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Students will become living sculptures as they challenge their bodies to interpret the geometry, angles, and balance of a dozen famous sculptures. Bringing awareness to The Five Senses and the Powerfu... Read more

Students will become living sculptures as they challenge their bodies to interpret the geometry, angles, and balance of a dozen famous sculptures. Bringing awareness to The Five Senses and the Powerful Force of their breath, they will be challenged to grow empathy and build a Great Heart as the imagine what it is like to be an art work. They will maintain stillness and stability in their interpretive poses for 60 seconds at a time. They will shape their bodies to mimic characteristics of the artwork's lines, forms and structure. They will hold their interpretive poses for an entire minute bringing awareness into their breath, their body, and the passing of time. They will be challenged to continue to hold the pose while learning contextual information about the artist/sculpture including the time and place it was created and the media used. Then students will discuss the work of art by describing how their bodies felt being in the interpretive pose and use visual art vocabulary as they begin to read into the sculpture's possible mood, meaning, and ideas. After this reflection, students will re-construct an interpretive pose that encompasses an insight or fluent read of the artwork. These poses can be named and used as classroom directional for stretch breaks, transition times, line ups, etc. Different types of breaths will be taught in response to specific feelings/postures.
During the second half of the visit, students will collaboratively analyze, investigate, compute scale and then measure and represent with their bodies to visualize real world size, perimeters, angles, and area as applicable to grade appropriate learning standards. This program encourages students to slow down, to interpret/process their visual world, and to look/learn with their whole body as they connect mathematics to real world applications. Students will understand that artwork conveys a story that can be read be interpreting the form, structure, media, and contextual information; reading a work of art becomes more accessible when looking with their whole whole body. Students will have exposure to several different sculptures from different cultures from different time periods inclusive of female and African American artists. Students will solve word problems based on new and interesting visual data(sculptures); data collection, measuring and problem solving, calculate actual size, area, perimeter, angles of the work of art will bring work to life. Students will work independently and collaboratively to interpret and analyze the works of art. Younger students focus on PE stability/non-locomotor standard while being exposed to visual vocabulary in their full body interpretation of famous sculptures. They will use basic measuring and grade appropriate mathematic standards to bring the scaled down sculpture images to life. Higher grades will enjoy the Mindful Minute breaks to look art art, learn about famous artists, stretch, and breath before collaborating on mathematic measuring standards as they make connections to real world applications of math.

Available all year Fridays.Fall Semester Tuesday / Thursday 11:35am -End of DayMonday, Wednesday available December, January and May only. Full Day Tuesday/ Thursday Available Decemb... Read more

Available all year Fridays.
Fall Semester Tuesday / Thursday 11:35am -End of Day
Monday, Wednesday available December, January and May only.
Full Day Tuesday/ Thursday Available December, January, May.

Laminated Artist Sheets that contain image of sculpture on the front and contextual information on the back including: photo of the artist, name, date, title, size, location, fun facts, etc. I will al... Read more

Laminated Artist Sheets that contain image of sculpture on the front and contextual information on the back including: photo of the artist, name, date, title, size, location, fun facts, etc. I will also supply rulers and graph paper.

Students will interpret the lines, shapes, forms of a work of art by moving their bodies. Students will notice and wonder about what they see visually and ask questions to start an engag... Read more

Students will interpret the lines, shapes, forms of a work of art by moving their bodies.

Students will notice and wonder about what they see visually and ask questions to start an engaged investigation.

Students will collaborate and measure to solve real world math problems involving geometry.