Anchor Standard: Generate and conceptualize ideas and work. 

Link: https://artsandculture.google.com/?hl=en

For this lesson, students will design and create a t-shirt that represents them as a whole person. Clothes are a very individualized decision, which makes them a great outlet for students to reflect on themselves. To start, each student will be given a plain white t-shirt and asked to reflect on the aspects that influence them. Some examples include culture, family, interests, hobbies, school, and so forth. Following this, students will have the opportunity to use a variety of art supplies to decorate their shirt. Students will be allowed to take these t-shirts home and work on them there, as they may have other supplies they would like to use to create their desired product. They can use the Google Arts and Culture page to research culturally relevant art and include some ideas on their t-shirts. 

Once the students have finished creating the t-shirt, they will take six photographs. The first photograph will be a picture of them wearing their t-shirt. The remaining five photographs will be close-up shots of selected individual elements on the t-shirt. After the students has taken the photographs, they will need to be printed and cut out. Then, the students will write descriptive captions for the five photographs explaining the decision to include those elements, their history, their significance, and how it contributes to them as a person. To conclude the project, students will post up their pictures in the classroom, creating a gallery in which they can walk around and examine the works of their classmates. 

Use personal experiences and interests in making media artworks.
K.MA:Re7
a. Recognize and share components and messages in media artworks.
b. Recognize and share how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.

Day 1: Teacher will show one or two pictures from surrealhk Instagram post. the teacher will then say, take a moment to look at the picture, what can you tell me about it? before you answer take a look at the setting, the people, and their faces. Then say, now that you have taken a good look at it, what can you tell me about it? can you relate to the picture? Teacher will help students understand that with photography we can let people see the way we view the world and can create emotions. With the previous discussion on surrealhk pictures, the teacher along with the students will discuss that with this pandemic there have been many shifts we have had to make in our lives. The teacher will help students understand that this is how the students can relate to the picture.
With virtual learning, the Teacher will make a google slide with a before covid and after covid chart.
Students will brainstorm and be given the opportunity to discuss their experiences and their feelings before the pandemic and after the pandemic. After class, the teacher will have students look for a picture of something they were able to do before the pandemic and will be asked to take a picture of how things are now with the pandemic. If they go out, what are some precautions they take? Students along with the help of their parents will submit the pictures to the app ClassDojo.
Day 2: The teacher will have to load all the pictures to google slides. Going back to the before-after chart students will help the teacher categorize pictures to where they belong. Students will be given a chance to talk about their personal experiences and be encouraged to share how they relate to their classmates.
Elaborating on the previous days, the teacher will ask students to submit pictures or a short video that brings awareness of how to stay safe during the pandemic. Parent help will be needed to submit their work through Class Dojo. Teacher will explain that taking pictures or creating videos can bring awareness to what is occurring in our world and through media artwork we can also contribute help.

“What traditions does your family celebrate?”

“What is your ethnicity”

“What language are you most fluent in?”

“Does your culture have special ceremonies or dances?”

“Is there a specific dress attire you follow?”

After doing some research on their culture students will be given a mini-lecture in photography and how a picture can tell a story. Photography will be used in the sense of capturing the moment. Students will be asked to take a single picture of any environment, object, person or city. They will be asked to look for cultural beauty in unexpected places that defines their culture. After capturing their moment they will then be asked to write a paragraph summary on the photo and explain how it relates to their culture and why they decided to photograph the option. 

Site Reference: https://artatatimelikethis.com/first-responders

Grade Level(s) - High School 9-12

Artistic Processes: 

Creating Conceiving and developing new artistic ideas and work.

Producing (media arts) Realizing and presenting artistic ideas and work

Communication, community engagement, personal exploration/realization

This lesson will begin as a class discussion. First, ask students how they felt during the COVID-19 pandemic. This could include how they felt about the current events that took place during this time (2020 elections, police brutality). After students shared their thoughts, state how sometimes these feelings are hard to express in only words and how some people use other methods of communicating what they need to say. Introduce "First Responders" online exhibition and have students look through it, asking them to analyze its context, meaning, and perhaps why the artists chose to speak out using media art. After students have toured the exhibition, students will have the chance to express their own 2020 experience. This could be through photographs, digital art, digital collage making, or photo editing. Students should ask themselves these questions as they work on their media art piece: 

After they have finished their piece, students should name and write a brief description of their work -- a couple of sentences since their piece should do most of the "talking". Students will have a chance to view each other's work through a tour or an online exhibition (Google Sites). At the end of this lesson/activity, students should have an understanding of how media art carries meaning and has the power to convey messages that words sometimes cannot.

