standard iPad $499 iPad mini $599 iPad Air 11″ $799 iPad Air 13″ $999 iPad Pro 11″ $1,299 iPad Pro 13″ Findings From the Adjustments Drop Down Menu: Blurs Gaussian Blur: makes image soft and fuzzy, too much can make the image smaller and blur until it disappears Motion

Here is how I took notes on the National Core Arts Standards. These are set by the National Art Education Association and can be found here: https://www.arteducators.org/resources/standards/national-visual-arts-standards/ The document was very dense but printing it out and trying to visualize how to layout, layer, and color code the information in my mind helps me recall information by having a mental picture to reference. The "artistic process" and "anchor standards" help gu

Materials: $58.79 Winsor Newton Oil Pastels , 30 pack $9.74 Artist's Loft Oil Pastels , 36 pack $6.99 48 pack Necessities set $5.02 Crayola Oil Pastels ,   28 pack $51.70 class 336 pack $10.72 Portfolio Series (Crayola) Oil Pastels ,   24 pack $89.99 class 300 pack Paper: Price, Strathmore Sket

For my museum visits I first went to the Before the Americas Exhibit in the Mason Art and Design building gallery space (originally intended to be in the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC but shut down for "being part of DEI" by the Trump administration). Then I visited the National Museum for Women in the Arts. The Before the Americas Exhibit is about 4 themes or big ideas: ancestral memories, migration, invisibility and inter connectivity. The work is by major art

When designing lesson prompts you have to take a lot of big, complex ideas and strategically go about explaining it so it's digestible for students. Our reading (chapters 3-4 of Teaching Meaning in Artmaking by Sydney R. Walker) discussed how you have to build skills and a knowledge base with students to make introducing those big ideas and certain activities possible. Ideally each lesson can build off each other until the students can reach the overall end goal in develop

In our Intro to Teaching and Learning Class we talked about all the different things we can do with our hands and discussed prompting kids with questions like these at the beginning of class to get them thinking. Then we folded fortune tellers and were prompted to make a game for kids out of them. In my game, the kids can start off by making fortune tellers and making them into monsters of their choice (with some sort of teeth). How to Play: 1) Once those are finished, a ki

Comparing the more expensive and technical markers, paint markers, and ink pens for high schoolers. Pentel Aquash Water Brush $17.41 pack of 4 Micron $154.18 Blick pack of 73 assorted colors $219.99 Staples pack of 73 assorted colors $139.18 Blick 72 pack black, all sizes $132.99 Walmart 72 pack black, all sizes ___________ Pagather Acrylic Marker $24.63 Walmart pack of 72 colors, $31.98 Pagather site $49. 98 Walmart pack of 120 colors, $46.98 Pagather site Chisel option

How book bind and create your own sketchbook Materials: 12" x 7" Cardboard 2" x 7" Graph Paper 10" x 7" pieces of paper (12 of these) 3 Strands of Thread Bone Folder Needle Awl Binder Clip Glue (preferably Yes glue) Scissors Ruler Step 1: Fold your 10" x 7" paper in half, making the creases crisp by running over them with the bone folder Sort the paper into 3 groups, each one layered together with each creased part of the paper tucked inside one another. These are called "si

Me: Me in the Classroom: This is my collage in response to the "Dressing Up: Exploring the Fictions and Frictions of Professional Identity in Art Educational Settings" reading by Amy L. Pfeiler-Wunder. The main point of the reading was dissecting the question: what parts of your identity and self expression do you share in the classroom and what do you hide? How does your sense of self and identity effect how you engage with and affect students? My take away from the reading

This collage is a response to the reading "Every Day a Festival" in our textbook Roots of Art Education Practice by Mary Ann Stankiewicz. In it I show a teacher teaching about different holidays and celebrations with a book above her that's flippable with different holidays and celebrations from different cultures around the world. The rest of the spread I made into a library to represent how there's even more holidays and celebrations and traditions from different cultures

Illustrating my Art making Process: For the visual representation of my artmaking process I made the main themes or actions in the process into color coded stepping stones and with the black line show how many times I repeat those same steps and in what order to bring a project from an idea to completion. Themes or Actions: Red:  Meeting with client Orange:  Tinkering/adjusting Yellow:  Research Green:  Initial ideation and brainstorming phase Blue:  Asking questions and aski

Writing a prompt that connects to the properties of watercolor Age group: middle school and high school. They may feel too old for crayons, if so, could use watercolor pencils. *See watercolor and acrylic mixed media idea at bottom of page* Concepts that would need to be established in previous lessons leading up to this one: Composition Rule of Thirds Value, black and white and with color Big Idea: "Focus" Would begin lesson by introducing a power point with examples of phot

Paper: $21-$24 Canson Watercolor Spiral Notebook , 90lb, 8.5" x 11", 48 pages $13.44 Strathmore Mixed Media Paper Pad 184lb, 11" x 14", 15 pages (spiral notebook version of 40 pages would be $16.16) $7.99-$21.39 Strathmore Drawing Spiral Notebook , 64lb, 9" x 12", 60 pages Materials: $30.92 Faber-Castell Watercolor Pencils , pack of 24 in tin pack of 8 (may be discontinued)