In an effort to motivate middle school students to get excited about studying poetry, I collaborated with the Language Arts teacher to develop a poetry unit which incorporated art making and digital storytelling. Here is a short digital story about this very successful integration of art and technology across the curriculum.
Art Careers Projects
I love our last unit of the semester -- Art Careers. I enjoy sharing with students the vast variety of careers related to the visual arts. My Art 6 students studied the field of architecture. Working independently and in small groups they planned and drew blue prints of their dream house. I tried to incorporate Math skills by teaching them how to find the area and perimeter of their drawings.
I like to give my Art 7 and Art 8 students a choice of art careers to choose from for their independent and small group projects. The drawing on the left is a design by student who is working on a project about Industrial Design. He invented a personal handheld computer device that can fold into a cube or unfold flat. That's creativity at work.
Mrs. Mathis & the Mona Lisa
I couldn't wait to share these photos with my students. Here I am standing in front of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo DaVinci at the Louvre in Paris, France. I first saw this painting many years ago as a backpacking college student traveling through Europe for the summer. I recently returned to the city of lights to celebrate my 20th wedding anniversary during the school break and took in all the art the city had to offer. I love this Sonia DeLaunay painting at the Pompidou Centre. This would be a great artwork for integrating math and geometry, especially circles, radius, diameter and circumference.
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