You can’t squeeze everything in, but make every minute count and help students focus on making connections with the art world. The Modern Art Warm-Up bell ringer includes 36-weeks of warm-ups in 77 pages. It covers art from 19th Century Romanticism to Post-Modernism. Highlights from the Modern Art History Warm-Up include an Ancient Art Timeline, …
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How do you make every minute count? Starting class with a warm-up can help students switch gears and begin thinking of art. Have a prompt projected on a screen before each class. As students file in, they begin their warm-up. This allows for the teacher to take roll and help with a few student situations. …
What do you do in the first 5 minutes of class? Make every minute count by providing a warm-up every day of the school year! The Ancient Art Warm-Up bell ringer includes 180 days of warm-ups in 75 pages. It covers art from 30,000 B.C. to Neoclassicism. Highlights from the Ancient Art History Warm-Up include …
Spider artwork? Yes! Along with the fall season, spiders are a great theme to explore. Teach this lesson with Yayoi Kusama’s pumpkins as a juxtaposition of female artists’ childhood dreams of becoming artists and how they each pursued their dreams. These two lessons – Kusama and Bourgeouis’, back-to-back can be taught in two 50-minute class …
Should holiday crafts count as art? Celebrating traditions and holidays is fun, but should educational time be used to do so? I’ve felt that holiday projects can be done at home; art education is another level of teaching and shouldn’t be used for crafts. I recently read, “When art is relegated to creating stereotypical holiday …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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