For this weeks Wonderlab, we once again let the kindergartners explore and play at stations. We rotated the stations so students could play with and discover new and exciting mediums. The Kindergartners have taken well to being able to play with new things and it keeps them thinking about new possibilities. These opportunities to explore without an end product in mind has resulted in a lot of learning among the students. They are starting to understand the possibilities and limitations of the mediums. Some students have even asked to blend mediums from each station, making the connection that art mediums can work together. Their newly discovered understandings of the mediums have also lend them a hand in expressing themselves when they have something specific in mind they want to create!
Inquiry/Learning Target:
Essential Understandings:
Skills:
- How does playing with new materials allow one to better understand them?
- New mediums and tools lead to new ideas
- Different experimentations lead to different discoveries.
- Artists and designers test different ideas to discover new potentials.
Essential Understandings:
- Artists and designers play, discover, and create with new materials to understand mediums, tools, and creative potential of each.
Skills:
- Listening to instructions
- Sharing materials
- Creative problem solving
- Respecting others
- Cleaning materials
- Taking care of materials
- Keeping items separate from each other
- Keeping area clean
- Taking risks
- Explaining ideas
- Sharing discoveries with others
The students used the tape to explore drawing with the tape on the paper, exploring that this particular color tape could be used to create lines and shapes on the paper. Then exploring with using the markers and drawing on top of the colored tape they drew with to create “a crack in my paper!”
This student thoroughly explained how they made their shape stay together, detailing their thought behind the construction and the logistics of it. "I glued right here, and I put one here, holding, holding, holding, and I put one there... and I made a candy bear cave!" This student exhibited their learning of the materials working together and their understanding of the proper use of glue.
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“Can you tell me what you made?"
“Going though it, it's a snake watching out for it so it doesn’t eat a snake,” “Ya?” “Ya! A snake above it,” This student noticed that if you rolled out the clay it became a coil shape, almost snake like. Then started to add different elements that they associated with snakes out of clay, added these to the surrounding base of the snake. The student explored the 3D features of the clay, being able to build up and seeing how the bend from the material could show an animal and how that could interact around other elements. "How did you get it to stay?" - teacher
"I made it really STABLE." - student This student planned out how to build a taller construction by using the cotton swabs to support each other in a pyramid fashion, troubleshooting the effects of gravity and seemingly defying them. This student later taught two others how too use the cotton balls to add stability and that multiplicity creates a better foundation. |