After I read aloud the book What’s the Weather? by Shelley Rotner (Penguin Random House, 2021), I introduce students to the work of artist Tokujin Yoshioka, who creates installation art about weather and the forces of nature. Students then create a crayon-resist watercolor painting of themselves outside doing their favorite activity in their favorite kind of weather. The lesson ends with students sharing their work and completing a prompt about their favorite season and weather.
Art teachers share lessons that focus on media arts, digital processes, and new technologies. Students design and develop meaningful side-scrolling video games, learn light painting techniques to capture long-exposure photographs, turn 2D drawings into 3D-printed models, create a digital floral folk-art piece inspired by their heritage, and more.
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