 Develop multiple ideas for media artworks using a variety of tools, methods, and/or materials. 

Standard:

Lesson outline:
We will discuss about the events that have been happing in the world and we will also discuss/share how we feel about the event or about any other personal problem/worries the students might have. Then I will show students the images from the website Arts at a Time Like This. I will have students review the image, identify and understand the message of the image. I will have them explain what issue is being portrayed, having done that I will have students think about a topic they would like to portray in their image. I will also give them the option of simply using their emotions, they don’t necessarily have to portray an issue they can just demonstrate what they feel in that specific moment,  the different emotions they feel throughout the day, or any other emotion/situation  they would like to express/share. Having reviewed and thought about what they want to show in their art. Students will have the option of creating a drawing, taking a picture or creating an animation. This will allow students to understand that you can support or express what you feel through art that has no words. 

Lesson Plan:
This lesson will include discussions on how looking at images such as the ones displayed on the Instagram account linked above made them feel and any connections they may have felt to it. I will explain that art sometimes makes you feel understood, even about things that you do not believe others may relate to. I would connect this back and ask the students to describe an emotion that they were feeling during a difficult time in their life (like during the pandemic). There are images on this Instagram account displaying a man being followed by a bunch of surveillance cameras; I believe an image making such a statement must be discussed considering it portrays a message that most people feel they are being watched via the media. I will have my students find pictures that project loud statements that allow them to make connections through their minds; how they feel about the image and how they relate to it.

Sites: https://www.instagram.com/surrealhk, or https://pandemicfaire.com



Standards:

Anchor standard:

1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 

2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 

4. Analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for presentation.

Lesson: 

The Main point of this lesson will be for students to express themselves through pictures. First students will get informed by the teacher of what sites they will be using find pictures to find that represent them. Students who want to use a different site have to ask the teacher first for approval to use the site a student recommended before using and finding pictures(think about the student!).  

Next teacher will inform students about the rubric of the assignment which is to choose pictures around at least 5 to as many the student wants to do as the more the better the class gets to know about you. And after you find your pictures you will write around 5 plus sentences about each picture about how it relates to your life, examples can be about culture/history, community engagement, personal/family to this point in your life. Overall it can be a picture that is special to you and write why. When students have found there 5 plus pictures they will put them on google slides/ or print out pictures and post them on a board to present to the class later on for around 5-10 min each student.

Tips for students:

Some examples of pictures you can pick can be rated to what you like in life, what you appreciate, family, favorite sports/hobbies, etc

Be creative make and make it special make it unique 

Ask away to the teacher for help!

Next students will be put into groups when finished with finding pictures that reflect who they are as well as reflects them right now. And they will share within groups of 4 (depends on class size) and students will comment on each others pictures and see what touches they can add to make it better if it is possible before they present to the class.

When students are presenting students listening are to take notes and treat the presenter how they will like to be treated when presenting. And at the end when everybody presents the class will reflect on what they learned from each other and what they liked from certain students’ presentations, what they had in common etc. In the end, students will know that arts rather bring people together than most people realize and can make relationships and more.

Standard: 4.MA:Cn10; Examine and use personal and external resources, such as interests, research, and cultural understanding, to create media artworks.

To begin the lesson the teacher will show images to the students from pandemicfaire.com. Students will discuss images and what they think about them. They will be shown a variety of images from the website and will discuss the different types of images and the meanings behind them. It will be explained that an image can have many meanings depending on the artist’s way of interpreting it.

The directions for the students is to take 3 pictures of something in their environment whether that be in your home or outside of your home that has provided you comfort in the past or even the present. Once the images have been collected students will write a brief description and explanation behind one of their three images that they are comfortable in sharing with the class. The lesson behind this is to demonstrate to students the different types of interests, cultures, and environments that their fellow students are surrounded by that bring them comfort and are using media artworks to share and represent this.