The latest news from the Wright world of innovative science education.
Wright Center for Science Education
2-5 AUGUST 1998
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The latest news from the Wright world of innovative science education. |
Wright Center for Science Education
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 That's it! - Teachers take advantage of native materials, such as dirt and plant pigments, to render their drawings. April Hobart, workshop coordinator, took the group to a pond on the outskirts of the GDA campus for an observational drawing session. Since there was quite a range of artistic ability in the group, participants were given a choice: they could either use the time for wandering around campus and drawing whatever they liked, or they could gather subject matter and attend an in-depth session on how to draw what they were seeing. Teachers went through some basic observational exercises and sketching techniques. They also discussed art materials and found that armed with only paper and all the pigments found in the grasses, dirt and flowers outside, they could accurately render some of their observations in color.
Esther Charbit, founder of Lakeview Education Arts Partnership in Chicago, shared an exercise she calls "A Journey through a Flower". During this exercise the class learned the artistic technique of layering colors using Cray-Pas while also learning the thirteen parts of the flower. |
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Using Stargazer lilies, Esther carefully took apart a couple of flowers and handed out the various parts to the class. Each person was responsible for drawing a large version of one structure, keeping it to scale with the rest of the flower's parts.
Part of the whole - Participants prepare individual components of a flower model. The layering technique using Cray-Pas on dark construction paper gave the parts a very waxy look and the drawings came out great.
Mission accomplished - After completing their individual parts, teachers assembled the components into a large flower model. Once everyone was done, they brought their parts together, mounted on wire, to build a whole flower. The result was a 3-dimensional model of a lily mounted on foam core, and it was beautiful!
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