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| Ceramic Peace Pendant, 8th Grader |
This year I am trying something new. I want to loosen things up a bit in the art room, so I'm going to begin the year with Exploration Stations. I will have six areas set up, each with different media and a focus on a different element or elements of art such as line, color, texture, shape.
I will also have i-pads at most of the stations used to deliver some of the content and provide opportunities for some of the art exercises using drawing apps.
Students will work their way from area to area at their own pace. I know this will appeal to students' desire to be more independent, social and, hopefully, more engaged. I will let you know how it goes!
I like this way of working! Maybe you can publish the different tasks and material or even some results here.
ReplyDeleteI will be happy to post a link to my classroom site with the exploration stations resources just as soon as I finish preparing them! Check back in a day or two.
DeleteI am not an Art teacher and have the task of teaching Art to my 5th graders this year. I teach at a parochial school; our Art/Music teacher is completing her student teaching first semester and will not be covering Art classes. I'm very interested in your idea and would love to find out more about your stations. I love the idea and will begin searching for resources.
DeleteHI Mary,
DeleteI remember being in your position many years ago in California where the regular classroom teacher was responsible for art as well as everything else! I will update information on the stations in a few days. However, it won't be teacher tested yet! I do think stations will work very well for 5th grade. Also, if you can tie your station activities into social studies or science that will help you kill two birds with one stone!