Clay

I created this lesson. This lesson was a clay pots. First I talked a little about the history of clay pots. Then I showed them designs clay pots. After that I gave each student clay and I went through each step so the students could follow along. We started with the base and then worked to the coils. I made sure the inside of the pot was smooth so that made sure the clay pot stayed together. They had to have at least 5 coils and the inside had to be smooth. I gave them the option to have designs in their bowl and I also gave them the option to paint their bowl.

An extension activity I could use with this is talking about texture. I would make them include texture to their pot. I would have them include 3 different types or different ways of texture.

Loom Weaving

This lesson was created by Emily Miller. Her lesson was on Loom weaving. We learned how to loom weave first by Emily showing us a video on look weaving. In the video, it showed us different ways you can make a pattern by loom weaving. We talked about having a pattern in our own design. She had the string on a cardboard ready for us to start weaving on which made it really nice and let us have more time for weaving. We had the choice of things to use like yarn and pipe cleaners.

An extension activity for this would be to make a full blanket for each student to use. You can also have each student make a decent size square and then add them all together to make a full blanket. You would need to make sure the squares were all the same size. Another extension activity for this would be an introduction into a society that uses or used loom weaving.  

Sea Life

This lesson was developed by Amanda Taylor. The purpose of this lesson was colors and using oil pastels. She provided stencils for us to trace. We would trace the stencil in crayons or oil pastels. When we got done tracing the sea animals, we could draw a design in the animal. Then we painted our animals using water colors.

An extension activity for this lesson could be using different kinds of paint, colors, crayons, and colored pencils to see if anything else would resist. You can also let them use all the colors of the color wheel to see what would turn out the best or see what would "pop" out the best.

Masks

This lesson was created by Rachel Waldner. We first learned about African Tribal masks. We saw all different kinds and what each kind of mask represented. Then we got to created our own mask. She showed us different ways to fold paper. We had to include at least 3 of the folds she taught us in our mask. She gave us a lot of different kind of things to create our masks. She gave us different kind of paper, texture and color. She also gave us pipe cleaners to use on our masks.

For an extension activity, I would have the students get into groups of 4 or 5 kids and they would have to create a play. In the play they would have to come up with name for their mask and what it represented, like this mask it the mask for fire. I would also use this activity to have students create famous people that we are talking about in class. Maybe at the end of a certain unit where we learned a lot about certain people, then the students can pick between many people we learned about to create a mask on.

Pop Art Printmaking

This lesson was created by Kallyn Jerde. She first started talking about Andy Warhol's contribution to pop art. The lesson was focused on how you can take an every day object and make them into extraordinary pieces of art. We had to create an object and draw it on a foam piece. Then we painted that foam piece using rollers. After we painted the foam piece, we would put the paint side face down on a piece of construction paper. After we did that we would roll the foam piece on the construction paper to get that picture we drew onto the construction paper.

An extension activity for this would be to make posters or advertisements. I think students would enjoy making a poster or advertisements to people we learned about or to promote something. We had to make a wanted poster in elementary school so I think I would be fun to make a wanted poster of yourself using

2D Paper Lesson

This lesson was done by Ryan McKissen. This was a 2D paper lesson. He talked about the use of shapes, background, middle ground, and foreground. After we learned about that, we all had to create a page on Harvey the Hippo. Harvey the Hippo was always getting himself into bad situations. We had to include a background, middle ground, and foreground in page of the story.

An extension activity I could use for this lesson would be to actually put it in a book for students to read. You could pick a different animal, maybe the mascot of your school, and maybe have that animal in helping situations when you talk about character counts or how people should act in certain situations.

Water Color Painting

This was a lesson done by Brittany Madrigal. For this lesson, we learned different ways to paint using water colors and blind contour drawing. We first started out trying to draw our hand by only looking at our hand and not the paper. After that, Brittany put a flower on the screen. We had to draw the flower without looking at our paper. These were very difficult to draw. Then we learned different ways to paint.  Brittany would tell us how to paint and we would do it on our own sheet of paper. She showed us 5 different ways of painting. Then we would draw a box randomly on our paper and we would have to use 2 of the techniques Brittany taught us.

An extension activity for this lesson would be to use this when starting out a science lesson. They could draw the life cycle of a butterfly. This way students can have fun while also learning about the life cycle of a butterfly.

Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night

This was a lesson done by Cassandra Mraz. We learned a little bit about the painting Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. Each student got a square from the painting Starry Night. First we sketched what our piece looked like on a piece of paper using a pencil. Then we matched our sketches up with the other squares to see how close they matched up. When all of ours matched up, we painted our piece of the picture. The main point of this lesson was using correct brush strokes and the right colors to match the square we received.

An extension activity for this lesson could be using other types of crayons or colored pencils to create this picture. You can try to incorporate strokes by using crayons or colored pencils.

DOT Day Explorations

For this activity, we watched a video showing how a kid did not know what to draw and he was told just to put something on a paper, and he started making dots. This shows how anyone can make their own mark or be creative with anything they make. We each got a certificate showing that we participated in DOT day. This would be really fun to do in an elementary classroom. An extension activity for this would be having each student come up with their own "mark" like what this kid did with dots.

Hidden Safari

For this project, we drew a safari animal in a cool color, which I used a light blue. I drew a picture of a rhinoceros. After we drew our picture, we had to draw a pattern on top of our picture using warm colors (yellow, red, orange). Then we had to create 3 clues so people could try to guess what our picture was first, then they could look through our "special glasses" to see what animal was drawn. Our glasses were of made of red plastic covered with red construction paper.

An extension activity for this project could be a science activity where they would be drawing plants from the forest. Their clues would be pretty detailed because we would have already talked about the plants in class. We would put these around the room and have each person write down what they think each plant is and when everyone was done we would see who would get the most right.

Elements and Principles

Assignment: Find elements and principles in our everyday life that we learned about in class.

 

Element: Texture (drywall)

 

 

 

 

Element: Contrast (couch cushion)

 

 

 

 

Element: Geometric Shape (end table)

 

 

 

 

Element: Lines (stereo speaker)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Element: Space (basketball)

Foot Print Introduction

The footprint project was to introduce ourselves to our classmates so we could get to know each other. The footprint had to have three kinds of media on it that described us and what we really liked. The whole footprint was supposed to be covered in things that described us.

Included in my footprint was sports balls. I am always playing a sport. I am currently playing football for Northern, however, when it is our offseason for football I am playing in a couple of basketball leagues and a couple of softball leagues in the summer. Also in my free time during the summer I like to go out in golf. The tractor represents how I grew up on a farm and kind of want to go back and farm when I am done with college. The N is for Northern where I am going to school and playing football. The apple represents me wanting to become a teacher. The helmet represents that I am playing college football and how much I love to play the sport. The background is supposed to be a football field. I made it into a football field because most of my time is spent doing stuff for football whether it is meetings, lifting, or practice, I am always busy with something football related.

This project was fun to do and fun to see what everyone else had on their footprint. This is a great way to get to know everyone in your classroom. An extension activity for this would be a good transition into famous people. You could tell them this footprint represents what you like and what you left behind for other people to know about you and then go on to talk about what some famous people left behind and what we know about them today. A good one to talk about would be Martin Luther King Jr.