P1  Where We are in Place and Time              P1 students explored the role of animals and nature and their influence on an artist/culture.  With a lens on the Pacific Northwest Indians as well as the Pueblo peoples, children made collages, watercolor paintings and pinch pots.  We explored the types of color palettes and what may have influenced them, such as water or the cliff dwellings.  Why are the lines curvy or with sharp edges?  Why the use of turquoise versus earth tones? 

E1A  How the World Works     Connecting with transportation, perspective has changed over time to meet the needs of the artist.  Beginning with overlapping, then foreshortening, followed by one point perspective, our students have explored various ways artists create the illusion of depth and three dimensionality on a two dimensional surface.

MYP:  Area of Interaction:  Human Ingenuity

MY2  Unit Question:  How has art changed over time?  Signficant Concept:  Change is a constant. 

Students have been asked to ponder and reflect on a theory entitled the "pendulum of change" and how it applies to architecture and the visual arts.  For example does art seem to gradually become more complex or more abstracted until it reaches a point at which the pendulum swings the entire way back to the beginning in which simplicity and realism returns?