Questions to Reflect and Deepen Content Understanding
Selfie Project: Graphic Design
"Look through your photo gallery on your phone and take note of any common poses, mannerisms, body language, or facial expressions that you are repeating. What do they have in common? How do you portray yourself? When you are taking your "self portrait" what are you communicating to the world?"
"Look through your photo gallery on your phone and take note of any common poses, mannerisms, body language, or facial expressions that you are repeating. What do they have in common? How do you portray yourself? When you are taking your "self portrait" what are you communicating to the world?"
Animation RAFTS: Create an advertisement for a thaumatrope convincing parents to buy one for their kids. The class generated a word bank for some good describing words: cheap, spinning, entertaining, optical illusion, magic. Students were instructed to explain why and how it works.
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Discussion Techniques
Animation: Compare and Contrast two forms of animation (flipstick and thaumatrope).
Art 7: Plastic Bag Sculptures: Exploring a new material to make a 3-Dimensional art piece. Students reflected on their process from the previous and in their sketchbooks and then were prepared to share with the whole group. "How can you make your sculpture look more realistic? How will the plastic bags help you achieve your texture?
Student Engagement and Participation: Summary Ball
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Graphic Design Students reviewed important tools with adobe illustrator through a summary ball game at the beginning of class. The teacher asked each student a question regarding a tool, students never knew who was going to catch the ball so they all needed to know the answer.
"what is an artboard? what does the alt key do? how do i make a perfect circle? move an object? before i change a color what do i do? Name of the picture frame looking box next to the "fill box"? describe type on a path. what does the preview box do? how do i apply an effect? how do i copy something (name two ways)? group a bunch of shapes and text together? rotate a shape? Add an anchor point? what is an anchor point? how do i change an anchor point?" |
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Student Participation in Class Discussion: Idea Wave
7th grade architecture class thinks of the needs of their town and how they could meet those needs through architecture.
Formative Assessment: Exit Questions
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Use of Student Responses to form Groups: 7th Grade Sculpture
After students completed their plastic bag investigations they reflected on discoveries that were made.
"With what you have discovered: What type of living organism lends itself to being sculpted from a plastic bag? Why/How?
Answers were sorted and then the best responses were selected to form student groups from. The author of the response card acted as group leader and was able to justify why the sculpture should be made using the bags.
"With what you have discovered: What type of living organism lends itself to being sculpted from a plastic bag? Why/How?
Answers were sorted and then the best responses were selected to form student groups from. The author of the response card acted as group leader and was able to justify why the sculpture should be made using the bags.
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Notes on a Question: What is Graphic Design? Visual Journaling
Design a page in your journal to showcase what graphic design is. Deconstruct the article. You are the "user", how can you best display the information so that it is meaningful to you and you will remember and understand it?
Questions that involve reflection on self: Photography
"Reflect on your 8 week photography journey. How have you personally grown through the study of photography? Has your journey shaped the way that you look at your surroundings? Identify how your sense of place, the way you see your community and feel a connection to it, has been altered during this class."
