View here. Lesson Plan Overview Grade: Four Length: 4 Days (60 min/day) Subject: Arts Education (Visual Art and Literature Strand)/English Language Arts Content: Students will be able to practice their critical thinking skills while fostering creativity by creating a poem about one great thing and an illustration to symbolize the poem. We will be reading two books that have inspired the activity. This lesson focuses on the development and importance of creativity.
My Artistic Process For my third Process Journal, I chose to create an Eco-Art inspired dance party playlist. I wanted to create a playlist that had both variety and songs featuring Indigenous artists. The playlist is as follows: The Playlist “Landback” – A Tribe Called Red, Boogey the Beat, Northern Voice “Landback” was created to support the Wet’suwe’ten nation in their conflict with the Canadian government. It is a reflection of the Wet’suwe’ten nation’s connection to land and nature. I…
For my second process journal, I decided to create a sound map based on the sounds I heard outside. My Process My sound map is inspired by the sounds I heard in our yard. I chose to use fall colors because when outside it feels and looks exactly like the middle of fall: Brown: The brown squiggles represent my conversation with Raya. Our conversation was random and occurred in small spurts. Orange: The orange dashed curves represent the sound of…
For my first process journal, I chose to practice land-based arts education by creating a piece using junk. My Artistic Process I am currently watching my boyfriend’s eight-year-old sister because she is sick and cannot be at school. So, I decided that we could both make our own land-based art. We began by walking around outside and we talked about what we saw, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted. When we were outside I noticed that there were a lot of…
For my Online Arts Project, I chose to use Scratch to create a short animation. What is Scratch? Scratch is a program that teaches kids the basics of coding. The program uses ‘Block Coding’, which is the most simplest form of code and is based off of Java Script. Usually when children are learning the basics of coding they begin with Block Coding and then progress to Java Script. With Scratch you can be infinitely creative and explore your creativity…