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6th Grade Art: Dia de los Muertos Digital and 3D/Maker Ofrendas
6th Grader are starting a Day of the Dead altar (ofrenda) project commemorating an important relative or person. Some students are working with Tinkercad, 3D printer and the laser cutter. Other students are using Canva, Lucid Press, Pixlr, Adobe Spark (new to students this year!), and iMovie to create webpages, digital collages, and slideshows. Below are two videos describing el Dia de Los Muertos.
Click on Photo: Example of Ofrenda Adobe Spark Webpage template
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/
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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