Getting Wired

Author: Dana Twigg
Date Created: 9/6/2001 10:23:57 PM

VITAL INFORMATION
Subject(s):
  Art

Topic or Unit of Study:
  3d Figure sculpture

Grade/Level:
  7

Objective:
  The students will study body proportions and apply their findings in a sculpture project with themselves as the theme

Summary:
  After a brief study of body proportions and wire sculpture basics, the students will create a figure about 8" tall of themselves using wire and tissue paper.

IMPLEMENTATION
Learning Context:
  This lesson introduces the grade level to the area of sculpture in our course of study. The concepts of form, volume, and spacial relationships are stressed as well as theme, body awareness, and the manipulation of materials in a proper manner.

Procedure:
  After a discussion of body awareness, the students will sketch themselves in at least 3 activities that they enjoy. These sketches should display body positions common to the activities shown. Then, in a step by step process, the students will create a basic figure, which stands on it's own, using wire as demonstrated by the instructor. When completed the students will add to the figure additional details such as hats, sports equipment, or props. When the wire creation is finished, the open spaces of the project are then covered one section at a time with tissue paper to give the piece a feeling of mass and the details that make it fit the theme intended. The final result is sealed with polymer to give it strength and put on display.

Sample Student Products:
  Attachments:
   1.  Wire Sculpture
Esmerelda and cat
   2.  Wire Sculpture
Hand Glider

Collaboration:
  Students will work collaboratively & individually. Students will work in groups of 1.

Time Allotment:
  7 class periods. 40 Min. per class.

Author's Comments & Reflections:
  This lesson has proven to show students interests and dreams that the have for their future.

MATERIALS AND RESOURCES
Instructional Materials:
  Art History reports on related artists add enrichment to the sculpture activity. Related artists include: Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder
  Attachments:
   1.  Art Report Form
   2.  jr Project sheet.doc

Resources:
  
  • The students will be allowed to see prior years wire solutions that are displayed in the art room web-site:
    ArtWorksPlus.net
  • The number of computers required is 2.
  • Software titles required:
    Internet Explorer, Netscape
  • Non-Technology Resources Used:
    Wire
    Tissue Paper
    Gloss Polymer
    handouts
    Blackboard

  • Students Familiarity with Software Tool:
    Very familiar

STANDARDS & ASSESSMENT
Standards:
  
Pennsylvania Academic Standards
• Subject : Arts and Humanities (Proposed)
• Area 9.1: Production, Performance and Exhibition
• Grade : Grade 8
 Standard A.: Know and use the elements and principles of each art form to create works in the arts and humanities.
•Elements
Dance: energy/ force, space, time
Music: duration, intensity, pitch, timbre
Theatre: scenario, script/ text, set design
Visual Arts: color, form/ shape, line, space, texture, value
•Principles
Dance: choreography, form genre, improvisation, style, technique
Music: composition, form, genre, harmony, rhythm, texture
Theatre: balance, collaboration, discipline, emphasis, focus, intention, movement, rhythm, style, voice
Visual Arts: balance, contrast, emphasis/ focal point, movement/ rhythm, proportion/ scale, repetition, unity/ harmony
 Standard B.: Incorporate and synthesize knowledge of elements, principles, theories, materials, tools and skills to create and compose, review and revise original works in the arts.
 Standard E.: Communicate a unifying theme or point of view through the production of works in the arts.
 Standard H.: Demonstrate and maintain materials, equipment and tools safely.
•Analyze the use of materials.
•Explain issues of cleanliness related to the arts.
•Explain the use of mechanical/ electrical equipment.
•Demonstrate how to work in selected physical. space/ environment.
•Demonstrate the selection of safe props/ stage equipment.
•Demonstrate methods for storing materials in the arts


Assessment plan:
  The students will be graded on the sketches created in the development of their figure topic.(Homework grade)
The students will be graded on the manipulation of the basic figure and it's ability to stand on it's own.(Homework grade)
The students will be graded on the final presentation when the tissue paper is added and the project is sealed in polymer.(Project grade)

Rubrics:
  Attachments:
   1.  Art Class
rubric for art Classes