tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71146921246978744682024-03-11T11:10:58.701-04:00Thomas Elementary ArtBehold the magic of the elementary art classroom. This blog is intended as a venue for parents and students to check out what is going on in the art room at Thomas Elementary. Also, possibly more importantly, it is a place for other educators to find free art lesson plans and share ideas. Art, art education, art classroom, bottle cap, mural, elementary art blog, painting, ceramics, fun, awesome, interesting.Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.comBlogger305125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-20137846792397153442018-03-15T15:43:00.002-04:002018-03-15T15:43:21.265-04:00Ask the Art Teacher<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recently had the honor of being interviewed by Mark Rode, the man behind the IG account @oxbow_creek_elementary_art Mark has a new blog called <a href="http://asktheartteacher.com/" target="_blank">"Ask the Art Teacher" </a>dedicated to teaching tips and getting to know art teachers through interviews. I was his second interview for the site. It's a great website and will be an outstanding resource as it grows. <a href="https://www.asktheartteacher.com/home/2018/3/14/zach-stoller" target="_blank">Check out my interview here!</a></span><br />
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<br />Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-31029573023432294922018-02-14T13:38:00.000-05:002018-02-14T13:38:35.296-05:003D Printed Architecture<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The blogging community is a wonderful source for ideas. It's one of the reasons I started blogging in the first place. Through reading blogs, I found many ideas that I adapted to teach in my classroom. I started the blog as a way to share my students' work as well as a way to return the favor in terms of putting new ideas out there. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's rare, but I've found myself in a position that I haven't been in before in my teaching career. Having a 3D printer in the classroom is still pretty uncommon. Having a 3D printer in the art room is apparently far more uncommon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I first started using the 3D printer with my 4th and 5th grade students last year, I was also new to the technology. I wanted to use the project to see what students were capable of and how they would adapt to creating art in an entirely new way. Essentially, I allowed students to make pretty much any original creation they wanted. There were some absolutely beautiful designs, but there were many students who didn't do well with complete freedom and wound up never really grabbing onto a solid idea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I knew that for year two of using the 3D printer, I wanted to come up with a lesson that provided a solid framework while still allowing for plenty of creative freedom. This is when I found that this kind of technology is still in its infancy in the art room. There are "lesson plans" around that use 3D printing, but most were either far too simple, far too complex, or didn't connect to my curriculum in any way. I chose instead to start from scratch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For 5th grade, I chose to take something that several students had been successful with last year- buildings. I came across a 3D printed city as I was looking for examples of printed architecture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My students studied various styles of architecture and came up with the types of structures found in towns and cities. Each student designed their own building on paper before moving on to work digitally. I have used an online program called <a href="http://www.tinkercad.com/" target="_blank">Tinkercad</a> both years I've worked with 3D printing, and I've found that it's very user friendly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have five 5th grade classes and I'm currently finished printing the work from three of them. The 3D printer is constantly running this time of year because each building takes 2-3 hours to print. I'm so excited for the finished city that I went out and bought some black foam core board and tested out a layout with about 50 of the buildings that have been printed. The finished city will be presented at the art show in April and I can't wait to see how it turns out!<br />
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Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-42750375067211709532017-02-15T18:40:00.001-05:002017-02-15T18:41:07.336-05:003D Prints!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can safely say that 3D printing has been a hit. I have learned so much throughout the time it took to teach and print all of my 250 4th and 5th grade students. I started out working with 5th grade and changed how I taught by the time I started 4th grade simply because I learned so much about the process by teaching and printing 5th grade work. Simple things that I hadn't even considered wound up creating fairly major printing errors. Other things that I thought would be problematic wound up being fine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Printing is what takes the most time. I've been printing pretty much non-stop since winter break. I've completely finished printing my 5th grade work and I'm a little more than 3/5 of the way through 4th grade. The printing should be finished next week! I'm able to print 4-5 designs at a time. I start the printer right when I get to school in the morning and I'm usually able to get two sets per day. The up side is that the printer makes all kinds of futuristic sounds and I can pretend I'm in the Jetsons! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Obviously I'll be using the printer more in the future. I'm working with our gifted intervention specialist to have students create more intricate designs to print and send to our sister school in China. Next year, I'm thinking about more specific lesson ideas to use. I really like the idea of using industrial design and the design process as the basis of a lesson. Students could create designs that would be solutions to a problem they encounter in life. Who knows? The options are endless. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last year, I did some fundraising and wrote a grant in order to buy a 3D printer. My 3D dreams came true and I was able to purchase an Ultimaker 2+. I wound up ordering it last spring, but I didn't plan to use it until this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prior to buying the printer, I hadn't ever used one before. I don't think I had ever seen one other than online pictures. A colleague had purchased one and raved about using it with students. