Wednesday, December 12, 2012
It's a wonderful life
It really is. And it's our theme for the annual door decorating contest. How did the art teacher do?
Quick ornament project
Scrap clay? Present time? Borrowed cookie cutters from home ec teacher? Sounds like holiday craft to me!
Terrific tessellations!
Another cross curricular lesson, this time, mathematics. 7 th graders cover tesselations in math second semester, but most of my 8th graders forgot all about it. Here is the instructions on creating fantastic designs using the " paper cut method" rediscovered by a 15 year old girl from tesselations.org
Here are some finished student examples. They did wonderful!
Here are some finished student examples. They did wonderful!
Friday, December 7, 2012
Christmas recycling
Happy holidays! I created this tree from directions on instructables.com. Students who finished early with their tesselations got to create a decoration for it. Displayed in CJHS halls!
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Micrography project
Sometimes called calligrams or concrete poetry, students use text to create an image. In this project, we are using an author and their work!
Students pick an author and a text. One of the reasons we are doing this project is that a lot of students are already reading books in other classes, and this activity reinforces what they are reading and makes them investigate at least a little deeper the author of their books.
We start by going to the computer lab and searching for an image of their author. Once they find an acceptable image, they save it and email the picture to me. I take the picture and manipulate it with photoshop or microsoft word. Its printed with 2 values: Black and white. High contrast. The black areas will be filled with text, the white areas left blank
Back in the classroom, students trace the edges of the black shapes on drawing paper LIGHTLY.
Then they open up their book and start writhing with pens. The smaller the text, the darker the area.
This is a magical project where the image of an author is created using the words that they wrote. Art inspired by art, crossing from language to visual and back again.
Students pick an author and a text. One of the reasons we are doing this project is that a lot of students are already reading books in other classes, and this activity reinforces what they are reading and makes them investigate at least a little deeper the author of their books.
We start by going to the computer lab and searching for an image of their author. Once they find an acceptable image, they save it and email the picture to me. I take the picture and manipulate it with photoshop or microsoft word. Its printed with 2 values: Black and white. High contrast. The black areas will be filled with text, the white areas left blank
Back in the classroom, students trace the edges of the black shapes on drawing paper LIGHTLY.
Then they open up their book and start writhing with pens. The smaller the text, the darker the area.
This is a magical project where the image of an author is created using the words that they wrote. Art inspired by art, crossing from language to visual and back again.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Monday, October 8, 2012
AdventureTime Hat
Most of my students know I love Adventure time, and I have lost my Finn hat! Time to make another!! Here is the pattern from Frederator Studios, way back in 2010. Easy enough for me to do!
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