Arts in the Schools
ACHF Arts Education
This will help the students get a hands-on learning experience that goes beyond the classroom. This will give the students a chance to work on the wheel before they get to ninth grade and it becomes a voluntary class. It gives the students a chance to have the steps of the wheel become concrete in their mind when they create. Hand building with these instructors gives them an opportunity to see another form of hand build than what they are used to. Students can do a project that can they use this learning as a scaffold of building for their next task. Students will be assessed visually. I will be there to see the progress of students that are creating these clay projects. On the Wheel: Are they able to center? Do they have control of the wheel? Do they understand the steps? Are students using the tools in the right manner? Hand Build: Are they following the correct steps to make this project? Can they use the tools to achieve what they want? Students will fill out Know, Wonder, and Learn sheets. Know and Wonder will be filled out 2 days before they leave and Learn will be filled out the day after they return.
When the students saw the different artists' work they were so interested in it that they began to ask if we could do this kind of different media work also. It was so well shown that the students are still talking about lessons to incorporate some of these into the classroom.