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After I got the printer, I immediately started learning how to use it and figure what it is capable of. 3D printers use a specific type of 3D image file in order to produce the print. Special slicing software takes a 3D image and divides it into hundreds of individual layers that the printer prints. There were several preloaded files that I did test prints with, but I quickly found sites like <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/" target="_blank">thingiverse.com</a> that are 3D community sites in which files are available for download and there is plenty of information about printing. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhonUeu_Szxu9SrneBmObxw0KG-OTdQMXSbK5_S2Xj3Tq4ZrgFk58ZKBe-vyh_faxfIiSHeYvmXYliTpoCG69fD70wvkxhOOV5V4ArEeZ64BYQsZOcuRjEciI_k4ddT9IoQpIBHYW36x4/s1600/Unknown.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhonUeu_Szxu9SrneBmObxw0KG-OTdQMXSbK5_S2Xj3Tq4ZrgFk58ZKBe-vyh_faxfIiSHeYvmXYliTpoCG69fD70wvkxhOOV5V4ArEeZ64BYQsZOcuRjEciI_k4ddT9IoQpIBHYW36x4/s400/Unknown.png" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to learning the hardware, there are various types of software that are available for 3D printers. I'm using a web-based program called <a href="http://tinkercad.com/" target="_blank">Tinkercad</a>. It is free to sign up and is pretty easy for students to learn. They have a whole series of tutorials that I used to learn the software. I wound up setting up 30 different accounts that my students share. I have a few students in each class who have set up their own accounts at home as well. The best part about Tinkercad being web-based is that students are able to access it from home if they really want to put extra time into their work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You might be asking yourself why I would put a 3D printer in an elementary art room. In my opinion, it's just another tool to be creative with. Students still use creativity to come up with their own designs. The computer just becomes another form of media. I have about 250 4th and 5th graders that are currently working on laptops in order to create their designs. Touching on my last post about choice, I set up three loose categories that students can work within. Students choose between creating dream houses/buildings, transportation, or figurines. The open choice stumped a few students, but the majority have been able to come up with pretty solid ideas to build off of. We started with a day of sketching, then did a training day with Tinkercad. I'm giving each class 4-5 additional classes to work on their projects before they download the 3D files and send them to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This project has been a really nice change of pace in so many ways. It's nice to having something so different going on in my classroom. Using Tinkercad is new and exciting for the students, so they are incredibly engaged in what they are doing. It has also given students another way to excel in my classroom. Some students who may not be the most artistic kids in the class have really taken off with this project because it uses an entirely different skill set than traditional art making. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do any of you have a 3D printer? I'm super interested in hearing about projects that you've come up with to use it. It's truly an amazing technology and I couldn't be more excited to have it in my classroom. </span></div>
Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-87121110817034415572016-10-25T08:14:00.001-04:002016-10-25T08:14:34.633-04:00Thoughts About Change<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Change. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's something I've been thinking about quite a bit lately. I feel like I do a pretty good job as an art educator, but I'm intrigued by some new (or not so new) ideas that I've come across lately. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I suppose I should start by explaining my teaching style and background. Art has always been "my thing." I graduated from Columbus College of Art & Design and went directly into the Master's program for art education at The Ohio State University. My education has greatly influenced my style. Technique and technical skills were often at the heart of my own arts education. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I develop lesson plans for my students, I use art, literature, and techniques as the basis for most of the projects I create. For example, a very popular lesson that I've posted about in the past is my totem pole project. The heart of the project is stylization. Students discuss and visually dissect culturally accurate examples of Pacific Northwest Native Americans. Students take quite a bit of time to develop good drawings of an animal of their choice in order to make it stylistically match the artwork we are studying. The final version of the project is a beautiful and often quite intricate collage of construction paper. Because we spend so much time developing drawings and studying art, this is an extremely successful project. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enter meetings with my elementary art colleagues. My district currently has 12 elementary buildings and the same number of elementary art teachers. Of the 12 of us, three run choice based classrooms. I'm intrigued by the idea of choice based art because I can see that students of those three teachers are doing work that is more personally meaningful. There is often deeper thought in the student work and I like the flow of work from one project to the next. I have added quite a bit of choice into my projects, but there is always a lesson plan that the student choice fits into. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My biggest struggle with purely choice based instruction is the actual artwork. Since instruction time of actual techniques is so limited, I see so many pieces of artwork that have great ideas, but poor execution or craftsmanship. I know many of my lessons are outcome based. There is a lot of good thinking and creativity that go into the lessons, but the goal is ultimately to provide learning experiences for students that provide a balance of technical skills and meaningful thinking and creativity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At my latest elementary art meeting, we met in the room of Mr. Callicotte, a colleague who secured funding to completely redesign his classroom. In was, in one word, stunning. He was moving toward choice based learning, but realized that different students have different learning preferences and needs. He did an activity that resulted in students figuring out what kind of environment resulted in their best work. The design of the room was such that it accommodated learning needs and provided space for different media as well as gathering space for the whole class to learn together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel like I'm at a crossroads for my teaching style. I want to make some changes to my space. I want to make some changes to my style in order to provide considerably more choice while still maintaining the quality of the finished art. Is there a name for this style? Maybe I'm being innovative and coming up with the missing link between traditional teaching and full choice. Probably not. I'm sure some of you are already doing this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do any of you do anything similar? What are your successes and struggles? I can't wait to hear. </span><br />
