Art teachers share lessons that use apps, smartphones, tablets, digital cameras, 3D printers, and more. Many of the lessons in this issue contain both a digital and hands-on component. Students sculpt clay figures and bring them to life using stop-motion animation, collaborate to create and animate posable cardboard monsters based on emotions, use a 3D modeling app and 3D printer to create geometric accessories, and more.
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Art teachers integrate additional disciplines into their lessons to encourage experimentation, collaboration, and creativity. Middle-school students explore the microscopic world of bacteria and render oil pastel drawings of their findings, young students create low-relief jellyfish sculptures in a marine biology and paleontology-fueled lesson, elementary students experiment with acids and bases to dye and print on fabric, high-school students study the field of medical illustration, and more.
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Art teachers develop a variety of lessons that encourage students to become independent and confident artists. High-school students learning remotely create image portfolios documenting their experiences during the 2020 pandemic, middle-school students choose a personal color scheme and create magnetic baking-pan portraits, young students use popular toy bricks in a colorful printmaking activity, an art teacher explores the various items in their pantry to create paint alternatives, and more.
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Art teachers share a variety of lessons that encourage community building, choice, and student engagement. The lessons in this issue provide a high level of choice for students learning from home, and may encourage collaboration among family members as well. Students learn to be resourceful while using everyday materials to create bound sketchbooks; use reference photographs to complete a still-life drapery study at home; experiment with line printing using corrugated cardboard; and more.
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Art teachers take unique approaches to incorporate different levels of choice in their lessons. Students are given the freedom to choose a theme and create mixed-media self-portraits, envision and illustrate their inner positive and negative critics, collect found objects and arrange their own I Spy-inspired compositions, use tape to create murals that evoke a sense of community in a temporary space, and more.
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Art teachers motivate students to explore the powers of the digital age in a variety of lessons that focus on movement, film, animation, and illusion. Students use animation apps to create original characters and short videos, design and construct brightly lit “moving pictures” from spinning image panels, assemble sculptures that suggest movement and harmony, and more.
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Art teachers provide opportunities for students to learn about, respond to, and create contemporary art. Students investigate the work of artists Tyree Guyton, Nam June Paik, and Ruben Guadalupe Marquez, explore surrealism and create otherworldly digital photomontages, assemble three-dimensional plywood portraits, and more.
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Art teachers share their STEAM efforts through a variety of powerful interdisciplinary lessons. Students experiment with electroluminescent lights, collaborate with science students to engineer moving mechanical insects, use natural materials to create colorful inks, explore surface tension with paper marbling, and much more.
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Art teachers explore creative ways to teach design thinking concepts in a variety of media. Students observe a sculpture at an art museum and get inspired to create imaginative oversized coin reliefs, design and develop functional fashion accessories, deconstruct the classic color wheel to create contemporary compositions, design coordinated logos and business cards for an original restaurant, and more.
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Art teachers explore lessons that encourage the development of kindness and empathy. Students express the concept of home and shelter through painted umbrellas, practice mindfulness in a variety of lessons inspired by artists such as Nick Cave and Yayoi Kusama, sculpt clay luminaries for a positive cause, collaborate with a visiting artist to wheat-paste messages of love and positivity, and more.
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