Aliens & Abstracts
Project Description
Phase 1: In pairs, students draw pictures of aliens, then write descriptive paragraphs. The descriptions are posted on class websites. The receiving students draw from the descriptive paragraphs, and those drawings are scanned and posted on class websites. Students then compare original drawings with “second generation” drawings from the other class to assess their own skill at descriptive writing.
Phase 2: Through the same process, students describe a work of modern abstract expressionism. Written descriptions are posted on class websites, and receiving students attempt to duplicate the art works from the descriptions. Second generation paintings are compared to the original works for detail and accuracy.
Student Outcomes
- Writing
- Write a well-planned and interesting paragraph with sufficient detail
- Present information clearly
- Present a picture or express a feeling with vivid sensory detail
- Edit own and others’ work for quality and mechanics
- Use the computer as a writing tool
- Persevere through the writing process
- Evaluate own writing and personal progress
- Reading
- Extract the main idea or theme from a text
- Use prior knowledge/experience and context to make predictions and draw conclusions and inferences
- Art
- Identify and describe visual qualities that exist in significant works of art
- Show refined skill and knowledge when solving artistic problems and expressing ideas and views in original works of art
- Technology
- Keyboarding
- Word processing
- Graphics manipulation (scanning, editing)
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