High/Middle School

high school Lesson plans

Mon, Oct.28/ Friday,Nov.1

Ink Scape
Tinker Cad. Students are introduced to Inkscape, a vector imagery open source drawing program. Students will download portable version onto their laptop. Portable does not require user rights and is located in students ‘drive access’. Inkscape is similar to similar to Tinkercad in Open web concept without the capability to save automatically. Students will navigate the program, use universal commands to copy, save, undo and group. Students will work exclusively with the Bezier line tool which allows for easy manipulation of line and nodes.

Art I
Keith Haring, ‘Properties of Design’. Students will study specific works by graffiti artist Keith Haring and pay close attention to his use of the properties of design; such as unity, emphasis and balance. Students will develop their own property of design composition and fill in with their choice of media, (color pencil/paint/oil pastel/etc.) Students looking to research Keith Haring (on own) be aware that some works by Haring can be considered offensive.

8th Grade
Graphite Cut-Away
Students will find a photo or picture of ‘high value’ and cut a part off that they will redraw using a graphite pencil. Students will use the cut-away as a resource for their value range and outline contour. Pencil strokes should be completely removed; multiple layers of graphite aid in dark values. Students are reminded to work the top layer of bond (draw lightly) and not drive graphite into the paper.

Art 7th Grade
Isometric/3D Object Paint
Students and will work in shade, tint and tone when painting a 3 dimensional object. Students will begin with isometric cube and follow up with a cylinder and sphere. Students will mix the appropriate amount of black, white and grey to a single chosen color. Students will place values in the correct location that will make their subject (cube) pop out. We will discuss how we use values to aid in 3 dimensional design.

Mon, Oct.21/ Friday,Oct.25

Industrial Design
Tinker Cad. Students will construct a Lego character (to scale) on Tinker Cad. Students will construct each individual part on the program, (head, hand, torso, hip, leg and arm). Final product will resemble a Lego character in exact scale. All parts and pieces will connect to each other (exactly like a Lego toy character.)

Art I
Keith Haring, ‘Properties of Design’. Students will study specific works by graffiti artist Keith Haring and pay close attention to his use of the properties of design; such as unity, emphasis and balance. Students will develop their own property of design composition and fill in with their choice of media, (color pencil/paint/oil pastel/etc.) Students looking to research Keith Haring (on own) be aware that some works by Haring can be considered offensive.

8th Grade
Graphite Cut-Away
Students will find a photo or picture of ‘high value’ and cut a part off that they will redraw using a graphite pencil. Students will use the cut-away as a resource for their value range and outline contour. Pencil strokes should be completely removed; multiple layers of graphite aid in dark values. Students are reminded to work the top layer of bond (draw lightly) and not drive graphite into the paper.

Art 7th Grade
Isometric Object Draw.
Students are introduced to, and will explore basic commands and form manipulation in Tinker Cad. Tinker Cad is an open source, open web technology, 3D software program. We use Tinker Cad to construct 3D objects. The 3D objects are then uploaded to Dremel and eventually printed on our 3D printer. Students will learn how to flip, rotate, scale and remove parts of forms as well as group, elevate, and extrude.