Can we illustrate our work? by

Van Gogh sunflowers by Rosa Gaspar

2017etwinning — 2017-02-19 08:10:26 UTC

After reading the story with the students a series of activities were created so that the students better understood the importance of art and everything associated with it could be important for the day to day work. New learnings were done and always through the play.

Marco Sch, Germany

2017-02-19 09:00:31 UTC

At school I use a very simple form of art to illustrate grammar. I invented the "House of Tenses" to show my students that it's quite easy to understand how they work in context, e.g. using the present perfect as elevator between the floors of past and present. I hope you'll like the idea.

Sonia, Spain

2017-02-19 09:11:04 UTC

I use pics and photos to illustrate my lessons. The aim is the student associate them with the theory and the contents explained in class. It makes everything easier and enjoyable

It is important to have visuals in an early childhood classroom as a reminder of the rules. Our rules chart is posted on the wall in several locations throughout our classroom at the children’s eye level so we can refer to it when necessary.I feel it is extremely important to keep all classroom rules positive, notice how I have not included the word “don’t” in any of the rules. Our rules include:Helping Hands,Listening Ears,Quiet Voices,Eyes Looking,Walking Feet

manolachelori — 2017-02-19 09:52:03 UTC

Loredana Manolache, Romania

Rania Bekiri, Greece

raniabek — 2017-02-19 10:20:45 UTC

I have created flashcards to illustrate simple vocabulary for my young learners and i put them up on the walls and boards of my classroom! As I am not good at Art (!!!), I use the computer to make them! I often see the pupils looking at them during the lessons! So, they are useful!

Maria del Carmen Flores , Spain

carflofer — 2017-02-19 10:32:01 UTC

I make cooperative learning when I teach simmetries and mosaics and of course I use pictures and photo

Copyright

evitoth84 — 2017-02-19 12:01:51 UTC

Let us not forget that when we use art, photos or music, we must teach our students how to respect copyright, what creative commons are and where you can download free photos or music. flickr, pixabay, jamendo etc.

Verena Michael, Germany

2017-02-19 12:16:30 UTC

I use a lot of visual prompts or try to develop presentation techniques with my students that do not need many written words. When students are trained to visualize the differences of the works of students with special needs and "regular" students are not so visible. Pictures and visual prompts are very helpful in internal differentiation.

There are scientific studies that proved that without pictures, movies, our students can not concentrate. They learn like this because they grow up surrounded by publicity, games, videos.... This is their reality!

ninanedelcu — 2017-02-19 13:34:15 UTC

_{I use a lot of short videos. I try to select the short}^ones.

Elena Modesti, Italy

2017-02-19 13:42:52 UTC

I like CLIL Art lessons in which you can learn about famous artists and their works of art. I also like to use pictures by famous painters to have the pupils describe the images: in this way they can practise the use of vocabulary related to image descriptions (on the left/right, in the middle, in the top left-hand corner, on both sides, in the foreground/background and so on) and they realize that it is not so difficult to describe simple images/photos and famous painting as well.

Laura brazzabeni

2017-02-19 14:09:48 UTC

As anche English teacher i would propose a description of the picture and a searchi in internet. Where the picture is , who

Olympia Lampaki, Greece. YES, YES! We can enrich our work using ICT - project based teaching & learning and of course collaboration models

2017-02-19 14:34:35 UTC

All are new types of art, visual art!

I cannot imagine my classes without ICT. Here is an example of a recent task-Valentine's Day. I've made a video about my students' work :)

2017-02-19 14:50:23 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVAILMmwCUs&t=82s

Cinzia Giulia Fontanive, Italy

2017-02-19 15:17:41 UTC

Art can be stimulating for a lot of activities with students as I said in the Tricider above. An idea would be that of working with colors especially with younger students. They can identify ,in small groups ,warm colors, primary colors cool or warm colors, complementary colors or secondary colors.Then build as many sentences as possible with the color category identified. With older students you can work on helping them to understand how to read a painting . In a group , students can find information on the painter , on the artistic period in which he painted the Sunflowers, another group can find information on how Van Gogh draws inspiration from, what subjects he uses , his technique of painting using a text where to find information etc: Another group can work on the author biography to create a self-portrait of him using a given text about his life in which they have to rearrange the frame in the correct order. These are also CLIL activities for an interdisciplinary work with the Art , English and Italian teachers.
At the end of the collaborative work the groups can use a Padlet with a specific title Van Gogh "Sunflowers " in which they put their works . In this way they use the digital skills that students likes so much.

