School projects
Following is a sampling of some of the ArtsSmarts learning programs going on in P.E.I. schools: School: Queen Elizabeth Elementary, Kensington Project: Now and Then - Then and Now Teachers: Tammy Rice and Marilee Reeves Artist: Maurice Bernard Number of learners and grade: 45 Grade 6 learners Description: Learners will discover different aspects of their community surrounding Queen Elizabeth Elementary School, studying various communities including Kensington, New Annan, Malpeque and French River in 2018 and how it was back in 1918. They will be research agriculture, fishing, transportation, schooling, merchants, etc. in 1918 and 2018. Following the research, students will create a visual clay representation of the transitions since 1918. Forty-five individual two and three-dimensional projects will be part of a large mural to visually represent the transition of their community in the past 100 years. Various curriculum links explored during this experience include: Math, Language Arts and Social Studies. School: Eliot River Elementary School Project: Illuminating da Vinci, Art and Intervention Teacher: Leslie MacDonald Artist: Terry Dunton Stevenson Number of learners and grade: 57 Grade 6 French Imersion learners Description: Students will be stepping back in time and studying the ingenious invention drawings by Leonardo da Vinci’s. Following an in-depth study of da Vinci’s inventions, learners will become inventors and sketch their own invention using conté, just as would have been utilized by da Vinci. Learners will also investigate inventions sculptures created by artist of the Steampunk contemporary art movement. As da Vinci did, students will work with the artist to create 3D sculpture of their original inventions. Using a mixed media of paper, wire, sculpey clay and other found objects, inventions will be published in a promotional brochure with an online software program. Students will create promotional text advertisements. The project will culminate with an Invention Conventions where learners will be sharing their artistic creations Various curriculum links explored include: French Language Arts, Technology and Visual Arts. Name of School: East Wiltshire School Project: The Wonder Women Teacher: Jody MacDonald Artist: Adam Perry Number of learners and grade: 5 grades 9 to 10 learners Description of the learning experience: Learners will be introduced to the making of a high quality television commercial by experiencing the networking that takes place in the media industry when trying to sell a creative thought. Students will experience the how-tos of this industry in order to have their ideas produced into a visual and audio medium. From acting, directing and editing using professional equipment, student will produce a 30-second commercial on the importance of blood donations. Various curriculum links explored: Language Arts, Technology and Math.