First Day of 8th Grade Art: Photography

8th graders watched a short video photography tutorial about using the aperture setting to control depth of field, focus, and exposure. With the Pansonic Lumix GF3 digital SLR cameras, students chose various subjects to photograph at the West Campus.

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6th Grade Paper Brain Models

As my school joins the maker and stem movement, more and more of collegial conversations focus on student projects as problem solving. The need for students to understand and to manipulate materials is imperative. One such project incorporates all of these ideas. It is the origami paper brain model by Martin Pyka. Examples below are from my 6th gr. class. http://www.martinpyka.de/paperbrain/

6th Grade ART: Museum Tours and Websites

Picasso: 4th Grade Picasso, Portraits and Cubism

The fourth graders are working on Cubistic self portraits. They are learning about the process of abstraction, Picasso, and Cubism. Students are making connections in how Cubist artists were inspired by West African masks. Below are examples of resources we are looking at in class and students creating their own self portraits.

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