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标题：Studio Art
作者：Waldman, Neil
期刊名称：Teaching Pre K-8
印刷版ISSN：0891-4508
出版年度：2005
卷号：Mar 2005
出版社：Early Years, Inc.

Studio Art

Waldman, Neil

Project One: Drawing

(Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays - 10 minutes)

Goal: This project will develop hand and eye coordination, increase observation of our environment and ourselves and is one of the first steps in learning how to draw. The entire lesson takes about 10 minutes.

Using pencil, students are instructed to spend two minutes drawing their left hands (lefties should draw their right hands). After two minutes, ask your students to move their left hands into a new position and spend two minutes drawing them again. Emphasize that the drawing should take the full two minutes. Have the children repeat the process five times in total.

When five drawings are completed, the students place them in an envelope which is then sealed, signed, dated and passed to you.

Project Two: Designing

(Tuesdays and Thursdays - 10 - 15 minutes)

Goal: Each person has a special and unique sense of design. This is apparent in the clothing we choose and the ways in which we decorate our homes. This project will enhance the development of students' sense of design by repeatedly placing choices of color, shape and position before them. With each choice, the student gradually develops his or her sense of what appears pleasing, discordant or even beautiful.

Ask students to bring empty shoe boxes to school on the first Tuesday of the month. Provide them with sheets of colored construction paper and then ask the students to shred the sheets to fill the shoebox.

Next, you should distribute sheets of black paper (8'' x 10'') and have your students remove shreds of colored paper, one at a time and place them on the black paper in the most aesthetically pleasing design he or she can think of. After about five minutes, the children can then return the shredded paper to the box and repeat the process for another five minutes.

On Thursday, after the second five minutes, students should glue the shreds to the black paper, sign them and hand in their unique creation to you.

Hold up each design one by one or display in front of the class and ask the author to explain their project.

The final step is to display the designs on your bulletin board.