Axis: Appreciation of pieces of Art, Production of an  and Socio-cultural context

Type of Art: Screenprint - PopArt. artistic-teaching resource

The teacher shows a painter
The teacher asks if they know this artist, then she/he shows the tomato soup can art and asks the same question- Do you know this piece of art?
The teacher talks about Pop Art - “Pop art is a movement that emerged in the mid-20th century in which artists incorporated commonplace objects—comic strips, soup cans, newspapers, and more—into their work” extract from pop art meaning

Teacher says: Now let's see these pictures from Andy Warhol, just see in silence ( half a minute each picture)

The teacher asks - what do you think? What do you feel? What is an endangered animal?- and explain that Andy Warhol was very concerned about endangered animals and he made this art to make people aware of them. He used another artist´s photograph and made new pieces of Art with screen printing- 

The teacher will tell students to choose one of these 10 animals, first draw and then make a stencil to pass the paint on it as a screen print.

After that, they will write some characteristics from the animal he/she chose.

We can use the same activity with secondary students explaining the process-He used Screen printing as a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink onto another element called substrate, to create a new picture, in this case, he took other artists' photographers to work on. Secondary students can print a picture and learn about screen printing, working with the Art teacher in an interdisciplinary way, and talk about series techniques, commonly used in PopArt.

For kindergarten, we can point out the colours and the animals' names. We can scope their choices into 2 animals, the teacher can draw them, give copies to each student and they can paint them.

Axes: production: singing

Type of Art: audiovisual- youtube video- music. Teaching resource

The teacher plays on a TV or a projector the video short vowel a song, students listen, at the end of the song they are encouraged to repeat the letters and words that form CVC words. In a second listening session, the teacher encourages them to sing along with the video.
The teacher can repeat this activity during the whole week, adding some other CVC activities, such as match the picture with the word, or put in order the letters to make a CVC word.
 

Axes: Appreciation of a piece of Art and Production of drama play.

Type of Art: Oil painting, chiaroscuro movement- Art-teaching resource.

Development: Teacher shows this painting: La vocación de San Mateo- Caravaggio.
Tell them to appreciate for 2 minutes in silence

They have to think, what are they doing? Who are they? Are they related?

After that, the teacher divides the group into 4 groups of 7 students ( our group has 28 students) each of them have to decide who is going to be and invent a dialogue about the situation. They have 20 minutes to write a collaboratory script.

Each group will pass and act their play. Students and the Teacher will evaluate creativity and vocabulary ( grammar and fluency).

This activity is very fun, roleplay is a great way to make students speak, we can use the same activity using different pictures with different characters at all school levels. You can give the activity more days of preparation by adding costumes and make-up to the play or filmning. Also, they can choose the soundtrack.

-Axes: Appreciation, production and sociocultural context.

- Development: The teacher shows this picture to the students, they discuss what type of text it is, guessing the context, author, type of literature and so on. Then, they have to see written words as an art form. This is Blackout poetry which focuses on rearranging words to create a different meaning. This way the students have to think critically as they search for anchor words that create a powerful story. It encourages the use of imagery and color to bring more meaning to the message. It is supposed that students may use their imagination and write whatever they feel and interpret in their own work of art, this time poetry.