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Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-45352951325400927922016-09-22T15:11:00.001-04:002016-09-22T15:11:18.954-04:00Back to school....now?!?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some bloggers write all summer long. Good for you if you're one of those all-stars! Summer is definitely a break from blogging for me. My school district started the year on August 15th. You may have noticed that I haven't posted since then. Is it because my summer lasted a little longer this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do I know some sort of secret loophole embedded deep in my contract that allowed me to spend more time at the pool while the rest of the staff was busy teaching? Well, kind of. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That part of the contract would deal with paternity leave. My wife and I welcomed our second daughter into the world on August 10th. Her name is Graylie and she's pretty awesome. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was lucky enough to be able to spend the first month of school at home to help out with the new addition to my family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course that means that I had to write a mess of sub plans and trust someone else to start the year for me. That alone was no easy task. All in all, I really enjoyed the extra family time and I know my wife appreciated the help. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I'm back to school. I'm one week in and getting back into the swing of things. New posts will be coming soon. There are a lot of changes this year with the addition of traveling related arts teachers, new projects, new technology, and continued creative learning. I'm looking forward to a great year! </span>Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-37700687358150609092016-06-14T10:46:00.000-04:002016-06-14T10:46:01.360-04:003rd Grade Terra Cotta Warriors<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was lucky enough to post a student teacher again this year. It was my fourth time in the last five years and it went extremely well. Based simply when student teachers are placed in my building, I often will have them work with students on a couple of projects that will wind up in the art show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Miss Christie Paul, who was from The Ohio State University, worked with my students for a total of seven weeks. She had written this clay lesson previous to working with my students and I told her it was too cool not to use. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Miss Paul led discussions about the Terra Cotta warriors found in China. Students learned that each one is different and the sculptures represented many different types of people, not just warriors. Each student first drew his or her own warrior before building it out of clay. The clay went together piece by piece over the course of about three classes and was put together using scoring and a few drops of water. Some details were carved in after the sculpture was finished. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The warriors were bisque fired, then they needed some paint. We used a two step process that works very well for aging sculptures. Students first painted the entire piece with a mix of acrylic paints that gave it the basic warm light brown color. After that layer was dry, students went over the whole sculpture again with a wash of darker brown paint. This was almost immediately wiped off. The cool part of this technique is that the wash will fill into details and cracks which really brings out the smaller, more intricate elements of the sculpture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Overall, this lesson turned out very well. I'm very seriously considering using it again next year! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This first project is a 5th grade sgraffito mug lesson. Slab mugs topped with black underglaze. Sgraffito done with an underwater motif. Pretty rad. My example is the first image. </span><br />
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5th grade Keith Haring paintings inspired by what is important to each student. Neon paint- oh, yeah!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anthropomorphic animals by third grade. This project was clear at the end of the year and it was begging for more time. I'll do it a little differently next year. They still turned out really cool. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, a fan favorite. 4th grade animal reduction prints. This rock every single year. No exception this year. </span><br />
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Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-40275448641342425882016-06-06T10:39:00.002-04:002016-06-06T10:39:29.931-04:00First Grade Clay Penguins<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think Instagram has surpassed Pinterest in usefulness for me. Since Pinterest keeps adding pins of things THEY think will be interesting to me and things that THEY think I'll want to buy, half my feed is essentially junk. Conversely, there are a lot of art teachers who post relevant, real life lessons, ideas, and observations on Instagram daily. I've gotten a good amount of new lesson ideas this year from Instagram and I've had great success with them. If you want frequent updates from my classroom, follow me on Instagram @thomas_elementary_art</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One Instagram post by another teacher (@mrsallainart) inspired this new first grade clay lesson. I always base my first grade ceramics project on the pinch pot. This project included a wide, shallow pinch pot as well as a simple penguin. Penguin details (wings & beak) were added by simply smoothing clay together. The penguins were scored to attach to the base. The sculpture portion was pretty fun and not too difficult for my first graders, but the killer part of the lesson was the ice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I bisque fired the penguins after they had been sculpted. I then added several blue decorative glass marble type things to the base of each penguin. I got the glass from the dollar store. They're not perfectly round, but I would imagine real marbles or even small pieces of other types of glass would work just fine. I re-fired at cone 05 and achieved this sweet ice effect. The glass melted very nicely. I just recommend that you put plenty of glass in. I wound up adding more glass and re-firing the first set that I tried because they needed more glass to cover the bottom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This project was a big hit with the first graders and everyone up through 5th grade was super jealous that they didn't get to make one. I guess that's one way of knowing a lesson was successful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">About this time last year, I scheduled my art show with an outside company called Artomé. My building keeps growing right along with my student population. Seriously. We're putting on our second addition as I'm sitting here typing this. I decided to use Artomé to try to make the art show a bit easier. It definitely worked, but more to come with that in a later post. