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Submitted by: Jan
Hillmer
UNIT: Aboriginal Art- Technology
PROJECT: The Journey to my Laptop
Grade Level: Elementary (these are fourth grade)
Related
Lesson Plan - Bark Painting by Teri Mason
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WEEK:
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Laptop
Journey Paragraph
On
the sides you will see a sun and a moon the moon side
means dark and hard times.
The sun side means good and happy times.
On my lines there are little u shaped yellow
lines those represent friends.
Yellow dots are symbols for friends or happiness.
The green is a symbol for the plant we had to
take care of before we got our laptop.
Then all the purple lines and dots represent
computers or laptops.
The person in the middle of the screen represents
me
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Dots
The
dots represent that the journey has been odd. The spray
paint represents that the journey has been rough. The
straight lines represent that the journey has been very
fast. The different colors represent that in the
journey, there has been a lot of problems. The journey
has been very fun!!!
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Objectives:
The learner will see some works of Aboriginal art.
Symbols will be discussed.
The learner will create
a work symbolizing their own journey to their laptop using
concepts of the Aboriginal art.
The
learner will write about their "journey" and will create
a PowerPoint.
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Materials:
Computer with
‘Paint’ program PowerPoint
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Instructional
Resources:
Scholastic Art Magazine,
Nov. 2001
Aboriginal Art: Past,
Present and Future Posters
Animal Dreaming:
an aboriginal dreamtime story
by Paul Morin
Aboriginal
Art links.
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Vocabulary:
Symbol, Pattern,
Dreaming or Dreamtime
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Instruction/Motivation:
Discuss artworks from Scholastic Magazine.
Include discussion on symbols used, interpretation of
symbols. Also
discuss how time is portrayed in Dreaming Aboriginal Art (Not as
a ‘timeline’ or by specifically dividing the paper into
sections.)
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Procedures: Using
the Paint program in most computers, have students create
picture using ‘energy’ dots (paintbrush or spray can icon)
in various colors, creating or borrowing symbols as necessary to
show growth from first time they used a computer to now, when a
laptop is part of most of the classroom activities.
Students may also use shape tools along with lines and flood
fill.
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Closure: Have
students also create a statement
approx. 4 sentences in length explaining their work.
Use Word Art for
title if desired. Students
email the statement and Laptop Journey Art to teacher to
assemble in PowerPoint.
Suggestion: Students
create a PowerPoint and email to teacher – save a step.
Student will make a title page (include their name - I left name
off deliberately) and experiment with background fill. Insert
image on second slide and insert a text block with their writing
on the third slide. Word Art may be used if desired (see second
slide).
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Evaluation: How
does Student show / create symbols?
Are all borrowed or are some created for Laptop Art?
How does student show time sequence?
What is unexpected about the artwork?
Has the student taken the time to carefully use many
dots?
Note
from Jan:
At my school, the kids are required to get Laptops in 4th grade
(private school). They also study America - Native Americans,
Colonial America, up to Civil War. So, I thought it would be
cool to connect ancient art of Australia, with symbols to tell
of beginnings, with cutting edge technology - Paint program in
their new laptops.
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