Making a Math Connection

In order to support the NECAP testing, my art lesson had a strong math connection during the first months of school.
Concepts reinforced were:
Straight lines and shapes made with these lines
Shape and area, Form and Volume
Geometric vs. Organic Shapes

Making connections with other disciplines also meets the Visual Arts Content Standard #6

Please enjoy the beautiful artwork the students made:

Horizontal and Vertical Line Designs

Second grade students made these designs after studying the work of the artist, Mondrian. Mondrian's art is non-representational. He designed his work using only horizontal and vertical lines (not diagonal) and a primary color scheme.

This was definitely a challenge for the students!!!

Featured Artist: Nathaniel

Featured Artist: Andrew

Sculptural CUBES

Fourth grade students made comparisons between SHAPE (flat, two-dimensional) and FORM (three-dimensional, volume).

Math concepts were stressed in this lesson.

Featured Artist: Cody

Featured Artist: Braydon

Geometric and Organic Shapes

Third grade students learned the difference between geometric and organic shapes and then used these shapes to create these colorful designs.

Featured Artist: Hunter

Featured Artist: Matthew

SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS

Studying and creating visual images helps students to learn about spatial relationships - how objects relate to one another in space.
Through the study of landscapes, first and third grade students are learning about foreground, middleground and background, and how artists create the illusion of space in a picture.

Learning about Foreground and Background

First graders learned how to draw "monster finger trees" in this landscape lesson.
Their goal was to make one tree look like it was in the foreground and one tree look like it was in the background.

Featured Artist: Nicholas














Featured Artist: Grace












Ask a first grade student what "special tool" we used to add the leaves to the trees.

Landscape Collage

Third grade students are learning more about spatial relationships through the art technique of COLLAGE.
Because collage is made by layering shapes of paper to build an image, students are challenged to think backwards by building their image from the background to the foreground.



Featured Artist: Alexi













Featured Artist: Adrianna