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another benefit of using Artomé is that it's also a fundraiser. That aspect became a bit of a conundrum. My yearly budget, though it has declined as I have gotten more students, is sufficient. I'm very lucky. I was thinking that whatever money I would raise through the art show could go toward a larger piece of equipment. What would it be, though? A printing press? No, one press for a class of 30+ doesn't make sense. A glass kiln? No. Not necessary. What could I possibly get? I then had that aha moment. A 3D printer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then came the next problem. 3D printers cost money- a lot of money. I hoped to raise $500-600 at my art show, but the printer I had my eye on cost quite a bit more than that. I researched grants and came across one that I applied for and got. I presented to PTO. They were pumped up about it and granted my request for funds. I then had my art show and raised nearly $900. All of my work and preparation paid off. I bought my printer- the Ultimaker 2+ (at a 10% educator discount!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm using some spare time this spring learning how to use it. It's pretty easy to get running, actually. Even though I hadn't ever even seen a 3D printer in person, I had it running 30 minutes after it was out of the box. I've been doing a series of test prints recently. Some are things that were pre-loaded on the memory card, some are my designs, and some are files from online sources. I'm wrapping my head around what the printer can do so I can design curriculum around it for next year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My plan is to use it with my 4th and 5th grade students next year. There is a free online program called Tinkercad that is pretty intuitive to use. A colleague of mine even uses it with 1st graders. I'm currently brainstorming ideas to use for lessons. Ideally, I'd like to develop something that will display well together. For example, my colleague built upon the idea of an imaginary world. One grade level designed buildings, another did public art, etc. You get the idea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Have any of you worked with a 3D printer in your classroom before? What have you done with it? I'm super excited to see it fully in action next year! </span>Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-16273680976499603692016-05-10T11:38:00.001-04:002016-05-10T11:38:27.111-04:00Neglect<div class="vk_ans" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large !important; margin-bottom: 0px;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: x-small;">So....yeah. It's been a while. Two and a half months. Ooops. Life has been a little intense during that time. Nothing bad, just extremely busy. In the same week I had my school art show and also moved. Life took precedent over blogging. I've got some cool projects to share in the coming weeks including the acquisition of a 3D printer. For more frequent updates, follow me on Instagram. I try to post most school days @thomas_elementary_art</span></span></div>
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Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-24329016927682456082016-02-26T15:02:00.001-05:002016-02-26T15:11:17.313-05:002nd Grade Secret Code Collage<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you guys know Hope Hunter Knight from <a href="http://dolvinartknight.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mrs. Knight's Smartest Artists</a>? Other than commenting on blogs and on Instagram, I don't know her a bit. I feel like our philosophies about art ed are very similar. We've shared several lesson ideas and this one is totally <strike>ripped off</strike> inspired by her <a href="http://dolvinartknight.blogspot.com/2014/09/code-collage-auguste-herbin-grade-2.html" target="_blank">original post</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the second year I've done this lesson with my 2nd graders and I decided it was going to be one of our art show projects this year. The whole project is inspired by a French artist by the name of Auguste Herbin. I know a lot of artists, but he was not one of them when I came across Hope's post. I immediately knew the project would be a winner, though. Essentially, Herbin created his own "secret code" alphabet called Alphabet Plastique. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have my students each come up with a title consisting of one or two words. They devise a simple geometric code for each letter in their title. The codes will eventually be made out of construction paper, so they can't be too crazy complex. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When my students did this last year, I tried to have them plan out the final version of their work in a way that didn't leave any blank space. It got a little too intense. This year, I simply gave students various rectangles of card stock and let them figure out how to best fill their paper. If there was negative space left, it wasn't a big deal. I wound up with better results and fewer headaches. Most kids filled up their page anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm blown away by the work my students create. I have to stop and remind myself that they were made by kids who are only 7 or 8. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I usually post my lesson plans, but I'm not going to post here because the lesson really isn't mine to post. You can see more details over at Mrs. Knight's blog. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-30860732943110986522016-02-18T10:27:00.000-05:002016-02-18T10:27:27.728-05:005th Grade Plush Creations<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who knew that kids would absolutely love sewing? Oh, that's right. I've taught this lesson several times. I knew that. That's why I keep teaching it. I love it when a tough 5th grade boy comes up to ask if his stitching is neat enough. That will never get old. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I ran this lesson pretty similar to how I've done it in the past, but allowed a little more freedom this year. Originally, students made monsters. This year I told them they could make anything. The results, as usual, were really nice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There isn't a whole lot of technical expertise that is required for this project. That's great for me because my crowning achievement in sewing was making a pair of boxer shorts in 8th grade home economics class. It's simple enough that every student is more than capable of making something cool, but students who have experience with sewing can really run with it and make some cool stuff. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This guy is named Mr. Pillow. It was originally<br />going to be an iPad, but I like how my student<br />reworked his idea to make it more successful. