Using Technology in Art Centers

Exploring Art Elements in Multicultural Units

Overview of Centers

❖ Each art element is explored in choice centers.

❖ Center themes based on art from each of the Olympic flag’s color continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas, Australia).

❖ Students fill out a passport (ArtPort) as they complete each center.

❖ I usually do the centers for two or three hours so students can do at least three of the five choices.

Use of technology in centers:

CDs, DVDsiPODs and earphones, speakers

Discovery Education videos, imagesStudent produced podcasts Imported podcasts

iMovie instructionsiMovie/Frame student productions

SmartBoard interactive games, toolsPaint programs, online plus KidPix, Pixie

Online resourcesClicker games

LINE DEFINESLooking at line as the basic art element

iPod centers/TV-DVD:Discovery Education video segments

YouTube segments

DVD on boom box

SmartBoard game "om onlineart source

African Mudcloth

❖ YouTube demos:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0eMjH6SM14

Calligraphy symbols of the Olympics

❖ Students review movies on IPod before painting

European drawing:daVinci as inventor

❖ Game on SmartBoard introduces invention drawings by daVinci

❖ Game found on internet

❖ Museums have excellent educational components

❖ National Gallery of Art has exceptional activities

Mandalas, AmericasLine designs starting at a center point

Use mirror feature in Pixie

Australia traditional painting with dots, dotted lines

❖ CD with Australian photos and music inspired these artworks

SHAPE UNITESFORM INSPIRES

❖ Three major units:

❖ Musical instruments incorporating shapes in decoration and structure Technology: iMovie production

❖ Masks and animal sculptures: Taking shapes into a three-dimensional form Technology: use Discovery Ed images

❖ Circles in many cultures Technology: Kaleidoscope software, KidPix, Pixie

Shapes and Forms in Musical Instruments

5th Grade Multi-Country Music Video

MasqueradeTravel to Italy and Venice: DE video segment

African masksWooden masks imitated in clay and plaster

SmartBoard Notebook 10Map of Africa used to learn countries. Students then

matched mask images from DE to country.

Picasso inspirationsHot/cold emotions based on African design

Modigliani elongation

Mask by Picasso

Inuit masksPaint from images found in DE collection as well as photos from the DIA; live podcasts from the DIA

Masks from recycled supplies

These were used with Frames to make movies

“Frames”Puppet

Productions--

A MuseumWalk

1) Students created mask or puppet on old CD2) Students took at least four digital photos, moving mouth, eye, browsto show comment on background artwork3) Students used “Frames” green screen to add audio, artwork

Shapes/Forms inspired by

Oaxaca, Shapiro, Miro

and Kandinsky

DE video clip on Oaxaca

Shapes: Beyond Circles

Study of paisley,fractals,

weaving rectangles

Paisley introduced with clicker

questions

Where did the “paisley” shape originate?

Shape to form relationship explored in National Gallery online activity

COLOR IGNITES

❖ Flowers and plants as the subject

❖ Color as the art element

❖ “All the Colors of the Earth” DE video to introduce color to younger students

SmartBoard Notebook 10 presentationon color used at one center

Teacher producedpodcast forinstruction,using studentartwork.

This podcast was shown on a large screen.Students then watched the enhanced student feature on

VanGogh before painting their complementary landscape or sti' life in Van Gogh’s style. Some students then produced their own podcasts using step by step digital photos of their work.

Student enhanced podcasts about artists:based on Art in Story by Marianne Saccardi

Garage band sounds as well as

nature sounds from

Soundboard

Students narrate podcasts on complementary colors as they paint like Van Gogh.

LIGHT ILLUMINATES❖ Exploring how artists use shadows

and light: DE video on science

❖ Research artists: Student podcasts

❖ Paint/draw in the style of the artist, demonstrating understanding of use of shadows and light

❖ Dress up as an artist/character in a painting to present findings

TEXTURE EXCITES

❖ Creatures: Fur, Feathers, and Fins

SPACE EXPANDS

❖ Art Happenings: Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude

❖ Bubbles, Enclosures, Mobiles

Angel Unit Inspired by European ART

Students viewed PowerPoint on angels inEuropean art. They came up with questions to be used in a Clicker Game the followingweek, for review of concepts.

Artwork Angels in glue glass andfabric dipped in thinned white glue

REcycled Art: Using junk, 100 ways to use a CDrom

Text

Younger grades workedin two or three centers.Line defined with leftoverbeads, yarn and felt.Shapes explored in “SnowGlobes” with CDs, felt, glitter,contact paper.

Go to ArtSonia: Southfield ChristianSchool to see lesson plans and artwork

How do you keep track of it?

❖ Delicious bookmarks

❖ DE my content for video clips and images

SouthfieldChristian.org❖ Learning Links

❖ ART section