I am an architect!
Day 2
This week we continued the lesson with the following prompt:
Today, we architects are headed back to our jobs sites. Everyone put your hard hats on and imagine your job site. So far, you’ve done a lot of work building your home and everything is coming together. As you arrive at the job site you hear the sounds of construction, saws, machines, hammers on nails and you meet with your construction manager to talk about your home. A construction manager is the person who is helping you build you dream home. You and your construction manager talk about all the work you’ve done, your foundation is set, you walls are up and everything is going well. Now you start talking about what work you still have to do. Maybe you are still installing your roof and windows or maybe your adding details, you also start thinking about color. What color is your house going to be? Is it going to be more than one color? Now that you and your construction manager are done speaking, let’s demo/review our materials and tools and get back to building!
Students then continued building their dream homes using their designs. (See lesson plan notes for materials)
Today, we architects are headed back to our jobs sites. Everyone put your hard hats on and imagine your job site. So far, you’ve done a lot of work building your home and everything is coming together. As you arrive at the job site you hear the sounds of construction, saws, machines, hammers on nails and you meet with your construction manager to talk about your home. A construction manager is the person who is helping you build you dream home. You and your construction manager talk about all the work you’ve done, your foundation is set, you walls are up and everything is going well. Now you start talking about what work you still have to do. Maybe you are still installing your roof and windows or maybe your adding details, you also start thinking about color. What color is your house going to be? Is it going to be more than one color? Now that you and your construction manager are done speaking, let’s demo/review our materials and tools and get back to building!
Students then continued building their dream homes using their designs. (See lesson plan notes for materials)
Essential UnderstandingsArtists use shape and form to visually represent their ideas.
Planning and revision are important components of the artistic process. Key ConceptsForm
Shape Artist intention Refinement Revision Art FocusInvestigating and exploring how to translate shapes into forms.
Exploring how to translate two-dimensional designs to three-dimensional structures. |
Learning TargetsStudents will create their future dream homes utilizing shape, form and detail.
Students will identify and define what each tool is and does through individual in-process critique. SkillsExpressing an idea
Explaining their decisions Imagining and planning their next steps Literary FocusLearning how to "read" visual information to determine artistic intent.
Learning how to verbally and visually articulate their thought process and decision making. Vocabulary: refinement, foundation, walls, roof, form, shape, detail, 2- dimensional, 3-dimensional, demo |
Documentation and Reflection
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In today's lesson students continued to work on translating their 2-Dimensional images into 3-Dimensional works of art. The student in the video to the left, explains the different parts of his dream home and how he translated certain aspects from 2D to 3D. The student also explains that he had to consider what would be inside his home although in his original drawing he only drew the outside. This student does a great job of showing how he translated his drawing into his 3D home and how, as he worked, he had to consider new aspects, details and what revisions he would make.
In the video below, one student explains different parts of his dream home and how the pieces fit together. The student also goes on to identify changes that he made to his home while building. One of the essential understandings for this project is that planning and revision are important components of the artistic process and this student does a great job of identifying the revisions that he made. |
Throughout the lesson students verbalize their artistic process and show how engaged they are in their work. Student's continue to engage and persist through the challenge of translating their 2D drawings into 3D models. As both of these videos demonstrate, students are able to clearly express their artistic intention and identify areas where they made revisions.
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