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My biggest suggestion with the project is making sure that students work with large enough pieces of fabric. I purchased 9x12 sheets of felt. Each student gets two, so the final piece winds up being fairly large. I originally had students use only one piece of felt, so the work was smaller and a little more difficult to work with. I keep all of the fabric scraps throughout the project and students use those for details to glue on with fabric glue once their work has been sewn and stuffed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This project is definitely in line with my idea of challenging 5th graders with materials as opposed to overly technical and skill based lessons. I really think it keeps a bigger percentage of students engaged and truly enjoying what they are doing in the art room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em;">Enter Artomé. I had been contacted by art show companies in the past, but I was always a little suspicious. I would furrow my brow and think to myself, "I don't have the budget to pay a company to do what I can do for free." I got some information from Artomé and I realized that I could streamline the entire art show by using them. After talking to some colleagues who used Artomé last year and they were please with the results. I decided to give them a shot. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Overall, I believe using Artomé will be a good move. They frame every piece of student work - 750 for me this year. It's free. In fact, I'll make some money from the show. I had two concerns. All of the frames are the same size. That means that all of the 2D artwork at my show will be 9x12. Ideally, parents will buy the framed work and I'll earn some money for the art room, so the artwork should be something that will appeal to parents. Hmmmm.... Well, that's a bit of a challenge. Most of my lessons are larger. It has been a challenge to come up with lessons that </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">allow for a fair amount of student choice, but still conform to the required size. I also teach lessons that don't necessarily produce "pretty art." We explore science, history, and math. I design lessons to help students learn about art and the world, not specifically so they can have something pretty to take home. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">This is a new lesson that I decided to use for an art show project this year. It's based on the work of Jasper Johns. I really liked how it allows for some messiness, but the work still comes out super cool. I would include the lesson plan, but I borrowed it from </span><a href="http://artiswhatiteach.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-12-09T16:39:00-08:00&max-results=7" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;" target="_blank">For the Love of Art</a></span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and I don't want to take credit for it. It's super simple. Take a page and have students carefully fold it in half four times. When they unfold it, they will have 16 rectangles. Students write their names in oil pastels as large as they can in each box. I found that using only capital letters worked best. Students then took a couple of classes to paint the areas around the letters, trying to loosely conform to the shape of the original rectangular fold marks. It worked perfectly for my needs and it is something that I'll definitely consider using again.</span></span></span></span></h1>
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Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-9032526617754836322016-01-19T16:03:00.001-05:002016-01-19T16:04:15.066-05:00Vote!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjprAQDFTiwe_DkCKHfd_XPwFRtgosx5UwLwO7vtVibZS_Bf64gnb2Lk5C1mw7caHV-ph_RtZQhutKuH3gplW3UOKHR4eKOAACdRy_ZfJMSsgZBilHCpF5iTjRx0U0AY02TI28JdBoDuSM/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-01-19+at+3.58.48+PM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjprAQDFTiwe_DkCKHfd_XPwFRtgosx5UwLwO7vtVibZS_Bf64gnb2Lk5C1mw7caHV-ph_RtZQhutKuH3gplW3UOKHR4eKOAACdRy_ZfJMSsgZBilHCpF5iTjRx0U0AY02TI28JdBoDuSM/s640/Screen+Shot+2016-01-19+at+3.58.48+PM.png" width="640" /></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alright, folks. It's that time of the year again. Do your civic duty and <a href="http://www.theartofed.com/blog-of-the-year/2015-2/" target="_blank">vote for your favorite blog over at The Art of Ed</a>. Hopefully mine is one of them. I'm in the elementary category. There are a lot of wonderful blogs listed. It's always a time of the year when I find new blogs that I haven't ever seen before. Good luck to all of the finalists!</span>Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-26021971183897912932016-01-13T08:04:00.001-05:002016-01-13T08:04:34.093-05:00Creativity Time<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm slowly changing the way I teach. Aren't we all? Through blogs, PD (I mean PD that I seek out. Not that soul-deadening garbage we all sit through at school.), and speaking with colleagues, I try to keep up to date and make changes in my teaching that reflect what I feel is best for my students. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Basically, there are three columns on a handout. Kids pick one part from each column in order to create a movie name. They then have about 30 minutes to illustrate a poster for that movie. The movie titles can be pretty wacky and that's half the fun. It really gets kids thinking about how to best represent the title. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm working to do more things like this. I have a lot more ideas and plenty of school year to go. Is anyone else doing something similar? Share! </span>Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-67327389358679441502016-01-12T09:19:00.000-05:002016-01-12T10:26:06.653-05:00Guest Post - Margaret Orr: Animator<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is my delight to introduce a guest writer for my blog today. I was recently contacted by <a href="http://margaret-orr.com/" target="_blank">Margaret Orr,</a> an animator and filmmaker from Bloomington, Indiana whose short films have been featured in film festivals around the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margaret is working to raise funds in order to work with early primary grade students in Chicago Public Schools on a very innovative animation project. As you find out by reading below, Margaret has a passion for animation and truly wishes that all age levels get to experience the magic of creating their own animation project. <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/657827204/scribble" target="_blank">Click here to visit her Kickstarter page.</a></span></div>
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Animation, in particular, requires a level of patience that young children simply
have not yet developed. As a result, young children are rarely exposed to this art
form, and often miss out on its lessons.
