Subject area
VISUAL ARTS: “Postcards: Photographs”
Educational objective
•Guiding students to discuss the artworks found on the EducArt platform related to the theme of Family
•Guiding students to use a digital camera and to illustrate their point of view on family, using the works found on the EducArt platform as their starting point
•Guiding students to produce a postcard
Description of activity
Class 1: Once the project, instructions and EducArt platform have been presented, students read and study the text related to the theme of Family found on the platform. Students watch the videos featuring Mattiusi Iyaituk and Chloé Sainte-Marie to deepen the discussion about the theme. Students articulate an artistic point of view, based on the artworks found on the platform related to the theme of Family.
Class 2: In a group, students study composition (rule of thirds) and framing (angle values), based on the works found on the EducArt platform. Students complete a set of exercises based on these concepts. Individually, students carry out experiments at various locations around the school (indoors and outdoors) to complete these exercises. Students review the completed work.
Class 3: In a group, students study focus and light, using the works found on the EducArt platform as their starting point. Students complete a range of exercises based on these concepts. Individually, students carry out experiments at various locations around the school (indoors and outdoors) to complete these exercises. Students review the completed work.
Class 4: In an individual piece of writing, students explain the subject they have selected for their final photograph and the process or method they will use to complete the desired composition as it relates to the theme and to the artworks found on the EducArt platform. They have a trial run to test the process or method.
Class 5: Students take part in a creative session: a group outing to several locations around the community, so that they can take photographs on the theme of Family.
Class 6: Students choose their favourite photographs (up to three) or those they find the most meaningful. For each photograph, students write a label that includes the title of the work, the name of the artist and the year it was taken. In a group, students review the photographs and explain their connection to the artworks found on the EducArt platform and to the theme of Family. Students relate the text written on the theme in English class to one of the photographs selected for their postcard.
Predicted subject areas (subject-specific competencies, key features, cross-curricular
competencies, according to the Progression of Learning or other Ministry of Education’s
documents)
Competencies:
• (C2) Creates media images
• (C3) Appreciates images
Key Features:
• (C2) Uses ideas to create a media production
• (C2) Shares his/her experience of media creation
• (C3) Analyzes an image
• (C3) Constructs his/her interpretation of the image
Cross-curricular Competencies:
• Uses creativity
• Uses information
• Communicates appropriately
Expected student outcomes
A postcard on the theme of Family, based on artworks found on the EducArt platform