Midland High School-- First 8 Weeks
Beginning Art -- Dog Tag Lesson
After designing compositions, students cut three kinds of metal: brass, copper, nickel silver with jewelry saws. Students must have a two-part image with a personal meaning. Soldering was monitored by Miss Dowd as students used the materials including the polisher. Pictured right are a few of the best outcomes including a few that had mishaps with the acetylene melting the metal.
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Beginning Art -- Watercolor Self-Portrait
This three week unit had students practicing techniques and skill of drawing portraiture along with watercolor techniques. Students combined all skills practiced and drew a self-portrait using continuous contour line and complimentary color schemes.
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3-D Art -- Jewelry Making
Students first sculpted their designs with wax. Thy were required to make two pieces of jewelry (ring, earrings, pendant) that were a matching set following a common theme. Once sculpted with wax, students measured the wax weight and multiplied it by the gravity weight of the type of metal they wanted. Students invested their jewelry by adding a sprue and mixing fine jewelry plaster. The loss-wax method is used by burning out the wax in a kiln.
Using acetylene gas and oxygen, the metal is melted down into a centrifugal caster casting the metal where the wax once was. Students file and polish their pieces for the final product. Student work is presented right.
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3-D Art -- House of Cards Project
The 3-D Advanced Art class took photos of their work pictured at right. Students had to use the concept of multiples to creating meaning by using two decks of cards and ten hot glue sticks. The hot glue was only a structural element, not sculptural. The other requirement was that the sculpture had to be two feet in one direction as well.
Decks of cards were donated by the Soaring Eagle Casino providing four different colors. Prezi Introduction: https://prezi.com/view/uUwbJznWnKqmAyvrQBAx/
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Siebert Elementary-- Last 8 Weeks
At a time of chaos.. "Radiate Kindness"
Here used to exist a plaster wall that was an eye sore. During this time, Siebert was under remodeling and massive construction during school hours until the end of the 2017-2018 school year. Taken from the idea of Pete the custodian, Katelin and her Cooperating Teacher beautified the wall. In an effort to create something positive for the school, students and teachers are able to enjoy the warmth of the sun during the destruction and distracting commotion happening around the school. Without the literal use of words, this sun had radiated kindness and joy to all who walked Siebert.
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STEM- 5th Grade
Students analyzed structures of towers as to why they do not fall over or crash to the ground. Just like the tower, students were given 25 minutes of class time to build a tower out of only newspaper and masking tape. The tower must hold the basketball for at least 20 seconds. For an extra challenge student could build the tallest tower that could also hold the basketball for 20 seconds. The towers that worked between the two 5th grade classes went on display outside of the classroom (pictured right).
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Papier Mache
During my first three weeks in elementary, we did papier mache in all the grades. First week was making armatures from recycled materials such as cups, paper and toilet paper tubes. Second week, students papier mache armatures. Third week, students painted with acrylic paint their projects adding detail. Developed into each lesson were choices of color and design.
Kindergarten-- Lady Bugs First- Donuts Second- Jelly Fish Third- Water Birds Fourth- Ice Cream Cones Fifth- Animals |
Origami Week
As a one day lesson, every grade 1-4 did an origami lesson prior to Spring Break. Students watched informational documentary videos about the animals and then learned how to fold paper into a 3-Dimensional form to place into their landscape. Grades 2 and 3 tore paper to layer for their ground on the background paper for their whales and foxes.
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PYP- Primary Years Programme
Midland Public Schools is an Inter-Baccalaureate school district including at the Elementary level, which is one of few in Michigan. Katelin had the chance of being a part of collaborative with the other 8 Elementary teachers as well as any Professional Development that took place in the Siebert Elementary Building. The PYP unit is planned with all the other art teachers and is 8 weeks long. Katelin was fortunate enough to teach the first 3-4 weeks of the PYP.
The weekly lessons are below and pictures are at right of a 4-5 Printmaking projects and K-2's sun ray paintings of things that they love.
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