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to students when working at summer camps as a college student. In my
experience, once students reach about the age of 10, they really appreciate and
are sufficiently motivated by animation. They're willing to sit down and draw for
hours, sometimes making several hundred individual drawings to tell their stories.
But younger students, especially those aged 6-8, tend to get extremely excited
about the idea of making a movie, but don't have the patience to express
themselves one frame at a time.
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">An answer to this problem comes from the history of animation, and is the
inspiration for a project I am working on called </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Scribble</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. Long before Disney,
back when film was brand new, innovative artists realized that they could scratch
into the emulsion of film stock to draw pictures on film. We’re doing something a
little different, but the principle is the same. By drawing onto “clear leader film”
(which is a fancy way of saying clear plastic film) the students can create
movement quickly in an accessible way. The students can use a wide variety of
techniques to animate, depending on their interest levels, patience, and skill. For
instance, they can use the film like a canvas and draw across it without concern
for where each individual frame is, resulting in an abstract and disjointed
animation. Or they can pay closer attention to where the frames are and actually
create movement from frame to frame. They can use a wide variety of materials
to create the film, including sharpie markers, paint, stamps, allowing for a wide
variety of aesthetics and creative choices.
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classroom? There’s an unlimited number of ways to go about this. For </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Scribble</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">,
we’re using 35 mm clear leader film, chosen because it’s thicker than 16 mm,
and thus a little easier for first-graders to use. But if you’re working with older
children 16 mm film will work just as well and has the added benefit of being less
expensive. Set up is fairly easy. We tape brown paper on the tables, use
masking tape to tape the leader film onto the paper, and mark the paper with
each frame interval (for 35 mm film there is one frame for every four sprocket
holes). The students draw on the film with sharpie markers. I use a film-to-digital
converter to digitize the artwork and edit it into a film, but you could also
purchase a projector and screen the film directly.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Out students will have the opportunity to work with professional artists to
create a film that will play at film festivals. We’re working with an incredibly
talented composer, Aaron Marshall, to create music for the film. I have created </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">four films over the last four years, all of which have played at international film
festivals, so I have extensive experience with the festival circuit. We want the
kids to be able to see their work on a big screen, with a packed audience to
applaud when their names roll across the screen at the end. This project is as
much about inspiring the next generation of filmmakers as it is about creating a
film.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Scribble </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">on <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/657827204/scribble" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a>. We’ll be using funds raised to purchase materials (film,
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Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-78058673694584388772016-01-06T09:58:00.000-05:002016-01-06T09:59:00.177-05:003rd Grade Charley Harper Inspired Cardinals<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stop! Harper time! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wow. That was super lame. It did make me chuckle, though. It's also true. Right before winter break is when I typically have my 3rd graders study the work of Charley Harper. The outcome is a lesson that forces students to think and create art in a new way. It also looks pretty wintery and makes for a great display.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This lesson is all about Charley Harper, an artist who lived in Ohio the majority of his life. If you're familiar with his work, you know that he uses flat, graphic shapes to create mainly images of wildlife. As my school is in Ohio, I have students all make cardinals. I don't like limiting a project that much, but it works out in this case for a couple of reasons. First, there are limitless ways to create a cardinal out of flat, graphic shapes. No two students create identical cardinals. It also gives me the opportunity to display quite a few reference pictures, so students can get a really good grasp on what they are creating. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have students start with about 30 minutes of small sketches. I usually have students draw quite a bit before they begin a final project and it results in more thoughtful work. Students then select their favorite sketch and use construction paper to recreate it. They then create a background. More choice is included in making the background. I demonstrate how to make trees (using a dry brush technique), how to make snowflakes (using white paint and the handle of a brush), snow drifts, berries, and bird footprints. Students chose to use any or all of those ideas to make their own background. As has been the case before, the results of this lesson are super successful. </span><br />
