Peer Teaching- Craft

 

Description: For this activity students had a lesson that revolved around Earth Day. Students had also learned about Picasso and his continuous line are. Students had then created a landscape that had reminded them of the Earth or Earth Day, they were required to make the landscape in one continuous line. After they had created their continuous line drawing students then got to do the bubble art, with bubble art students had to use at least 3 colors to create their bubbles, they had to blow down into a pie tin or cup and create the bubbles to place on their paper. This art project was so much fun to do with the class and very experimental for the students.

Extension Activity: For this activity, I would create a bubble art mural for the classroom. We would get a big piece of paper and have students use a water bottle top to create the bubbles instead of a straw. Students would then go around the sheet and create bubbles. at the end the students would work on their handwriting by having a continuous line with their cursive, we would then put a picture of each classmate on by their name and have a continuous line connecting all of the students name!

Peer Teaching- Clay

 

Description: In this activity, we created a trinket bowl out of clay. In the assignment, we were required to have one add-on and one subtraction on the bowl. For my bowl, I had decided to do the constellation and astrology sign that corresponded with my birthday. My subtraction was the constellation and the name of my sign and the add-on was the symbol of the sign. I had thought that this activity was really fun and I had a lot of fun with creating the bowl and the shapes in it.

Extention Activity: For this activity, I think that it could be a great idea for students to make themselves a fidget bowl for at their desk, each students will be allowed to make and create their bowl however they choose using the one add-on and one subtraction tool, they will then be able to add in some sensory items that they can fidget with at their desk during lessons. 

Peer Lesson- Print Making

 

Description: For this project, we were able to make a specific print that related to us and put it onto paper. We first had to sketch out a minimum of two different objects that could tell others about us, after we were done sketching the artwork we were then able to transfer it onto a piece of styrofoam. once we had transferred it over to the styrofoam and made sure the lines were deep enough we got the printmaking ink and rolled the styrofoam onto 4 pieces of paper and then glued them onto a background sheet. We were instructed to share what images we had chosen and why. I think that this activity would be fun to do at the beginning of the year because it allows you as a teacher to get to know your students better and have the students be able to share about themselves also.

Extension Activity: For this activity, I would attempt to link this to a social studies unit. I would want to find a way for students to create a print that was based on ancient civilization and show their classmates a story using a print. Students would have to find symbols that related to this civilization and create a story or myth with the print! 

Peer Lesson- Paper crafts

 Description: For this activity, we were able to create a paper weaved rug. The teachers had brought in many different outside resources such as woven rugs from the colonies, African woven rugs, and Navajo woven rugs. We were able to pick two colors to work with along with another paper to help with the weaving and hold our other pieces in place. We had to alternate every other color to every other row to get the weaving effect. After we were done weaving we added a fringed side to make the rug look more rugged.

Extension Activity: For this activity depending on the grade level I would have students make a wavier primary background to use. Students will then have to put a pattern on their colored pieces to create a rug that is more in-depth. I would also consider doing this project as a craft and using yarn to create a rug also.

Peer Lesson- Painting

 Description: For this painting project we were basing it on an artist who had lived in the Yukon and made very bright and vibrant colored landscapes. We were instructed to create some hills and then a sun and draw lines coming out from that. The closer to the sun the lighter the colors were supposed to be and the further from the sun the darker they were supposed to be. We also had created the sun on up as warm colors while the sundown/hills were cool colors. 

Extension Activity: I think that this activity would be great to integrate a subject like social studies into, especially because of where the artist had lived. We would research the geography of the Yukon and then have the students come up with their own landscape with the Yukon's geography influencing the landscape chosen.

Peer Lesson- Drawing

 Description; For this activity, we were instructed to use different lines and shapes to create an illusion on paper. We had to use contrasting colors to make it seem like the picture was moving with three different colors. WE had to have the checkered portion in the middle of the image with an initial and then create an organic shape and trace it all of the ways across the paper till the page was filled. As we were finishing the design we had to list the different types of media that we had used in the project.

Extension: I think that this activity was fun to do. I had especially liked that you could see some of the student's voices and their choices come out during the activity. How I would change this activity or use it is by students study more of the illusion and the background of this project and use an organic shape to create it.

Hidden Safari

 

Description: For this project, we got to create a hidden animal behind warm colors that were in different shapes and patterns. We had to use these special safari goggles to see through the color pattern and identify the animal hiding behind this picture. When it came to drawing the image we were instructed to draw the animal upside down in a light blue colored pencil to hid the animal behind. After that, we were instructed to list three clues for people to guess what animal is behind the color camouflage.

Extension:I would use this activity in a science classroom when we are learning about the food chains and food webs. Students will be given a category of animals they need to draw an image of. After the students get their designated category they will draw the animal and then cover them up with warm colors. They will have to use their knowledge of the animal and its place in the food chain or web to give hints for other students to guess what animal they had picked.