Elementary Teachers Share Meaningful and Fun Arts-Integrated Lessons
August 6th, 2012
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After four full days of learning about art in the Museum’s collection and discovering strategies for discussing and making art, participants of the Art & Language Arts program developed seven original lesson plans—all in a few hours time!
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- One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. In our final media exploration, teachers were challenged to make art out of recycled materials. Note the fanciful French swings created by our fabulous intern Iris.
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- Teachers explore the array of interesting forms available from Trash for Teaching.
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- Teachers share ideas while playing with recycled materials to create a variety of shapes and forms.
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- A queen emerges from bins of recycled materials.
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- Ah! It’s another beautiful day at the Getty Center.
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- Teachers exit the galleries after writing about the same work of art they selected on Monday. They discovered so much more in their selected artworks after over four days of intensive training.
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- Third and fourth grade teachers refine their lesson with museum educator Theresa Sotto.
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- Tan Pratontep describes his lesson, which connects his autistic students to works of art.
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- SDC teachers present on their lesson, which focuses on expressive gestures in a sculpture and a painting.
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- To create sculptures that communicate poses, all you need are a few twist ties and a little bit of imagination.
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- Fifth grade teachers connect to their “Take a Stand” unit by discussing Walker Evans’s Bridgeport Parade.
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- A great way to reinforce students’ knowledge of shapes is to use paper shapes on the document reader.
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- After discussing the shapes visible in a family portrait by Johann Zoffany, students can use paper shapes to create their own family portraits.
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- Teachers demonstrate how to enhance students’ skills at comparing and contrasting by discussing family portraits by Johann Zoffany and Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam.
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- Question: What’s a fun way to teach the concept of balance in works of art?
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- Answer: Try balancing on one leg while your arms are on the shoulders of a partner.
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- Inspired by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux’s Paneled Room, teachers display unbalanced designs and discuss how to add to the designs to create balance.
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- The expressions in the figures of Georges de La Tour’s The Musicians’ Brawl are priceless!
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- Studying expressions in works of art will help students to create their expressive portraits.
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- Third and fourth grade teachers found the perfect work for addressing their “Let’s Learn” theme—a portrait of a prince by Jan Lievens.
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- After discussing a work of art depicting a student who is learning, students can create their own pictures of a memory when they learned something.
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- After a week of tours, talks, and seminars, teachers get rewarded with free books and reproductions.
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- Teachers from 42nd Street Elementary School pause for a picture with Theresa Sotto after five intensive, but rewarding days.
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