Florina-Hermina Simedre

2017-02-19 15:24:18 UTC

We can illustrate our work. Everything is easier when we introduce pictures and videos. A picture can develop a student's creativity and imagination. You can teach almost anything using pictures- even modal verbs!( showing them pictures of some people and asking them what they may be thinking about, etc) You can teach them directions, using maps and pictures, you can have them speak around a photo, etc.

Diana Alina Ene

2017-02-19 15:46:02 UTC

YES. We can illustrate all our works. I just had an idea, a few minutes ago. In my literature class, I will ask my students to write in collaboration ( with MeetingWords tool) a poem about the Sunflowers painting of Van Gogh. Every student will write a line. Or another activity: We will create a Stormboard about SUNFLOWERS that will contain photos, videos, poems write by the students, creative artistical compositions, drawings, everything that will cross their minds about this topic.

Sophia Kouzouli, Pyrgos-Greece

sophiakouz — 2017-02-19 15:56:11 UTC

Art is in us.
I have used art in all my classes although...I am so not good at Art ;-)
With my 1st and 2nd graders I use art to illustrate new vocabulary and with the rest of the classes I use Art in almost everything we do, to practice speaking and writing as well as to accommodate my materials to the needs and learning styles of my students. You can see somof the things we created with my students on my blog

Christiane Eichel, Germany

lancelot24847 — 2017-02-19 16:09:55 UTC

In one eTwinning project we are creating FlipFlap books: Our school started making them, they were sent to the next school to continue ... When the last school will have finished the books, they'll be sent to each school, so that every school will have one of them.
https://youtu.be/FmPBBQxv0Zc

Stavroula Lada, Greece

pde4424 — 2017-02-19 17:53:21 UTC

Last week we worked on DIVERSITY with my 7 years old students. We used paintings of famous artistes, illustrating different people. The students described what they saw and made comments on the different features of people. We then discussed what makes us unique and argued on whether we like that we're all different or we want to be all the same. The students ended up saying that they like that there is diversity in our world.

Olga Keramida/Greece

olkeramida — 2017-02-19 18:03:59 UTC

In kindergarten we use paintings for our topics . When we were "talking" about shapes we used Kadinsky's paintings. Last month we were working with Van Gogh's "Starry Night" . Our topic was "day and night"

Exploring paintings

anatendinha — 2017-02-19 18:16:38 UTC

ashiaaron — 2017-02-19 18:25:09 UTC

ART AT NURSERY SCHOOL

Iryna Panasiuk, Ukraine

justagirl_ — 2017-02-19 18:37:53 UTC

My 11th grade students practise to describe famous pictures at our lessons. The last picture we worked on was Gainsborough's "Portrait of Duchess de Beaufort".

Lidija Hatadi, Croatia

2017-02-19 19:09:50 UTC

I use pics and photos to illustrate my lessons.
We did that last week.
We illustrate grandfather.
So we learned about history.

Cristóbal Blázquez

2017-02-19 19:13:43 UTC

I used to watch the biography and some paintings from different artists like Kandinsky or Miró. After that every team choose their favourite painting and made their own painting changing colours or something. In the end we make puzzles

Marina Diklić Matešić

MinaN — 2017-02-19 19:35:15 UTC

As a history teacher I rarely engage children to be creative artists, but there are some activities I use, like cartoon drawing to illustrate some history events or to send a message after completed task, mind mapping or arranging school billboards.

