I am an architect!
Day 1
This week we gave students this prompt:
Now that we’ve made our designs, us architects are moving forward, out of the office and headed for the job site! I want you all to put on your imaginary hard hats with me, remember that hard hats are what we wear to protect their heads while their working like helmets. Now that you have your imaginary hard hat on we are going to picture the job site. The job site is the location where we will construct our home. Now we are going to imagine ourselves at the job site so maybe your job site is a big grassy area with trees and a pond. Or maybe your job site is underwater with fish and coral. Your job site is wherever you want your dream home to be. Now that we have arrived at our own job sites let start building!
Students then began to build their dream homes using their designs. (See lesson plan notes for materials)
Now that we’ve made our designs, us architects are moving forward, out of the office and headed for the job site! I want you all to put on your imaginary hard hats with me, remember that hard hats are what we wear to protect their heads while their working like helmets. Now that you have your imaginary hard hat on we are going to picture the job site. The job site is the location where we will construct our home. Now we are going to imagine ourselves at the job site so maybe your job site is a big grassy area with trees and a pond. Or maybe your job site is underwater with fish and coral. Your job site is wherever you want your dream home to be. Now that we have arrived at our own job sites let start building!
Students then began to build their dream homes using their designs. (See lesson plan notes for materials)
Essential UnderstandingsForm and shape are used to visually represent ideas.
The artistic process requires planning and revision in order to create the art you desire. Key Concepts2-dimensional
3-dimensional Shape Form Refinement Art FocusInvestigating and exploring how artists create and why.
Exploring how artists describe their ideas in different ways. |
Learning Targets
Students will create clay homes by translating their 2D designs to 3D.
Students will describe and identify key architectural features (foundation, roof and walls) accurately. SkillsWorking with others
Sharing equipment Explaining their decisions Literacy FocusLearning how to "read" visual information such as other student's artwork, etc.
Learning how to articulate their thought process and decision making. Vocabulary: refinement, foundation, walls, roof, form, shape, detail, 2- dimensional, 3-dimensional, demo |
Documentation and Reflection
The photo to the right shows the beginning process of understanding the difference between shape and form as well as the students' understanding of it. The change between 2D to 3D becomes apparent to the students in this exercise where we handed out shapes and forms to the students at random. They then placed it near a board which was labelled accordingly.
One student made an interesting observation where he asked if he could flatten the clay and if that made it a form or a shape. He was asked to take a guess and he answered correctly saying that it was a form because it still had more than 2 sides. You can see the form that was flattened by this student in the photo near the word, "form." This observation really shows how the students made informative observations and applied the term "form" into a new context which wasn't specified prior. |
The purpose of today's lesson was to learn how to translate our 2-Dimensional images into 3-Dimensional works of art. The student in the video to the right explains in detail how he decided to turn the 2D into 3D. He has everything labelled in his drawing with words and images. He can point out everything in the drawing and where it is in the clay work. This student did a great job of voicing exactly what we were learning in class.
Later in the day the same student let me know that "battleships are grey and black and so I'm going to paint it grey and black." This kind of verbalization of the process really shows how engaged this student is as well as the ability of this student to explain their reasoning for how and why they make a decision. It also shows in the original drawing that there is minimal colors - mainly grey and black, which also goes back to our theme of planning in previous lessons. |