Practicum Art Project

I've talked about the collages I brought to the art show to some of my colleagues, but I thought I would share with everyone exactly what the art project was.

I made my integrated unit plan with art and science. With my class, we were doing the grade 4 unit on light and sound. Some of the learning outcomes were to identify natural and artificial sources of light, recognize white light can be separated into colours, and define the terms transparent, translucent, and opaque. With the collages, I wanted to review some of the concepts, so the assignment was to represent a natural source of light using materials that are translucent, transparent, and opaque. We discussed why we would use these materials and also discussed mood and use of colour. After showing the students some collage examples in a PowerPoint presentation, I let the students fly at it. As they were working, I questioned the students about what elements they were including and different elements of the collage. The students had blast creating their art.