Maria Rosaria Tafuro

tafymar — 2017-02-19 19:43:30 UTC

I used to let my pupils visit vrtual museums where there were exposed pictures of Monet. Hrere they can watch subjects, colours, and different techniques; then I used to discuss with them their impressions, and later they were divided into small groups to look for more detailed information about the pictures they had liked most.The following step is to try to recreate pictures using the same techniques.and to be able to distinguish the impressionist technics in other painters

My artists at school (kindergarten)

dotriv — 2017-02-19 20:02:38 UTC

I usually present geometric figures with artists such as Kandinskiy and Mondrian. Pollock is a funny way to work on lines. Klee and Mirò are interesting when the subject is how to organize the space . Karla Gerard for seasons. Keith is always loved by my pupils. One last idea: zentangle art for almost anything, it is funny, relaxing and creative

My students create often their own collages with copyright-free pictures in order to introduce themselves, their hobbies and so on. I also use fotos for flashcards (quizlett,) and quizes (Kahoot, quizziz) and in order to have an inspiration to write a text or a poem.

evriklia19 — 2017-02-19 20:03:25 UTC

Zulmira Magalhães

2017-02-19 20:52:16 UTC

My 8th class etwinning project is based on Tesselations ( they are trying Escher technics) and they enjoy to do it.

Hi I'm Milena from Italy- I'm working on a etwinning project about games. Students have to invent one or more games in order to learn. They chose to collect groups of images, where players have to find alink word. Images can be printed or (that's a great idea) drawn and painted by the students themselves

2017-02-19 20:53:16 UTC

Mariana Gaiu

2017-02-19 21:19:17 UTC

I think using visuals is important as they help students learn things much better. This is true especially with young ages, but not only. I very often resort to explaining the use of tenses by making them "visual" to my students - I use timelines in order to do so. things become clearer for them in this way.

Solange Delicado

sdelicado — 2017-02-19 21:41:41 UTC

Last year we did a very interesting activity with our 5th year classes using the story "The biggest flower in the World" by José Saramago. The activity was divided into four steps. First the students watched the illustrations from story, after they watched a short animation of the story. Then they had to reorganize the pictures according to the story. The third activity was to write on a petal shape paper a sentence saying what they felt about the story and the activity. Afterwards they wrote a different ending to the story. Each class had a flower built with the petals and at the end of the activity we put the flowers on the library's walls.

Solange Delicado

sdelicado — 2017-02-19 21:53:24 UTC

Lina Marrazzo

2017-02-19 22:00:07 UTC

I think visuals in general and art are very useful to teach. I always ask my students to describe pictures, and use paintings in relation to literature, which I teach. Last year, while working on 19th century London with my 18 year old students, I asked a group to imagine they were the author of the painting "Seven dials", giving a talk about the reasons which made him decide to paint it, and the message he wanted to convey. I appreciated what they did very much.

Exploring paintings

anatendinha — 2017-02-19 22:14:59 UTC

My class participates in an etwinning project whose objective is to explore works by authors like Kadinsky, Xul Solar, among others.
The project has allowed us to know what we think about art, to know various painters and their works, to vote on what we will explore, to reproduce their works and to identify what inspired them, what they have in common and what distinguishes them.
It has been very enriching and the students have shown a lot of interest and commitment

Doina Andrei, Romania

2017-02-19 23:15:47 UTC

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
Our goal is to arouse students’ interest and promote their lateral thinking. How do we keep students engaged and motivated inside a classroom, especially when the topics are not easy to grasp from the students’ perspective? To effectively expose students to abstract concepts or theories, I employ the following 4 steps:

1. Introduce terminology before the theory itself.

2. Describe the procedure and environment in which the theory applies.

3. Illustrate the formulation of the theory.

4. Organize the materials and explore beyond the theory.

For each step, I make use of hand-drawn pictures to facilitate learning and to arouse students’ interest and imagination.
The key success factor in utilizing pictures effectively in our classroom is to get students involved and engaged with our drawings, to encourage them to imagine and visualize what is in the picture and, most importantly, what is not.

Aranzazu Iturrioz (Santander-Spain)

2017-02-19 23:42:07 UTC

We can illustrate our work, of course.
Nowadays

Marisa Rocha, PT

2017-02-20 01:05:48 UTC

I've got lots of examples. I'd like to share the latest, but I don't think this padlet is working well (at least nothing seems to open with me...), so I'll paste the link here: https://youtu.be/FmVsTsnSDR8
Hope you like it! :)

When art dances with... Emotions!

popapad — 2017-02-20 07:50:19 UTC

My students have expressed themselves through art in so many projects!They have prepared and presented a "TV show" about the Dance History,adopting the roles of journalists,art experts and made their own choreography ,teaching one another....…the list is just endless!

