Sunday, May 6, 2012

Emphasis on the Grid...

I improved a lesson that I had taught earlier this year and wanted to share some of my 'fixes' with you...


First... I dare you to look at this image and not smile:)  It's so darn cute!

One of the major changes I did for this project was bring them to the lab to get their image.  In the past I have asked kids to bring in an image.  Many of them would not bring in any image and some images just didn't work well for this project.  This way I can be there to tell them yes or no.  Also, I taught the 7th grade students to search for a black line image rather to keep it simple, because the main skill here was using a grid... not drawing a complex image.  This helped a ton.

I had kids cut the image out and place it on a uniformed 1 inch grid.  Last time I taught this I had kids measure out a grid and use what ever units worked well for their image.  This time I gave them a pre made grid.  They cut it out, placed it on and drew the lines over the image again.  This created a more consistent class for instruction.

I had the kids make their grid exactly the same as the small grid only 2 inches by 2 inches.  This means they added an 'ABC' line at the top, and a '1, 2 ,3' line on the side.  They later cut this grid off before turning in the project.

Finally, while in the lab the first day I had them research line designs.  This was helpful as well. They were prepared to draw out their whole project when it was time.

Again, I made the concept of this project was the principle of art- Emphasis, and I feel this project works well for that concept.  Please view other student examples on my flickr account. (click here).

UPDATE:  Great suggestion from Jen Carlisle


created a grid using the table feature in windows office and then printed them onto transparencies... It saves so much time and I know that at least one of my students grids will be right. They just lay right over the image. Some students beg to keep theirs and others give them back. 

3 comments:

  1. I just stumbled onto your blog and I'm loving it. What creative ideas you have here!

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  2. created a grid using the table feature in windows office and then printed them onto transparencies... It saves so much time and I know that at least one of my students grids will be right. They just lay right over the image. Some students beg to keep theirs and others give them back.

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  3. When you take the kids to the lab to look for images how do you keep them from stumbling upon non school appropriate images? The one time I took my kids to find their own images using google search...my god what showed up made me think I was going to get fired!

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