My First Take of Art
16 January 2017
5 Art Interests
1. Learning what different types of mediums will be best
to use for certain projects
2. How I can make art fun and engaging for children?
3. How to be a more confident artist
4. How I can learn what type of art is best to teach
certain grades with certain academic topics
5. How I can be an advocate for having an arts program
in my future school
Contemporary: Belonging to or occurring in the present; something happening during my
lifetime
Abstract: existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or
concrete existence
Modern: relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote
past.
Kitsch: Art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because
of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an
ironic way.
I think kitsch is good in
some situations and bad in others. Sometimes a beautiful illustration or piece
of artwork can be taken to a new, less powerful value because of the added
garnish and color. Sometime kitsch can be a good thing to add humor or to make
a bold statement.
21 January 2016
My Inquiry
What inquiry means to me, parallels the idea of asking a
question. Inquiring about something you want to learn more about. Doing the
research on that topic. The act of asking about more information. Another
definition that I understand about inquiry is undertaking an official
investigation about a certain topic, event, or person. To learn more about
this, I Googled Inquiry and Art and found a website titles Art & Inquiry in
Any Classroom. It mentioned the following facts that I agreed with:
·
Incorporating inquiry-based
learning into the classroom requires changing the environment from one of
passive information reception to one of curiosity and desire for explanations.
·
Students seek
and explore their own questions (love this one!)
·
Making art
relevant to the students’ lives and classroom content
·
Questions are
invaluable teaching tools that serve many functions in the teaching and
learning processes.
·
Teachers should
present a scaffold upon which students can layer their understanding of the
complexities of the subject.
·
Weave factual
information into the discovery process
·
Ask open-ended
questions and WAIT! (I have a hard time with this one!)
·
Give creative,
yet meaningful activities
·
Use their form
of ‘text’ like twitter, google, skype, and other apps to connect with other
students and teachers around the world.
You then asked us to inquire
about something interesting to us and want us to explore…I chose to inquire
more about children’s fitness and eating habits.
TED Talk: Jamie Oliver –
Teach Every Child About Food
Key Points:
·
Parents have
“blessed” their children with shorter life spans than parents themselves.
·
We have built a
landscape of food around children
·
Heart Disease,
Cancers, and Strokes are the number one killer in America
·
It is a Global
Thing as well
·
150 billion
dollars a year spent of medical bills
·
Kids are eating
themselves to death
·
Obesity and
diet-related diseases doesn’t just hurt the people who have it, but everyone
around them as well. Their loved ones, family members, and friends
·
Largely
processed with additives
·
Labeling is a
massive problem
·
Industry wants
to self-police themselves
·
“Low-fat but is
filled with SO MUCH SUGAR!”
·
School was
created to make us inventive, arm us with information…etc.
·
31 million
children have school food twice a day
·
Budgets ruin
creativity in the cafeteria; not enough fresh foods
·
“Pizza are
breakfast”
·
“Knives and
forks are too dangerous” purely endorsing fast food
·
Children do not
even know what vegetables are what
·
If children do
not know what food is, they will never eat it
·
TEACHING OUR
STUDENTS ABOUT FOOD IN SCHOOL!
·
There is sugar
in EVERYTHING
·
This is child
abuse
·
All of this is
preventable by food ambassadors in grocery stores, have the government wean
fast food restaurants off of using non-food items, new standard of fresh in the
schools, and it is profoundly important that every single American child leaves
school knowing how to cook 10 recipes that will save their life. Real life
skills.
