Central Idea: A greater sense of who we are, can enable us to better understand and interact with each other.

Process Outline: 

Grade 5 were challenged to work in teams to create clay mobiles for sale at this year’s service learning Art Auction. Collaborating at each stage of the art process involved envisioning ideas, agreeing upon a theme and design for each part, and assigning roles so each member of the group was included in the planning, design, and creation phase. Students had to consider weight, balance, and how to attach each part of their clay mobile to create their final product.

Central Idea: Being open-minded can help us grow as artists.

Process Outline: 

Students explored ways to process emotions, feelings, and experiences through visual journaling. Exploring various ways to create visual journals, they developed small square artworks to express themselves using mixed-media techniques.  These squares were then developed into "explosion books" (sometimes known as “squash” or “smash books”) to display their process and skills.

Central Idea: Sharing the environment impacts living things.

Process Outline: 

As part of their Sharing the Planet unit, grade 3 sketched ideas for the creation of a clay slab exploring this theme. Selecting their favourite ideas, students manipulated, rolled, and cut local clay into slabs, upon which their designs would feature. Using additive and subtractive methods, they created animals, environments, plants, and connections to the UN Sustainable Development Goals to complete their slabs. Once bisque-fired, they used metallic paints to decorate.

Central Idea: Cultures express creativity in many ways.

Process Outline: 

Connecting to the homeroom unit of inquiry, the students initially did some research to find out which animals in the Vietnamese zodiac represent each of the different members of their family. They sketched each of these animals, and then created a design. After transferring this design onto a press plate, they printed with pink or red to represent the new year, before adding extra drawings to create reduction prints. They printed once more using the second colour of black ink to complete their printing process.