Math with an artistic outcome: early childhood.Significant Problem Experiencing and practicing geometry and the concept of fractions through art-making can be an important key to understanding. From start to finish, kindergartners have total control over the production and division of a whole while creating a meaningful work of art--images of birds. Essential Concepts 1. Using tracing, folding, cutting, and gluing. 2. Transforming shapes, dividing wholes into fractional fractional size expressed as a relative part of a unit. fractional catabolic rate the percentage of an available pool of body component, e.g. protein, iron, which is replaced, transferred or lost per unit of time. parts. 3. Experimenting with placement of parts to create a different whole. Materials 6" (15 cm) construction paper squares, circle templates (plastic lids or masking mask·ing n. 1. The concealment or the screening of one sensory process or sensation by another. 2. An opaque covering used to camouflage the metal parts of a prosthesis. tape rolls), pencils, scissors scissors Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends , glue, markers, 12 x 18" (31 x 46 cm) construction paper sheets Guiding Practice Show students how a circle can be cut from a square using a template. Then fold the circle three times (halves, quarters, eighths). Unfold unfold - inline and cut along the fold lines. Allow time for students to try to reconstruct re·con·struct tr.v. re·con·struct·ed, re·con·struct·ing, re·con·structs 1. To construct again; rebuild. 2. the parts into a whole pie, half pie, etc. Then challenge students to experiment with placement and position to design a bird out of three or four segments. Discuss different ways to represent birds--flying, nesting, pecking, singing, etc. When satisfied with configuration, glue pieces onto background. Use pencils and markers for details such as feet, eyes, grass, etc. Assessing Learning Ask students to explain how these new and very individual pieces of artwork were created. Check to see if they use words like tracing, folding, cutting, gluing, fraction, dividing of a whole or breaking a shape into parts. ClipCard submitted by Darcy M. Swope, an art teacher at The Potomac School in McLean, Virginia McLean is an unincorporated community located in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. A small geographic area along Chain Bridge Road in Arlington County has a 22101 zip code and is also part of McLean. . |
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