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<br />Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-54688268163155918772015-12-21T16:03:00.002-05:002015-12-21T16:21:30.324-05:004th Grade Recycled CD Snowflakes<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another Ohio winter, another way to incorporate more recycling into my curriculum. If you've followed my blog for any amount of time, you'll know I'm pretty opposed to holiday themed projects. Holiday crafts can happen in the regular classroom. We learn about art in my room. This lesson revolves around a big part of winter- snowflakes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About 5 years ago, a box of old software CDs was dumped in my room. You know, somebody has something that they don't really want to throw away, so they give it to the art teacher. "I had these and I thought of you!" they say. Inwardly, I'm figuring out where I can store these newly found "treasures" or how I can surreptitiously get rid of them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Luckily, I was able to figure out something to do with the CDs. Good thing, too. I've got enough to last me into the next decade. I had previously done a paper mosaic snowflake geometry project with my 4th graders. Looking back, it was pretty terrible. I suppose I could have switched a few things around and improved it, but I came up with this instead. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Students study mosaic artwork as well as the natural geometry of snowflakes. I show them how to fold and cut a six sided snowflake. After that, students simply mount the snowflake on either a gold or silver poster board, trim the board, and add CD shards. The best snowflakes tend to be the ones in which students carefully match the shape of CD pieces to the design of the snowflake. The outcome can be extraordinarily beautiful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">**Helpful hint- no amount of pounding on a CD with a hammer will break a CD into little pieces. I use my paper cutter to slice the CDs into strips which easily break apart into smaller pieces for students to use. </span><br />
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<br />Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-42881563365099433172015-12-08T11:37:00.000-05:002015-12-21T15:13:54.412-05:00Nonobjective Tint Paintings by 4th Grade<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I try to vary my lesson plans for students. 4th grade recently finished their totem pole project. It's pretty intense and has a high degree of difficulty. This painting lesson provides a nice change of pace for my students. It's much more open and doesn't have guidelines that are quite as rigid. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the second year I have taught this project. It's very straightforward. We talk about what nonobjective art is and we look at several examples. I then challenge students to create their own compositions using whatever types of shapes and lines they want. They try to create interest by using overlapping shapes as well as designing areas that are more complex. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since we are learning about tints, obviously students get to mix paints to create their tints. This is the absolute highlight of the lesson for most students. Nothing is more exciting than busting out the mixing trays. I ask students to select two main colors (in addition to white) to use the for their paintings. Limiting the color really enhances the overall design of the paintings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I get some really killer detail work out of my students on this project. I bought a set of #2 bright brushes. They are flats that have shorter bristles. They are wonderful for detail. They allow students to accurately paint the small overlapping shapes in their work. The work is finished by students choosing either black paint or crayon to go over all of their original drawing. Again, this is to bring out the original design. You know how it can get a little lost during the painting process. I used to have students do this with Sharpies, but Sharpie doesn't particularly like tempera paint. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enjoy these amazing examples from this project!</span><br />
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I know some people who go full choice in their art rooms. Part of me really likes the idea of a choice-based art room, but a larger part thinks that kids really benefit from some guidelines in a project. Just personal preference. I've been working on ways of incorporating more choice within the framework of my projects. I think this lesson gives students a lot of freedom to display their creativity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Essentially, we look at all kinds of older maps and talk about how they are different than current maps. Hint- they are WAY cooler. They are as much art as they are cartography. Oh, that's another cool part of this project. I get to say "cartography" and "cartographer" all the time. It makes me happy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Students then get to design their own map of a fictional place. I let students have pretty much complete freedom in the theme of their maps. Some choose to create maps of video game worlds, some map out locations from a favorite book or tv show, and others just completely freestyle. I ask that they include both water and land, a title, a compass rose, and a map key. Additionally, I ask them to include at least six landforms. Parts of maps are part of the 3rd grade social studies curriculum in Ohio and landforms are in the curriculum for 4th grade. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I really like the results I get out of the project. It's fun to sit and study the small details that students put into their work. I have learned a couple of things over the years to make the project run a little smoother. Liquid watercolor works very well for painting the water. It's easy to prep and I'm not constantly replacing the blue in my watercolor trays. It's also a lot more consistent in terms of color. I also have students add color to map details with colored pencils. It's just a lot neater than the results I got the first year with watercolor. </span><br />
