Tricia Fuglestad's Blog

For the past year I've been working on packaging up my STEAM ART lessons in accessible formats for teachers to use with their students. They are all in the TpT Fuglefun Store. There are traditional lessons, animation lessons, lego murals, science integrated, math integrated, history integrated, literacy integrated, games, activities, augmented reality, green screen, and so much more from my art room to your library, classroom, remote academy, or home. Check them out here: bit.ly/fuglefunstore

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Teacher Appreciation Week Sale!

5/2/2022

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explore the fuglefun store

Hang in there, teachers! We're almost done. Let me help you with some (fugle)fun and engaging lessons resources. Treat yourself and your students while saving 25% off with the coupon code THANKYOU22 on May 3rd and 4th. EXPLORE NOW.

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Fugleflicks Interactive eBook is Available

1/7/2022

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Download the Interactive Fugleflicks eBook featuring 48 award-winning student created films

Award-Winning Student-Created, Art-Related Videos for Kids by KidsThis interactive eBook features 48 movies that will delight you and your students. They are short, engaging, musical masterpieces loaded with creativity to teach kids something educational in an engaging way.

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UNDO: What if life had an undo button?

1/28/2019

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Poster Image for UNDO Fugleflick

A group of 12 5th grade Fugleflick filmmakers created an original musical video demonstrating how wonderful an undo button would be in real life.
They chose to illustrate in magical ways the benefits of an undo button in art room related situations.

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Redefining the Art Room

4/15/2018

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My transdigital approach to art education merges both traditional and digital methods across physical and digital spaces while giving students an opportunity to dive into ideas that were previously beyond what I could otherwise offer. Take a peek at the lessons I designed to help redefine learning for my elementary art students.

Redefining the Art Room from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Links to Lessons Showcased in Video:

Animating Ourselves with Stop Motion
Carousel Horse Paintings that students rode and animated digitally
Black History Lego Mural (in my background as I spoke)
Rotoscope in a Retro Mutoscope using digital art and Flipbookits
Keith Haring Paintings and Stop Motion Animation
Penguin Clay Sculptures and Stop Motion Animations
Bedroom at Arl(ington Heights) based on Van Gogh's Art
Green Screen FX: Spin, Jump, Fall into/out of Art
Haunted Custom Holograms: flipbook animation, rotation, and prism
Animated Glow drawn profile view and animated aliens
Make it Then Move it Patterned Figure Animations
Color Mixing Scientists Bubble Animations
Magic Carpets over Landmarks of the US art, green screen video & stop motion
Progression Animation of snowmen in stages interacting with animator's hand
Don't Crush My Dreams Student-Created Art-Related Fugleflick
Try Your Best, Fugleflick about Growth Mindset
Strange Magic Paper Cut stop motion animation
Creating Media for Learning, contributed to book, AR of Fuglelflick
Allow Us to Illustrate, Fugleflick about visual literacy and the role of illustration
View our award-winning Fugleflicks and those screened at film festivals
View all 225+ STEAM art Lessons from this one link

Click image to view over 225 STEAM ART Lessons

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Color Mixing Scientists

3/1/2018

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UPDATE: I just packaged up this transdigital lesson to include all the step by step visuals for creating the painting as well as creating the animated bubbles over the painting . You can find it here: Color Mixing Bubbling Beakers

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IAEA17 Conference Reflections

12/3/2017

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My Presentations:

iPad Animation iDeas that Teach Concepts Dynamically

See this blog post dedicated to this presentation including a thinglink (also below) with links to each project featured. Use this link to view all STEAM art lessons.

Owning the Learning with Fugleflicks
Find all the movies featured in this presentation on my Fugleflicks page.
Or download the Fugleflick Scan Book to share them with your students independently

Below is a PDF of each slide of my presentation.

Things I learned or want to learn...

The Keynote from Deborah Smith-Shank reminded me not to be a Dragon in the art room (Drawn in Brushes Redux while listening to stories of Dragon Art Teachers who kill creativity and joy)

Art teacher Emily Fiedler shared her 1:1 tech ideas in a packed room

Here is her entire presentation (yeah!)
Resources I want to explore:

I caught a portion of Frank Bush's session that included a DIY Ukulele where his student assembled, painted, then learned to play their own Ukulele.
I loved this idea of combining art and music. Made my purchase already.

Update: I made a plan for how I'm going to paint my Ukulele when it arrives.

Update: finished over winter break!

I was really inspired by the project Megan Idell presented inspired by street artist, INSA who made Gif-iti art coupled with augmented reality. See some examples.

GIF-iti, animated street #art by @INSALAND. Excellent stuff! https://t.co/wg0lPQDArH pic.twitter.com/XZMbmFNVdm
— Sebastian Groebner (@SGroebner) November 12, 2017

I attended Kevin Fogelson's Fractal session and learned about some cool resources for creating fractals as art. I think I can use this video to teach about trees differently.

STEAM Playground

I demonstrated how to make a custom animated hologram. Here are my resources.

I had a chance to explore Susan Tiemstra's station with CreoPop 3D Pens. I took pictures of the creations people left behind. She said it is non-toxic heated ink cured with LEDs.

I practiced glitch art after talking it over with Justin Bickus at bit. He had a great suggestion. Take one file and open it in Text Edit and then open it again in Preview. This way when you change the code you can see the changes refresh in the photo.

original image

Glitched with deletions and secret messages

Two Award Winners:

My former student teacher Matthew Etherington (who helped design this amazing lesson) won the IAEA Young Professional Award and my student Jessica was one of 40 artists honored for her artwork that was chosen for the year-long traveling IAEA Student Art Show. Find out more here.

