First Lesson Plan: Learning the Ropes

Students Romeo Finley, Robert Burns, and DeeJay Dallas with their piece Rivals

 Lesson: Weather and Seasons

Teaching Team: Molly Halback, Valerie Izquierdo, Kayla Pournazarian

Objective: To teach first graders the meaning of weather and seasons. By the end of this lesson, they will understand the visual transformation in nature/temperature as seasons change.


Materials: Recycled materials outside the classroom from courtyard- specifically leaves, flower, dirt, sticks, scrap paper. Encourage students to use imagination when selecting items. 


Activity: As a class, we will go into the courtyard of school and collect three items each.  Before we go outside, we will explain an example for each season so they get the idea. Bring back to the classroom, and divide into “buckets” of spring, fall, summer, winter. If there is an item that can fit into two buckets, students can explain their thoughts and allow for discussion. 



Assessment: Lay materials out and have them associate the item with a season. The answer doesn’t have to be “right” as long as they explain the logic correctly behind their categorization.



 Lesson: Friendly Trash


Teaching Team: Natalie Kiboneka, Melissa Marion, Olivia Steinberg, and Rachel Westhoff.
  • Objective
    • To teach 3rd graders to think outside the box by turning trash into something that is environmentally friendly 
  • Materials 
    • A leaf
    • A reusable water bottle
    • A plastic straw 
    • A backpack
  • Activity
    • Kids will be told to go outside and pick up items from the environment that could be used as a real environmentally friendly product (ex: leaf straw, etc)
    • They will then come back into the classroom and be asked to assemble their environmentally friendly product using the materials
    • They will then share with the class what they collected and what their product is 
  • Assessment 
    • Following the activity, they make more environmentally friendly decisions when it comes to plastics
  • Age Group
    • 3rd graders
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Summary

How artists transform everyday objects | Modern Art & Ideas

After watching a video on how to turn objects into art, students met with their groups to work on creating a lesson plan based on the activity they experienced the previous class.  Their collection of readymades and found-objects in order to put together an art installation, served as reference for their lesson planning.  Their lesson-plans had an objective, a list of materials, a learning activity and an assessment.

Ideas Addressed
  Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, Outdoor Learning Activities, Fine Motor Skills,

 

 

 

Comments

  1. Molly HalbachNovember 20, 2019 at 1:21 PM

    If teaching in a classroom without resources, this would be an awesome way to keep students engaged while teaching them how to use materials in creative ways. I liked the group that used a trashcan to demonstrate recycling. Since most classrooms have a garbage bin, this would be a cool way to demonstrate the lesson to my students as an example in the future.

    -Molly Halbach

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  2. ArtlanderDecember 9, 2019 at 4:11 AM

    It is so important to teach children that creativity is their best resource. It is also important for teachers to know that empowering children to use their creativity opens the door to unlimited resources like found objects, readymades, garbage, etc.

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