SPECT-ART-ACLES look-think-question

I will be taking my fourth graders on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago in early April. To make the trip more meaningful and engaging, I play three different games to help them become more familiar with the art collection.
One of the games is called SPECT-ART-ACLES. It was inspired by a NAEA presentation I saw a number of years ago about playing games in the art room. My student teacher, Matthew Etherington, helped me put this idea together and customize it for our trip to the Art Institute by making it all about the permanent collection at their museum. 

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We started by purchasing  plastic glasses and hot gluing a popsicle stick to the top with a piece of velcro.  I already had a collection of postcards of art from the Art Institute and used those as our game pieces by adding velcro to the back. These could be designed and printed out on card stock and laminated so they last from year to year. 

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The game board lists each possible choice

of art in the game with Title and Artist

In this introduction video you can play against Matthew and learn how the game works.

This Fugleflick video will help students brush up on their art vocabulary so they can ask good questions like, Am I a landscape? Sculpture? Still Life? Figure drawing? Abstract?

I AM ART from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

For the last bit of class we have the ULTIMATE CHALLENGE ROUND. We spin the digital wheel to see which student from each table will come up and play the game before the whole class. It's an elimination game that reveals our guessing strategies to all.

Published in School Arts Magazine

The May 2018 edition of School Arts Magazine published my article about our game.
View it here.