Congrats to my former student teacher

Congrats to Jessica

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Fugleflick Art Bot

11/27/2017

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A group of young engineers, computer programers, and artists gathered in the art room during lunch recesses for a couple months to see what they could make using a Hyperduino, old computer, some cardboard, LEDs, touch pads, and creativity. The results of the collaboration is called a Fugleflick Art Bot. It is an interactive art piece that plays 5 different student-created, art-related movies when you touch a button on the computer screen in its belly with audio coming through the speaker (mouth). The lights are on a circuit made from copper wire and batteries connected to two LED lights behind 3-D glasses. The switch is built into the nose.

Below is a series of photos taken during the creation process. Since we were making discoveries, problem-solving, and working with limited resources, our design changed as we progressed. You'll see the original sketch was for an iPad in the robot belly but then we learned that the hyperduino needed to run in a browser. So, we adapted. The group also changed as we added artists after the engineers wired up the robot. They helped make the robot have a unified design with balanced colors with a brass brad motif.

Interview

We created a youtube playlist for the Fugleflick bot. You can explore the five Fugleflick movies that it is programed to play here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS4LIonCAPBfr0enREOu6HH9BQPf6JaGf
Explore all our Fugleflicks here.

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Keith Haring Paintings

10/12/2016

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2nd grade action pose paintings in the style of Keith Haring

Click to download this template from TPT

This 2nd grade lesson introduces students to the artwork of Keith Haring. He made colorful painting with figures in action poses. I use this artwork to teach very basic figure drawing, complementary colors, primaries and secondary colors, action/ movement, positive/negative space, line pattern, and shape pattern. We begin by drawing poses using the help of a template students cut out and assemble by themselves. This template allows them to play with poses then trace the ones they like. Download the template.

1. Draw 4 different action poses using the template and ideas from Keith Haring's art

2. Paint the a primary color in the positive space of figure 1 and negative space figure 4.

3. Paint another primary color in the negative space of figure 2 and positive in figure 3.

4. Paint the complementary secondary color in negative space of fig 1 and positive fig 4.

5. Paint the complementary secondary color in positive space of fig 2 and negative fig 3.

6. Create color balance with line or shape pattern in alternating neg/pos spaces.

Student Work: see gallery here

When students finished their paintings, they looked at them through 3-D glasses to see if the complementary colors made the actions poses even more vibrant.

Click to view the gallery of finished art on artsonia

Finished stop motion animations:

2-2 Stop Motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

2-3 stop motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

MA2 Stop Motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

The fifth graders from 5-1 used the second graders' step up one day and made this:

5-1 Stop Motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

View my elementary school friendly introduction to Keith Haring's art. I added animations from his website and images from his collection.
View it on youtube.

Resources:

Complementary in Every Way from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

View this award winning Fugleflick video, Complementary in Every Way, about how red and green met and fell in love to introduce complementary colors to your elementary students.
View it on vimeo.

Can't Mix for Primaries from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

View this classic Fugleflick to introduce your students to primary and secondary colors. It is set to "Can't buy me love" and comes with subtitles so you can all sing along.
View it on vimeo.

Movement from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

View this Fugleflick to introduce your students to the principal of design, Movement.
View it on vimeo.

Digital Extension: Create it digitally

Try this lesson on the iPad with Wooden Doll app & SketchbookX.

I wrote up a post already about how you can do this whole lesson on the iPad with the help of Wooden Doll app. See the post and much more here.

Digital Warm Up Drawing:

I decided to do a digital warm up between the drawing stage and the painting stage so students could see the effect of complementary colors next to each other and test to see if their figure drawings were shapes that could be filled with color. Students took a photo of their sketch with their iPad in the camera app. Then then used the DoInk Animation App and opened up a new drawing. In the layer tab at the top they used the camera icon to bring in the sketch. Then they scooted the sketch to the bottom layer and made the drawing layer above it active (turns light blue). They chose a paint brush (size 6) and black color to trace their artwork. When they were finished they either deleted the photo layer or moved the opacity to transparent. Then, they used the pour bucket to fill the positive space with a primary color and the negative space with its complement.

Complementary colors: Purple and Yellow

Complementary colors: Red and Green

Complementary colors: Orange and Blue

Photo of student's sketch

Import image of sketch into DoInk. Trace and paint over

When I stacked all the figures with similar colors they created the illusion of movement

Digital Extension: Make and Move

download template from TpT

Stop Motion Animation

Students can use the template over a piece of construction paper and animate the figure against a complementary color background to demonstrate movement dynamically. I use the free app iMotion HD and have student make a short video. 30 images makes a 2 second video at 15 frames per second. I collect the individual videos for one class video.

Tutorial: Make it Move it Figures

Make it Move it Keith Haring Figures from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Two Creative Sprouts Winners!

9/12/2016

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NextVista.org hosts an online video contest for students. They give feedback to filmmakers, have a panel of judges, and encourage students to view their movies around the country. Each video entry teaches a school related concept or lesson in 90 seconds or less. Many of ourFugleflicks have qualified for this contest so we've entered it often.

Last Spring we entered LEARN TO FLY in the teacher made category and MOVEMENT in the collaboration category into their Creative Sprouts contest and WON BOTH!

Congratulations to all the students who helped make these fun and informative videos.