Carla Asquini

carlavai0 — 2017-02-20 10:56:37 UTC

I asked my students to express some main ideas about gender discrimination through a word cloud. Sorry, they worked in Italian

Mauro Zuppel

2017-02-20 11:27:55 UTC

Teaching history, I sometimes ask my students to watch a painting about historical issues, for example about way of life in ancient times. This activity improves skills about observation, attention, analysis and interpretation.

Motivating students

petra_cafnik — 2017-02-20 12:00:23 UTC

I use a lot of visual or audial input, when starting a lesson. There are different types of learners, so we have to accomodate them all. It's a starting point for a conversation, and enhances students' imagination. When teaching literature, I read them a poem and they have to illustrate either their emotions or the story behind the poem.

A mysterious smile

2017-02-20 12:27:15 UTC

My name is Andrés Sigüenza, from Spain. We work by projects in our school, and in he last trimester we worked about Europe and the different contruies. When we "visited" France, we make a Museum like the Louvre and we worked the face and it parts using the picture: "The Gioconda" It was amazing and very funny.

Nils / Germany

2017-02-20 13:20:13 UTC

My students sometimes use pictures for projects like "my dream classroom" or similar. Some students really enjoy drawing or painting. For others it's annoying because they are nor properly skilled.

I worked with my students on a CLIL project on the topic " paintings, colours and seasons". We analized and described different paintings and then... hands on work... we used different techniques to realize our own art crafts. Here we made a sunflower portrait with our photos in the middle.

loredana_basso21 — 2017-02-20 14:20:20 UTC

Cristina Antal - Romania

2017-02-20 15:53:52 UTC

Visual is basic once more in kindergarten where everything has to be touched or seen to be understood. We use drawings, pictures, photos, images every day.

Mustafa ATLI TURKEY

2017-02-20 16:29:05 UTC

my students collected empty batteries for our project.

Despoina Amarantidou, Greece

damarant — 2017-02-20 16:39:38 UTC

We usually work with Artful Thinking and talk about paintings. Then my students produce their own pieces of art.

Borko Petrović, Serbia

2017-02-20 19:11:57 UTC

My students love using their digital skills to create pictures and stories, sometimes even cartoons and comics. They work in groups to create digital stories with pics, sound, titles and music. We usually participate in similar projects with students from different countries.

Chiara Sabatini - Italy

chisab72 — 2017-02-20 20:50:02 UTC

I love art but I've never been able to draw! My students are very good though. So I usually ask them to draw a logo for the project they are involved in and if we write stories I ask them to draw a picture for the story. They really love it especially if they work in groups there is always a "painter" in the group who coordinates the images.
https://padlet.com/gcoll23/28dljcekoyzn

Sandra Santos, Portugal

2017-02-20 22:04:19 UTC

This school year, my students got in touch with "padlet" for the first time. I leave you an example of their work.

Andrea Simonovics, Hungary

2017-02-20 22:36:54 UTC

I always ask my students to illustrate the content they put in our projects. Images are captivating for the eyes and also for the brain. In this way they can call the attention to their ideas and writings. Here is an example of our present project about addiction:

motivating reading

veronica_sandor — 2017-02-21 04:35:02 UTC

I try to motivate students to read books for their age, new, beautiful. often books are from my personal library

Fatima,BiH

fatimaklicic — 2017-02-21 07:06:09 UTC

My students celebrate Pi Day

Last week with the students prepared a poster entitled Peace. Students are were works in five grups.Every group had its own task Making Application- white doves, children holding hands, earth, trees and flowers. All applications were used and glued to the poster into a whole which was a planet filled with messages of peace. The students were satisfied with the work but participated in the school poster competition for Peace and we won first award.Bravo for successfully completed the task of my students.

kiki_kovacevska — 2017-02-21 09:08:06 UTC

"Noble Bundle" - national project

jowitakrolikowska — 2017-02-21 15:47:40 UTC

In this year I organized many thinks but the best is "Szlachetna Paczka" ("Noble Bundle") for me because COLLABORATE all students and some parents from our school. The main goal this activities is material support for needy family. Teens are CREATIVE because they have to raise finance and they do shopping. Moreover it is a big national project so students COMMUNICATE with each others and with promoter of project. In this year we helped family, which son to get cancer.

