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Triple-C Project (Community Contrast Collage)
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Project Abstract
How are we all connected as a community? What do we share as individuals and what makes us different? What is your drive in life?
Students explored these questions visually and verbally during the Triple-C Project. On several different levels students analyzed who they were as individuals and how that contrasts their inherent connection to the community that surrounds them. All of this was done while simultaneously exploring the program Adobe Illustrator for the first time.
What did you teach and how did you teach it?
Decision making through consensus
Translating words into images and vice-versa
Scanning
Adobe Illustrator
Live trace
Layers
Color Palette Editing
Translating Raster to Vector
Critique
Cutting with scissors
What concepts and skills did the students gain in this class through this project?
In addition to the learning goal listed above students worked on the use of art vocabulary to strengthen their communication during the critique process:
Video on Elements used to prompt discussion.
Elements of art:
Texture
Form
Line
Color
Value
Shape
References
Principles of Art
Movement
Unity
Harmony
Variety
Balance
Contrast
Proportion
Pattern/Rhythm
References
How is the curriculum for this project academically rich and grade-level challenging?
This project was grade-level challenging because it met several national based standards for visual arts related to students being able to discuss and demonstrate abstract concepts in relation to art.
Adobe Illustrator is one of the harder graphic software programs to master due to it's highly involved vector computing. Unlike Adobe Photoshop which operates on a easier to understand set of abstract principles, Adobe is a more mathematically based program. Because of this students tend to not learn the program unless they are attending a college Graphic Design class. This makes it an incredibly amazing project for 9th grade students to even be exposed to the software.
To what extent was there integration across disciplines in your class through this project?
Students did have to accomplish basic math skills to complete this project. Students were also asked to write a story that illustrated their personal motivations that included a beginning, middle, and end which allowed for integration of the English Language Arts content standards.
Which Habits of Heart and Mind (HoHM) and Design Principles were utilized in this project?
Habits of the Heart and Mind
Evidence
Perspective
Refinement
Cooperation
Perseverance
Mindfulness
Compassion
Design Principles
Personalization
Common-Intellectual Mission
How did you incorporate refinement through this project?
Students had to accomplish a total of 3 Drafts for this project to be completed. Each was followed by a critique of the assembled puzzle and with this changes were decided by each class about how drafts needed to be changed. Draft examples can be seen at the top of the page.
Student Blogs:
Period 1
Period 2
Period 3
Learning Videos:
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