Tiny House Design. In this lesson we talked about the careers of engineering, architecture, city planning, and exterior design before designing our own little worlds. Students started by using math concepts to draw and and design a 6 x 8 inch house out of one piece of paper. We talked about building materials and aesthetics to create a realistic structure to live in. From there they had to incorporate a chimney roof, and porch to compliment their design. To finish it off, students received an acre of “land” to create a yard that could facilitate their hobbies and dreams. They had a great time making the items in the yard as you can see!

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In this assignment, our objective was to create a Greek style Temple using only paper and a copy paper box lid. We first studied the history and particular style, purposes and materials of Grecian temples. We then determined how to create the shapes with paper and then drew, colored, cut, glued and assembled them. It was great to see the students applying an historical reference to their work!

I wanted to have students create one project that everyone in class could contribute a piece to. I wanted it to be the first project of the semester so I could launch the lesson by stating how important it is for a class to be unified in nature and how no one is more important than the whole of the class. The best way to fulfill our mission was by having each student decorate and glue up one square icohedron. Once complete, we glue 12 together end to end  to create a ring (18″across) and then the second half creates the other ring, to complete the sphere. Geometry plus art equals awesome!

Hello and welcome to Introduction to Art. This is a sixth grade class that is an exploratory course designed to get students exposure to many forms of art including 2 and 3 dimensional mediums. I see students every other day for this class, so we are able to create at least 9 projects from Feb. thru June. We will be using markers, watercolor paint, paper mache, clay, paper sculpture, etc. Attached to this post is the syllabus that can be used for reference. It was sent home today 2/4, is to be signed and brought back by 2/ 10.

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Welcome to Semester 2 and three dimensional Art. In this class we’ll be exploring the concepts of creating art in many mediums such as clay, paper, cardboard, wire and paper mache. Attached to this post is the syllabus that covers the concepts and requirements of the class. Students will be taking this home today and It should be returned by Friday Feb. 5th for 10 points of credit.

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Please check out this link for a great after school opportunity for your student. It’s called Engineering for Kids!

Engineering For Kids Winter 2016

Package Design/ SHARK TANK! With this assignment, students were to research package design to see what makes various products desirable to consumers. They were then tasked with creating a specific product and then create a logo and package design to help “sell” their project. From there, we had the students “pitch the product” very much like the television show SHARK TANK. It was amazing to see students get involved with “selling” their ideas, and making connections between Art and the real world!

The best way to get students to understand how to draw things that are real is to have them do exercises that help them understand how we see things in everyday life. Any item that you can see 2 sides of, you see in perspective. This assignment helps students to understand that. The first thing to do is to simply put a dot at the center of the page. That is our vanishing point, and all lines must go to that point on the horizon. From there, you must create the front side of a shape, in this case a rectangular “building”. From there, simply find all open corners of that shape that can go to the vanishing point and draw them going toward that point (stopping where you want your building to end). After that, simply add doors, windows, and signs, and you have a street!