Art Inquiry Newsletter II

Ms. Nadine Bouliane

LS 405
nbouliane.org

How the World Works

An inquiry into the interactions between the natural
world and human societies; how humans apply their
understanding of scientific principles and the impact
technological advances have on society and on the
environment.
Essential
Questions
How do you define
the "natural world"?
Do you consider
yourself part of the
natural world?
How have artists
represented or
utilized the natural
world in the past?
How have artists
interacted with other
disciplines to
understand the
natural world?
What would be some
ways of exploring the
theme of the natural
world in your own
artwork??

Interdisciplinary
Connections
Language Arts:
Students will use written
reflections to analyze
their work and the work
of others.
Social Studies:
Students will examine
the socio historical
context of a variety of art
objects and think
critically about what
those objects reveal
about people in places
and time.
Science

ESLR
Connections

How You
Can Help

Compassion
Students will
explore how art
helps us
understand our
connection to
others.
Intelligence:
students will use
creativity to
respond to
project prompts
and critical
thinking to
analyze imagery..

Encourage your
child to record
their
observations
and feelings
about the world
around them in
a visual journal
at home with
simple and
easily
accessible art
materials .

Unit
r
Focus

Pre-K an d Kinder
How the World
Works: Nature
and Me

Students will explore

expressive and
representational art and
the natural world using
color, shape and texture.
Projects emphasize
material explorations
and using drawing and
painting to express ideas.

Grade 4
How the World
Works: Art and
Communication

Grade 1
How the World
Works: Getting
Ideas from Nature
Thinking and working as
artists, students will use
observation and
investigation in
preparation for making a
work of art. They will
explore uses of materials
and tools to create works
and be able to explain
why some objects,
artifacts, and artwork are
valued over others.
Projects include insect
studies., patterned
landscapes and creature
collages.

Grade 2
How the World
Works: Images
and Ideas

Thinking and working as

artists students will use
learned art vocabulary to
express preferences about
artworks, experiment with
various materials and
tools to explore personal
interests in a work of art.
Projects will include
creating stories using
shape paintings and
designing puppets to tell
the story of their chosen
inventor.

Grade 5
How the World Works:
Seeing Connections

Thinking and working as artists,

Thinking and working as
students will combine ideas to generate an
artists, students will
innovative idea for art-making and experiment
brainstorm multiple approaches and develop skills in multiple art-making
to a creative design problem
techniques and approaches through practice.
and collaboratively set goals to
Students will strive to demonstrate quality
create an artwork that is
craftsmanship through care for and use of
meaningful and purposeful to
materials, tools, and equipment and create artist
the makers. Projects include
statements using art vocabulary to describe
designing expressive symbols to personal choices in art-making.. Projects include
convey our school ESLRs and
botanical studies using pastels and watercolors
create a collaborative painting
and printmaking and inventive patterned
for display.
creatures.

Grade 3
How the World
Works: Stories and
Symbols

Thinking and working as artists,

students will focus on creating a
personally satisfying artwork
using a variety of artistic
processes and materials and
interpreting art by analyzing use
of media to create subject matter,
characteristics of form, and
mood. Projects include creating
symbols to convey ideas and
creating a dreamscape painting
influenced by the work of Marc
Chagall.. processes an work

of art.

Grade 6/7
Art and Social Issues: Charcoal
Animation

Students will explore the work of

contemporary artist William Kentridge and
his belief that life is about "understanding
the world as process, rather than fact."
Using Kentridge's innovative drawing
technique that combines classic drawing
with photography, students will create
animated films that explore an issue of
interest. Students will be challenged to
formulate their artistic investigation around
a socially relevant issue and reflect on
whether the artwork conveys the intended
meaning while revising accordingly.