Technology Based Lesson Plans and Resources: This page is devoted to the integration of technology as a medium for art making.
Digital Camera/ Visual Culture:
In this series of art related lessons, students use the digital camera to identify important aspects within their personal visual cultures. Many contemporary artists focus on ordinary everyday encounters. In particular, Mark Lewis sets up his camera and records a specific moments in time where life unfolds. Students are asked to transform, document, and discuss the visual imagery that they collect during this series of lesson plans. Lesson Guide Link.
The Photograph and the Landscape:
In this series of lessons, students use a multi-media approach to construct a familiarity with the landscape. In the first exercise, students create a timeline of artists who have used the landscape to conceptually create a dialogue with their viewer. In the second exercise, students create an actual landscape painting from a sketch that they create from being outdoors. In the third exercise, students are engaged with the photograph as a way of capturing the landscape. Throughout these exercises, students consider formal elements such as cropping, composition, and harmony. Lesson Guide Link.
An Oldy but Goody:
The Museum of Modern Art offers an interactive demonstration on the various types of printmaking that could be used as a SMART Board activity in your classroom. Link to Experience.
Conceptual Photography:
The Hub for Bright Minds offers a way to integrate photography into classrooms. In the exercise, students learn the importance of making choices with the camera to conceptualize the idea. Link to Site.
Foldable Instructional Strategy:
In this lesson, students learn to make a very complex foldable that could be used as an instructional strategy to teaching a variety of topics. Link to Site.
Creating a Stop Motion Animation Movie:
Inspired by Oliver Herring, students create a stop motion animation from scratch. Students take on the roles of actors, producers, directors, set design, etc. Link to Oliver Herring. Link to Stop Motion How-To. (Mute the Sound)
Exploring Light:
In this lesson, students create drawings from looking through a pin hole cut from a black piece of paper. The lesson is inspired by James Turrell's manipulation of light and space. Link to Images of Artist's Using Light to Create Art. Pin Hole Lesson. Link to Short James Turrell YouTube.
Digital Camera/ Visual Culture:
In this series of art related lessons, students use the digital camera to identify important aspects within their personal visual cultures. Many contemporary artists focus on ordinary everyday encounters. In particular, Mark Lewis sets up his camera and records a specific moments in time where life unfolds. Students are asked to transform, document, and discuss the visual imagery that they collect during this series of lesson plans. Lesson Guide Link.
The Photograph and the Landscape:
In this series of lessons, students use a multi-media approach to construct a familiarity with the landscape. In the first exercise, students create a timeline of artists who have used the landscape to conceptually create a dialogue with their viewer. In the second exercise, students create an actual landscape painting from a sketch that they create from being outdoors. In the third exercise, students are engaged with the photograph as a way of capturing the landscape. Throughout these exercises, students consider formal elements such as cropping, composition, and harmony. Lesson Guide Link.
An Oldy but Goody:
The Museum of Modern Art offers an interactive demonstration on the various types of printmaking that could be used as a SMART Board activity in your classroom. Link to Experience.
Conceptual Photography:
The Hub for Bright Minds offers a way to integrate photography into classrooms. In the exercise, students learn the importance of making choices with the camera to conceptualize the idea. Link to Site.
Foldable Instructional Strategy:
In this lesson, students learn to make a very complex foldable that could be used as an instructional strategy to teaching a variety of topics. Link to Site.
Creating a Stop Motion Animation Movie:
Inspired by Oliver Herring, students create a stop motion animation from scratch. Students take on the roles of actors, producers, directors, set design, etc. Link to Oliver Herring. Link to Stop Motion How-To. (Mute the Sound)
Exploring Light:
In this lesson, students create drawings from looking through a pin hole cut from a black piece of paper. The lesson is inspired by James Turrell's manipulation of light and space. Link to Images of Artist's Using Light to Create Art. Pin Hole Lesson. Link to Short James Turrell YouTube.