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8th Grade  Project 2 weeks

Azelea and Leeana's Art Project

Azelea A
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VA:Cn10.1.8a
VA:Pr5.1.8a
VA:Pr6.1.8a
VA:Cr2.1.8a
VA:Cr1.2.8a
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Purpose

You and Leeana will explore how art connects to science by testing color mixes. Color mixes mean different paints blended together. You will create a large color wheel with each mix and real-world science examples. After each mix, record what you changed and what happened. After each session, assess your progress. Use feedback. Retest colors. Revise your wheel and notes. Present the finished display to each other and your teachers. Explain how exhibitions influence ideas.

Learning goals

You can research how color mixing connects to science in everyday life. Color mixing means blending colors to make new ones. You can work with Leeana to make shared choices. That shows good teamwork. After each mix, you can pause and record what you changed and what happened. You can use feedback and session self-assessments to test colors again. You can revise notes and improve your wheel. You can present real-world examples to Leeana and teachers. You can explain how display choices affect viewers.

Standards
  • [National Core Arts Standards] VA:Cn10.1.8a - Make art collaboratively to reflect on and reinforce positive aspects of group identity.
  • [National Core Arts Standards] VA:Pr5.1.8a - Collaboratively prepare and present selected theme-based artwork for display and formulate exhibition narratives for the viewer.
  • [National Core Arts Standards] VA:Pr6.1.8a - Analyze why and how an exhibition or collection may influence ideas, beliefs, and experiences.
  • [National Core Arts Standards] VA:Cr2.1.8a - Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing.
  • [National Core Arts Standards] VA:Cr1.2.8a - Collaboratively shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art and design.
Competencies
  • Collaboration - Students co-design projects with peers, exercise shared-decision making, strengthen relational agency, resolve conflict, and assume leadership roles.
  • Effective Communication - Students practice listening to understand, communicating with empathy, and share their learning through exhibiting, presenting and reflecting on their work.
  • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving - Students consider a variety of innovative approaches to address and understand complex questions that are authentic and important to their communities.
  • Self Directed Learning - Students use teacher and peer feedback and self-reflection to monitor and direct their own learning while building self knowledge both in and out of the classroom.
  • Content Expertise - Students develop key competencies, skills, and dispositions with ample opportunities to apply knowledge and engage in work that matters to them.

Products

Create a color-mixing test log with recipes, changes, results, science notes, and real-world examples.
Add a self-assessment after each session and record feedback from Leeana and your teachers.
Retest every color, then revise your recipes, notes, and wheel based on feedback.
Present one large shared color wheel that shows science, real life, and your teamwork.
Write a short display story and share the wheel with one another and your teachers.

Launch

Start Wheel of Color Wonders with Leeana by predicting three color mixes.
Test each pair and compare the result with your prediction.
Add each result to your shared color wheel.
Write what you changed and what happened after each mix.
Self-assess your teamwork and ask how color mixing connects art, science, and real life.

Exhibition

Display your large color wheel with Leeana for your classmates and teachers.
Add labels explaining each color mix, its science, and one real-world example.
Demonstrate one tested mix, then answer questions about your choices and revisions.
Ask viewers how the display changed their ideas about color and science.