·
Cook at home
with real and fresh food
·
Six and a half
grand per school
·
Local cooks
teaching local people
Non-Profit Organization in
my Local Home Community
Noble Path Foundation
The mission of The Noble Path Foundation is to help
change the world by changing the diet and lifestyle habits of our youth, since
their health is what determines our future. Statistics show that factors such
as the Industrialized Global Diet and questionable tactics by our food
industry, have made this the first generation of kids to not outlive their
parents. The Center for Disease Control recently released a study stating that
42% of "normal weight" kids are already showing signs of metabolic
risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease due to increased
amounts of visceral fat and insulin resistance caused by excessive sugar and
processed foods. As we face a real-life global crisis, where there is an
epidemic of obese 6-month old infants and the number of people in the world
with diabetes has increased over 700% over the last 25 years, the evidence is
undeniable, as is the need for awareness to stop it, because here's the kicker:
It is not only preventable, it is also reversible.
The goal of The Noble Path Foundation is to stem this
tide of degradation and to inform, educate and disseminate as much information
as possible on the dangers of our current love affair with sugar and highly
processed carbs. In conjunction with awareness, we also hope to provide
outstanding fitness programs and opportunities that can spawn a lifetime addiction
to movement, exercise, and flexibility. Our 9-week Student Challenge programs
are designed to cover both sides of that coin and take the guessing out of
whether or not these kids will live long, healthy lives or be doomed to passing
on a failing legacy of disease and metabolic dysfunction. We combine
informative and interesting nutrition seminars with fast-paced, fun and
carefully monitored exercise programs to encourage both movement and clean
eating.
Arts Integration Ideas
Lesson Plan Sketch 1
Standard 4, Objective 2; First Grade Social Studies:
Students will describe the economic choices people make to meet their basic
economic needs.
Recognize and decipher between what humans WANT versus
what humans NEED in order to survive. Students will be able to distinguish
wants vs. needs and that citizens need to make important choices to meet their
needs.
Question: Some things we want just because…but what do
we really need in order to survive?
Contemporary
Artists
Fabric of Survival with Bernice
Steinhardt
Unknown Artist
Deborah
Lozier
I decided to
do a collage grappling with the idea of wants versus needs, but taking it back
to my first inquiry. I did not mean to overlap these ideas, but it just kind of
happened that way. I want students to know that candy and junk food is a want,
but fruits and veggies are a need for survival.
Lesson Plan Sketch 2
Standard 4, Objective 2; Kindergarten Science:
Students will gain an understanding of Life Science through the study of
changes in organisms over time and the nature of living things.
Objective 1
Investigate living things. Construct questions, give reasons,
and share findings about all living things and compare and contrast young
plants and animals with their parents. Describe some changes in plants and
animals that are so slow or so fast that they are hard to see. Students will
learn to identify major parts of plants, e.g., roots, stem, leaf, flower,
trunk, branches.
Question: What are some major parts of living
organisms that change over time and how do some animals grow to be the way they
are.
Contemporary
Artists
Texas Contemporary Art Fair
Janet Laurence Cellular Gardens
Ethan Frier and Jacob Douenias Living Thing
I decided to
do a collage of old leaves, new leaves, new branches, new flowers, old flowers,
and a branch that was about to bud. I almost felt bad picking this ‘about to
bloom’ branch because it was a living thing. I wanted to portray the difference
in living things, dead branches, and branches that were about to bloom! I was
planning on bringing it to class. But I can also send a picture.
Artwork Throughout the Class
Second Lesson Plan Sketch
Color Matching Quiz
Color Matching in Class
There are multiple dimensions to a heart.
Flowers in a vase
My rookie attempt at sketching one of my leotards.
My first Lesson Sketch Activity/Art Project. There is a fine line between candy and fruits and veggies but they can both be very colorful!
This was kind of a random idea I had, but I wanted to show my inquiry and how it effects things. I water colored each color that I had in my swatch that I had purchased. I then added sugar to each color and the sugar became that color. This implies that sugar effects everything and everyone, "every color, not just one color." The sugar will literally become you like it becomes each color.
This was my first go at water color...I created an orange.
For my third lesson sketch and Comprehensive Lesson Plain, I decided to focus on a science standard for Kindergarten about Weather and how each different weather pattern makes them feel different. The sunset over the water makes me feel nostalgic.
