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Color Mixing Scientists

3/1/2018

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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Monochromatic Fish

5/17/2016

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This science and art lesson designed for 1st graders teaches:

monochromatic painting (one color painting)
tints (mixing paint with white)
shades (mixing paint with black)
visual texture (drawn over dry paint in marker)
parts of a fish (science vocabulary)

The lesson (a step-by-step powerpoint) is available for download on TpT. Here is a link. You can also view students' finished examples from our online art gallery on Artsonia here. Here is a post from Mrs. Gutterman using Henri Matisse's Goldfish painting as inspiration.

Optional books for a literacy connection:

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, by Dr. Seuss
Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

And here is our Monochromatic Fugleflick to quickly introduce to your students the concept of a one-color painting with tints and shades to create contrast:

Monochromatic from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Variation on this Lesson (Rainbow Fish):

Instead of using a monochromatic paint palette, students could use a combination of metallic paints and paint markers to make their fish much like Rainbow Fish. View the gallery of first grade fish paintings here.

Add the correct terms for the parts of the fish to reinforce vocabulary and science concepts. Use this sheet as a reference.

Digital Extension:

After the first graders made their fish paintings we erased the backgrounds and saved them as PNG (to retain the transparency of their backgrounds). Then students put them in the DoInk Animation app to make them swim.

Make it Then Move it Fish from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Paper Circuits add STEAM to Learning

7/11/2014

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My STEAM logo drawn in Brushes and animated in DoInk on the iPad

During the last school year or so I've been seeing many examples of tinkering, maker spaces, and other science infused projects showcased at conferences and online. I'm very interested in trying to find project ideas that are a good fit for my 45 minute elementary art classes, will not compromise the art-making experience, and embed science concepts. I've lots of ideas but one place I want to begin is with paper circuits. See this resource.

I hacked into an old LED flashlight, grabbed some copper wire and tried to learn about making a very simple circuit. It is very exciting to see the LED light up after making all the right connections. My next task was to think about the art that this LED could light up.

This project will fund our Paper Circuit Robot painting. Click above to see my supply list & full description. Please consider donating.

It's hard to explain how excited I was to play with paper circuits. I designed and painted a STEAM poster and lit it up all in one day. I dreamed of LEDs all night until I came up with this project idea that I think will be a great way for me to introduce circuits and art concepts combined: a light up robot painting. I wrote this Donor's Choose project to get the supplies needed.

1. Design/paint a symmetrical robot on foam core with the illusion of depth using shapes, color balance, & metallic paints. Include a center circle.

2. Flip over the art, gently punch holes through the eyes for LEDs, remove a circle in the center for battery, build a circuit. Insert battery in circle.

3. Build & attach a small flap on the top edge over the battery from the front of the robot. The copper tape conducts electricity and closes the circuit when the flap closes.

Animation of the Paper Circuit Robot with light up LED eyes from a circuit built on the back.

UPDATE: see my light up paper circuit robot painting! http://drydenart.weebly.com/fugleblog/light-up-robots-with-paper-circuits

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Fairy Evidence

8/13/2013

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Fairy Evidence animated in DOINK app

Yesterday I watched a video of Lydia, the Fairy Scientist, who is on a mission to find evidence to support her hypothesis that fairies exist. This adorable video shared on Pernille Ripp's blog and tweeted to me by @bmuench is about the scientific method.

As an art teacher who loves to infuse technology, I thought I would add STEAM to this STEM lesson by creating fairy evidence via a drawing/animation app on the iPad.

I drew this two frame animated fairy in DOINK on the iPad. (Fairies get their energy from pastel colors, so I used a bunch of them).

Then I created a composition in DOINK where I brought in a photo from my garden (fairies like flowers) and drew a path for her to travel over it.

@greeneyegal

I have evidence of other fairies drawn using drawing apps like sketchbook express on the iPad. These are made in the likeness of friends from my PLN. Click the fairies to see their twitter accounts.

@tiedemania

If you decide to draw your fairy in a drawing app instead of DOINK, you would need to save it as a PNG with a transparent background. There is a very convenient app for this called Superimpose (.99) I have been playing with this app to think of new uses for the other tools and stumbled on this idea. I made a silhouette of my fairy drawing by inverting the masking tool and layering black as a background. That sounds hard, but it was just a few clicks, really. I finished off the image in SketchbookX where I added a phrase ala the old iTunes/iPod ads from apple.

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Color Mixing Scientists

Monochromatic Fish

Variation on this Lesson (Rainbow Fish):

Digital Extension:

Paper Circuits add STEAM to Learning

Fairy Evidence

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