Collaborative Class Collage: Where You Are and Where You Are Not
Teacher: Jennifer Welsh
Grades 3-5th
Standards:
Pennsylvania Academic Standards for the Arts and Humanities
9.1.3.A. Know and use the elements and principles of each art form to create works in the arts and humanities
9.1.3.C. Recognize and use fundamental vocabulary within each of the arts forms.
9.1.3.H. H. Handle materials, equipment and tools safely at work and performance spaces
9.2.3.C. Relate works in the arts to varying styles and genre and to the periods in which they were created
9.2.8.L. Identify, explain and analyze common themes, forms and techniques from works in the arts
Educational Technology Standards (NETS•S) and Performance Indicators for Students
1. Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes
a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make
Informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.
6. Technology Operations and Concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. Students:
a. Understand and use technology systems.
b. Select and use applications effectively and productively.
Goal: To create a digital collaborative collage.
Objectives:
Students will be introduced and become familiar to scanning images
Students will be introduced to artists who use cutouts and/or silhouettes
Students will become familiar with Collage
Students will become familiar with collaborative art
Students will create a digital image
Students will reflect on their own image
Students will reflect on their peer’s images & the final project
Students will reflect on the process of using Photoshop as a medium and working with others on a piece of collaborative art
Requirements:
Participate in opening discussion
Produce a digital image
Participate in collaborative art/discussion
Understand new vocabulary
Resource Materials/Visuals
Exemplars
PowerPoint
Demonstration
Supplies
Photographs
Black Permanent Fine Line Markers
Computers/Scanners
Photoshop
Printers/Paper
Teacher Preparation
Create exemplar
Prepare demonstrations
Prepare the school image and insert student images
Create a vocabulary handout
Teaching
Introduction
To introduce the students to this assignment we will first look at some work by Lonnie Hutchinson who uses silhouettes and Charles Cohen who uses cut outs. Then we will go over the assignment and brainstorm ideas as a class about the school and where we wish we were. We will talk about photographs we have with people and places that could be used. This will allow the students to get ideas for their own piece. Then I will do a demonstration on how to color themselves in with the permanet black marker on their images and scan them into the computer.
Directions
1. Find an image you like, where you are in the picture.
2. Using the marker, color in yourself completely in your image (be careful and try to be exact)
3. Take your image and place it inside the scanner.
4. Press SCAN.
5. On the computer screen it will automatically come up.
6. There will be an option of what to do with the image, SAVE AS A FILE.
7. Title the image file with your last name EX. Welsh.jpg.
Closure
Students will wrap up what they are working and get all the images scanned into the computers. Save it as their last name. Once they are done the teacher will get all the digital image files now and insert them into the school photograph. This should only take the teacher 5 minutes to do. While this is happening the students will have time to experiment with Photoshop. After the collaborative piece is finished
Critique
The finished digital image will be projected on the wall in a large format. The students will gather around and we will discuss the end product of our collaboration. We will talk about how they fill about having a collaborative piece of artwork.
Extension
For early finishers they experiment on Photoshop and experiment with the program.
Vocabulary
Silhouette/cutout-is a view of an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior
Collaborative art- a process where two or more people organization and work together toward one piece of artwork. Everyone contributes to the work of art.
Digital art - most commonly refers to art created on a computer in digital form
Collage-is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblege of different forms, thus creating a new whole
Time Budget 45-min class
(At the end of the last class, the homework assignment will be to bring in images with them in it with people they like or places they like.)
10 min Opening Discussion & Demonstration
10 min Coloring in your image, choose one
10 min Scanning Images
5 min Save file
5 min Experiment with Photoshop
5 min Project Large digital Collaborative Image and have discussion
Resources
How-to-Photograph-Silhouettes
Delicious Links
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