Art a la Carte
The other day my roommate told me that his mother had written a series of 4 art books, so I thought I'd share the resource with you all. The image to the left is from Art a la Carte: Art in Math. His mother, Vanessa Isitt wrote and illustrated these witty art integration books for math, science (nature), aboriginal education, and social studies (cultural art). Rather than theory, they contain activities, reproducibles, and evaluation criteria for art lessons. On amazon.ca (see link above) you can take a peak inside two of the books. I appreciate the artwork she has done for her readers (teachers). Conversely textbooks that are all text based are much less engaging than ones with on topic humorous cartoons, and artwork intermingled with the text. Even at my age art helps me to stay interested in texts, and this is likely true of the average student as well.
That's pretty neat!
ReplyDeleteSounds like these are great resources. But please use your knowledge of "theory" to be discerning about the projects you choose! An approach to art teaching that I see as limited and missing opportunities is one that is focused more on activities than on what learning you are trying to accomplish with the activities.
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