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<br />Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-82150721609994835802015-11-17T07:04:00.000-05:002015-11-17T07:04:00.040-05:00Hundertwasser Inspired Abstract Tree Sculptures by 2nd Grade<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I like to set goals for myself for each school year. They are usually based around what I'm going to teach in a given year. This year, my goal is to write a sculpture lesson plan for each grade level. I have really nice display shelving that I fear goes unused for much of the year simply because of the fact that I like to save most of my ceramic work for the art show in the spring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This lesson is the first part of my goal coming to fruition. The basic idea came from <a href="http://manualescanigo.blogspot.com/2009/10/el-arbol-de-kandinsky.html" target="_blank">a blogger</a> I found through Pinterest. I adapted the artwork that her students created and re-worked the artist inspiration to match some other ideas that were rumbling around in my head. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The artist I used to inspire the lesson is the multi-talented Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. If you don't know this guy, look him up. He's a complete trip. I like his paintings, but his architecture is amazing. During class, we talked about his use of organic lines, bright colors, and his passion for environmentalism. We then created tree sculptures made almost entirely from recycled materials. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hundertwasser has many paintings featuring trees that look strikingly similar to lollipops We took the idea of lollipop trees and made trees with lollipop leaves. The trees were made from poster board scraps, newspaper, scrap construction paper, a little Modge Podge, and a bit of glue. We thought it was pretty funny that we were making recycled art trees out of paper that originally came from trees. I think we completed some sort of environmental circle with this lesson. Either way, it was a super successful lesson and a great learning experience for my 2nd graders!</span><br />
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<br />Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-43276404523892127762015-11-13T14:20:00.000-05:002015-11-13T14:24:27.237-05:005th Grade Personal Logos<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Most of the lessons in 5th grade revolve around careers in the art field. When I was in elementary school, I don't think that I truly understood that all artists weren't just professional fine artists. After graduating from art school, I now know how many careers relate directly to visual art. I want my students understand that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first project for 5th grade this year is based on the career of a graphic designer. Students were asked to design a logo that represents themselves. We really dove into a lot of professional examples and dissected them to figure out what makes a good logo work. We spent a lot of time on thumbnail sketches. A lot of time. Most students 20+ thumbnail sketches. After a couple rounds of peer review, students created two second drafts, then eventually made a large version of the final logo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I really like this project because it allows students to demonstrate their thinking throughout the entire design process. The final work is mounted along with the thumbnail sketch and second draft that most closely resemble the final logo. The final work turns out very nice and it allows me to get to know my students a little better. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the things I like best about this lesson is that it's hard. It's really hard for some kids. Good. The most difficult aspect of the lesson is drawing an animal in such a way that it looks like it has been carved into a totem pole. Negative space is essentially nonexistent. I tell my students that they need to use about 98% of their paper. It really forces students to entirely re-think the way they have drawn animals for their entire lives. It makes them learn!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been dealing with combined classes with 4th grade this year and I was initially concerned that it would negatively impact the quality of student work. For this project, it absolutely didn't. Students have produced more high level work this year than any previous year. The stress of teaching 34 kids at once has apparently paid off. Enjoy the work! </span></div>
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Zach Stollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03997415498724842479noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7114692124697874468.post-32768811893802169722015-10-20T08:34:00.002-04:002015-10-20T08:34:34.462-04:00Creative Play<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Creativity. One might think it's automatically a part of all art rooms. I don't agree. To me, creativity is tied closely with choice and critical thinking. In following many art ed blogs and Instagram feeds, I see plenty of lessons in which every child's art LOOKS THE SAME. To me, that doesn't teach creativity. I'm not entirely sure it teaches art. I apologize if this is reflective of your style of teaching. It's just not mine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over the summer, I attended the "Teaching for Creativity Institute" at the Columbus Museum of Art. As an educator, I've been studying creativity along with my elementary art colleagues in my district. I learned quite a bit at the institute, but I learned just as much simply being in the museum. CMA has done some major renovations and additions recently. One of the renovated areas was the kid's area of the museum. It was absolutely filled with items for creative play. This was something I wanted to include in my classroom this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I spent quite a bit of time researching different creative play toys. I wound up purchasing about eight different kinds of materials specifically for creative play. I started the year with only some plain wooden blocks. They were on my list to purchase, but another teacher wanted to get rid of them! Score! I explained to my classes that the blocks would be available to use for early finishers. I assumed they would go over with the younger kids, but I wondered if the older kids would be too cool for wooden blocks. Quite the opposite happened. Every single student wants to play with the blocks. The variety of creative uses for the blocks is astounding. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Open ended creative play is largely missing in schools today. Kids no longer get to just be kids. Creative play gives students the ability to make their own choices in what they make. They are only limited by their imagination. Since I introduced these creative play options, very few students choose to do free drawing if they finish early. I love seeing the enthusiasm for creativity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What do you do to allow creative play in your classroom? I'd love to know!</span><br />
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