Jigsaw classes, By Sónia Moreira, Porto, Portugal

2017-02-21 16:09:59 UTC

In Jigsaw class students are part of two groups: original group and group of experts. They are happy because they can learn, in the same class, in two different groups.

corina_tudorache2008 — 2017-02-21 18:23:06 UTC

Corina Tudorache

The game is loved by children in kindergarten activities plastic practice are a pleasure.

2017-02-21 20:30:14 UTC

Imagine students imitate the posture of the flowers in the light, imitating their withering to the sound of soft music. Each partner could film the different interpretations and share.(Anabela Santos)

Milos Bakovic

2017-02-21 21:24:25 UTC

I would make a photo collage game for groups. 'They can make their own collage from many pictures of our work. Here's an example:

Photo collage, Svetlana Bakovic

2017-02-21 22:16:30 UTC

Pupils may create an art production where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms.
E.g. Robots

Chiara Torchia_Italy

amanteav — 2017-02-22 00:43:43 UTC

We chose a work of art, we tried to study and to imitate the position of each character in the picture, made aphoto and then using an on line application called Van Goghyourself, we uploaded our photo with the corresponding one. It was really great fun!

Colour and shape

penelopapaki — 2017-02-22 04:58:37 UTC

Unfortunately there is not enough time for art in the foreign language class at the secondary school.
We usually sent our wishes for the new year with lucky charms or bookmarks.

Project Based learning though Robotics

2017-02-22 09:52:42 UTC

In the robotics club, we wanted to create different sumo bots.
Elaine Bonello

Art in Marketing and comunication

meliter1 — 2017-02-22 17:26:48 UTC

I teach Economia aziendale, and my pupils rarely have anything to do with art. The only crossing with forms of arts is with the preparation of activities to marketing and communication. From the beginning of this year, my class has realized an activity of marketing and communication for "Ceramiche Nino Parruca". I attach one poster that my pupils have generated

LOVE THEMED BOOKMARKS FROM TURKEY

idelier — 2017-02-22 20:19:36 UTC

Art and collaborate in e twinning project

adrianalaze — 2017-02-22 21:12:25 UTC

This is what European pupils have drown and post to our school. Also our pupils have drown and posted their creative work.

Gamification in Education...

gelametal — 2017-02-22 21:25:16 UTC

Through a classical german board game, my students learned to collaborate and investigate about the german culture and furthermore strengthen their German grammatical knowledge. Furthermore they used the board game as a way to collaborate and communicate with another public school of Athens. I am very proud of this work

laura brazzabeni

2017-02-23 13:00:48 UTC

http://www.writeurl.com/publish/ifgn05787uopczpa8v8f

about art in ICT lessons

Kauno — 2017-02-23 14:16:10 UTC

in IT lessons students at various online graphics programs, draw and construct. They need to create e-books, websites and others.

Ester Degennaro--I’ll propose a Clil activity “ Art through the English”.-Teach the difference between primary ,secondary and tertiary colours; warm and cool colours, colours linked to the emotions. - Build a glossary-Use digital tools to produce nice artworks (Paint, ArtRage 5, The Pictomizer to transform pictures into another style pop art painting)- Explore museums from around the world with google.Van Gogh museum 2.0-Explain a painting they like more-Make a booklet with the images made by all children

esterdegennaro — 2017-02-23 17:51:18 UTC

Media Education: Creating brochures collaboratively

glyki_g — 2017-02-24 20:17:26 UTC

Silvana Turcinovich Petercol

2017-02-24 21:10:45 UTC

Students' creative colourful drawings can bring fun to school activities. Sharing graphically their own ideas can be an original contribution to collaborative learning and additionally motivate them. We used drawings to present body idioms in the EFL classes.

Irene Confalone-Italy

2017-02-24 21:46:29 UTC

Art and Christmas (sonia75)

2017-02-25 08:26:42 UTC

In my school we have a laboratory of bricolage, where students can let free their creativity! The teacher suggests an idea and students work with their emotions...art and feeling of freedom!!!

