RATIONALE Why this lesson worthwhile?(reference developmental stage of students, significance to the “Big Idea”, importance of specific skills and knowledge that could be used for other purposes etc.) In years 11-14, adolescents fine motor skills, and motor skills in general, are improving. At times, adolescents can have swift shifts in mood and have dramatic contrasts …
Final Lesson: Zoetropes
This lesson plan was a process for me. I first started out teaching myself how to make a phenakistoscope. Here is a video of examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqwkdlwmHig First, I tried to recreate this example of moving images. GIF of images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66OKd7_iQT8 Here are some videos of my Phenakistoscope in motion. It is spun in front of …
Laser Cut Glasses
My laser cut glasses came as an inspiration from my learning segment in another class, Curriculum and Instruction. I designed a lesson where students would make a personal symbols tag, for a class mural. here's a photo of my design. Learning to use adobe illustrator was pretty easy with the instructor in the lab. I …
3D Printing
I received my 3D printed container from the SUNY New Paltz FabLab. The process I really enjoyed with this project was the virtual designing. I found it very neat that creating geometric and radial designs is precise and easy with TinkerCAD. I didn't get to see the actual printing of my object, but overall it came …
Self Portraits in Clay
The students in the Triform Pottery class have been sculpting ceramic busts since January. In the beginning we focused on creating different parts of our busts. Starting with two pinch bowls that we connected together to make a sphere, we had heads! Next, we started to build up coils in an oval shape for the base …
3D Print Container
For the 3D printer project, I spent a lot of time just messing around on TinkerCad. Here are some examples of where I was figuring out the tools, space and shortcuts. The later versions were different iterations of radial designs I was playing with. For the container project I decided to create a lidded jar …
Motor Hats
In this group project Jane, Victoria, Ally and I decided to create a lesson where students can craft their own practical or imaginative hat with moving parts. Each of us decided to create a different type of hat to show students four examples of hat structures and various ways to connect parts to the motors. …
Moving Image
When I heard the project was going to be "moving image" I immediately thought of a Zoetrope at Art Omi Sculpture Park. Check out Freya Powell if that sounds interesting. So, Jane started looking for images that might work and found this series of clouds split up in a window. While Jane began constructing the wheel, I …
Circuit Card
I created a card in the shape of a bug. I wanted the eye to light up. The card circuit was pretty simple to do with the copper tape. When doing this project I think it would be important to get kids thinking how using the light could create meaning in their work. It's always …
MaKey MaKey
In class our table experimented to use strange and unexpected objects to control our scratch game. We collaboratively decorated a Styrofoam head with pipe cleaners. Then used the controller to move the ball in Taylor's games through the 3 levels. Haley, Taylor, Isa and I Click here for a link to the Final Projects Page, where …
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