Day 5: Teachers Presented on Lessons Exploring Texture, Narrative Art, Tableau, and More
July 31st, 2010
It has been a long but incredibly rewarding week at the Getty Center. On the fifth day of the seminar, teachers incorporated the strategies we discussed all week in their own arts-integrated lesson plans. I was so impressed by what they were able to accomplish in just a couple of days. Thank you to this year’s class of Art & Language Arts teachers. It has been so much fun discussing works of art and art education teaching strategies with you all week!
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- This morning’s media exploration involved making sun prints from items from nature. A great activity for sunny LA!
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- Teachers re-visited a painting that they wrote about on the first day of the seminar.
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- We were able to journal in quiet galleries before the museum opened to the public—at least for a little while!
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- Using hands as a viewfinder, one teacher notices how a detail of Manet’s painting was not created with just white paint alone, but several different colors.
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- Teachers share how their experiences of an artwork changed since the first day of the seminar. They returned to the work with more knowledge about art history, a deeper understanding of composition, and a greater appreciation for art!
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- Kindergarten and first grade teachers brainstorm on a lesson on texture in art and the environment.
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- Fourth grade teachers connected to a unit called “Risks and Consequences” through a discussion of a turbulent painting on the sea by Joseph Turner.
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- Kindergarten and first grade teachers used a painting of animals parading towards Noah’s Ark as the basis for teaching students texture words.
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- Second grade teachers compared a portrait of a beautiful princess to a painting of a man toiling in the fields.
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- To connect to a lesson that explores what body language communicates in art, teachers posed to depict different occupations. What occupation is being depicted here?
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- Third grade teachers developed a lesson incorporating tableau to consider what might have happened before and after a scene depicting a musician’s brawl.
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- Fifth grade teachers connect their language arts theme of “Cooperation and Competition” to a 19th-century painting of a demolished château.
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- The last day of our five-day seminar ended with cookies, brownies, lemonade, and of course free posters! What a wonderful way to celebrate the end of an intense and enriching week!
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