How do help students look closer at artwork? Observing art is a skill that can be taught through practice. This lesson – Sound of Art – helps students focus on the sounds that lay in artwork and challenges them to recreate the sounds. Student creativity flourishes as they collaborate with others and find clues left …
Posts from: September 2023
How do you engage young students in movement while making art? There’s no better way than for them to explore with their bodies creating Pendwall drawings. A Pendwall drawing is a series of drawings in which you use both sides of your body and through movement create art. I learned about the artist Tony Orrico …
Helping children draw the other half of a drawing increases their skills to observe and strengthen hand-eye coordination. For younger students, books like Double Draw – have mirror-image drawings, allowing students to finish the fun pictures. Student Tips LEFTIES – For left-handed children, turn the book upside down. The coil binding will get in their way while they …
LEARNING Learning is…an “incremental discovery of successful levels of description—a kind of constructive representation building operation” (Marshall, 2005, p. 231). “ART is a form of inquiry with some processes and goals that are similar to those of other areas of study” (Marshall, 2010, p. 14). “If the aim of education is to fully activate the …
Classroom behavior modeling is key to helping students follow your expectations and instructions. You can have fun with each time you use TEMPO in your demonstrations. I like to talk through why I am not doing something or the outcome if I were to proceed. This helps students understand more clearly the words you are …
Labeling classes and teachers can feel overwhelming. You can mark two ways: assigning class codes that don’t matter who the teacher is or adding a teacher’s name. Either way, I like to have two forms of teacher labels for storing projects we’re still working on labeling artwork on the drying racks and for clipping lesson …
How do you begin teaching art? Do you have a starter? I used to feel swarmed by student questions without a warm-up. A daily warm-up sets the routine and order for my class. It allows me to greet everyone at the door as they enter the classroom, take roll promptly, and help with any emergency …
The Benefits of Early Exposure to ArtWhat happens when a child does not have art exposure? Is it necessary to invest in young children’s art education? Isenberg and Jalongo (2016) found that “Exposure to the arts in childhood was a stronger predictor of adult arts participation than education, gender, age, or income” (p. 290). The …
As students attempt to discuss and write about their artwork, this poster can assist them in describing what they’ve created or are critiquing. Hang it somewhere they can refer to as they write their artist statements, project reflections, and portfolio reviews. Download the grey and blue background Descriptive Art Words 24×26 Posters Here.
Need a simple way to make labels? Get to know Avery.com. It will save you time and is easy to use. Familiarize yourself with the process here. Purpose of Adding Labels With most lessons BrightArtLessons.com, you’ll find the Avery pdf file in a 5160 template ready to print. I like to add stickers on the …