- CRAZY CREATURES 2D -
Lesson Description
Today students created their own two-dimensional Crazy Creature on paper. Class began with a recap from last time’s highlights that made the Discovery Board. There were only two students on the board this week, so students were encouraged to make more discoveries this class period. Students began with sketchbook time where they glued in their brainstorming activities from last class and revisited ideas from the week before. Then, Kelly and Jennie demonstrated techniques for creating implied and actual texture, such as paper feathers, leaf rubbings, and tin foil “scales.” Students had the rest of the class to explore these techniques and others in the creation of their Crazy Creature. Each of the students told a story about their creatures and some even gave them clever names!
Enduring Understandings
Learning Target
Students will be able to create a 2D creature from animals, people, plants, and machines using implied and actual texture
Key Concepts
Ideation, texture, living things, pattern, animals, function, parts to whole, collage
Skills
Cut and glue, imagine, observe, combine
Art Focus
Exploring actual 3D and implied 2D textures
Literacy Focus
In-process critiques (talking about art as it is being made), telling stories about our creatures
Today students created their own two-dimensional Crazy Creature on paper. Class began with a recap from last time’s highlights that made the Discovery Board. There were only two students on the board this week, so students were encouraged to make more discoveries this class period. Students began with sketchbook time where they glued in their brainstorming activities from last class and revisited ideas from the week before. Then, Kelly and Jennie demonstrated techniques for creating implied and actual texture, such as paper feathers, leaf rubbings, and tin foil “scales.” Students had the rest of the class to explore these techniques and others in the creation of their Crazy Creature. Each of the students told a story about their creatures and some even gave them clever names!
Enduring Understandings
- People investigate new ideas by synthesizing pieces of reality
- Environments fit the needs of living things
- The characteristics of living things are designed for function
Learning Target
Students will be able to create a 2D creature from animals, people, plants, and machines using implied and actual texture
Key Concepts
Ideation, texture, living things, pattern, animals, function, parts to whole, collage
Skills
Cut and glue, imagine, observe, combine
Art Focus
Exploring actual 3D and implied 2D textures
Literacy Focus
In-process critiques (talking about art as it is being made), telling stories about our creatures
- THE ART MAKING -
A student tells a story about his creature, hypothesizing the possible purposes of different components he will give it. He explains that his creature's dark purple coat functions as camouflage at night for protection.
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This student synthesized both living and nonliving parts while making her creature. She decided to use tin foil to include a jet on its back. She explained how the jet functioned to help the creature go faster and created a trail of steam behind it.
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This student used his imagination to describe the elements he combined to make his creature. His three-headed gecko had multiple regenerating tails. Through touch and observation he also inferred what the actual texture might feel like, and used words such as soft or scaly to describe it.
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