Hamlet Khumaryan-Armenia

2017-02-25 16:50:20 UTC

A poster made by our students about our country,its army and symbols.Everything done in collaboration with art teachers and students

A Journey from Romania to China

mihaelateh — 2017-02-25 19:51:28 UTC

A poster made by my 7th Grade B students as part of a larger extra-school activity entitled "Travelling Around the World".

Lintrigo di James Ensor

ciaramellaanna — 2017-02-26 11:04:02 UTC

My students realyze

Lintrigo di James Ensor

ciaramellaanna — 2017-02-26 11:08:02 UTC

finished work

Stavroula Vakana

2017-02-26 14:19:34 UTC

Even since i sterted using group work in maths, differentiation is a lot easier. The students who solve the exercisees first have to explain to their teamates, which helps them too. We also connected maths with art, using repeating mathematical sequences to create works of art

Magda Koutsouri

magda979 — 2017-02-26 14:24:36 UTC

some art work on diversity and tolerance

Maria Sabrina Funaro, Italy

2017-02-26 16:31:38 UTC

We worked on world ecords !

World Water Day Contest

marialuisaprovezza0 — 2017-02-26 18:14:39 UTC

Mrsmartini — 2017-02-26 18:39:29 UTC

cinzfior — 2017-02-26 19:20:06 UTC

ANNARITA RECCHIA

2017-02-26 20:28:42 UTC

Last year we worked with some foreign schools in an eTwinning project on the colors

..the name of the project

It was "art and color."

every month we had a color on which to work we had to then to realize an activity related to art ... so when we worked on the blue, we sang together

the song IN BLUE BLUE PAINTED, when we worked on the white

we have achieved star of snow and with Orange we have created an autumn landscape ....
look here !

..https://youtu.be/SQ7IwkZKJoE.

and when we worked on the red we
we have achieved a martisor, an amulet Romanian lucky, after listening to a very beautiful story ....
look here!

https://youtu.be/Dkr45s4JNwk

Hamza H

2017-02-26 22:53:01 UTC

Often I relies on audio and visual aids at the beginning of the lesson to motivate students and develop more to the imagination

Celebrating mother's day

margaridabarbieri — 2017-02-27 14:46:41 UTC

Starting with five senses: taste, smell, vision, hearing and touch, we create a tribute to each mum...

Art and French to know better the country

danielacamurri — 2017-02-27 23:14:38 UTC

A project to study French regions and in particular the Provence by he mean of Van Gogh pictures. A virtual trip in Arles showing the environments painted by Impressionist "maitre"

Out Christmas Tree

bacal_liliana — 2017-02-28 22:29:23 UTC

Working together for our Christmas Tree

Learning to know each other

verenamichael — 2017-03-01 16:29:54 UTC

Art, English and apps.....

Our St. Valentine's decorations

nazaroma — 2017-03-01 20:29:58 UTC

to you with LOVE!

Working with Van Gogh

Mrsmartini — 2017-03-01 23:01:02 UTC

Learning by sharing

irma_toti1 — 2017-03-02 07:40:08 UTC

I think pictures, drawings, photos, visual art in general is very important to keep the attention of my students and to facilitate sharing ideas. I teach French Literature and often I start my lessons warming up my students with a picture related to the subject I'm going to introduce them. They get involved immediately and take an active part in the lesson. Sometimes a famous painting can synthetise the elements of a literary and historical period and help them to understand and keep in mind even complex ideas.
Irma Toti,

Make a logo

lia_molini — 2017-03-02 20:55:11 UTC

Sunflower masks

2017-03-03 21:05:50 UTC

We made masks for our Carnival in the second Primary school class.
It has been a transcurricular activity, involving children in Art, Geometry and Language, all in one.
1 Step: Let's admire Van Gogh's Art:emotional and empath moment
2 Step: Comparing different artists: let's have a look to other stimulating artists such as Picasso or African artists.What are the different ways to rapresent reality? What shapes can you see?
3 Step: Let's have a look to masks made with Geometry shapes. Where is the mouth, and the nose, and where are the eyes?
4 Step: Hands on activity: Let's cut out shapes and make funny faces!
5 Step: Let's make our sunflowers!
6 Step: Our Show!