Students finished project this week that centered around an issue of their choosing. They could look to current events and were encouraged to use content they were studying in other classes to help inform their selections. In addition to using prior knowledge, students did research using PBS LearningMedia's resources to help further their understanding and inspire the images they created.
From endangered animals to bullying, students selected a wide variety of topics for this quick project in which they were to use 2D media to complete their works.
Below are some highlights from the assignment:
From endangered animals to bullying, students selected a wide variety of topics for this quick project in which they were to use 2D media to complete their works.
Below are some highlights from the assignment:
Nikki O.: My problem is that our elephants are endangered of going extinct from this world. What would our be with no elephants? To me our world would be boring. I love elephants and everything about them, they are such a wonderful animal taken for granite. My art piece reflects on this issue because I drew an elephant on top of the white paint, also the cardboard and the collage looks unfinished. This is trying to say that the world would be unfinished with out the elephants here with us. This project relates to science, because it would affect the worlds food chain. We talked about the food chain this year, and if one thing is off balance the whole food chain is affected. Help save the elephants! We need these creatures in the beautiful world with us!
Jackson l.: Drugs. Drugs, are terrible. They can tear families apart. They can destroy lifelong friendships. They can consume people and make them lose time at everything they really want to do. Make it stop.
Ella P.: Every year in school we have health class and they talk about drugs and alcohol. But smoking is one of the things that always catches my eye, People should know that it doesn’t keep u alive it just makes you one day closer to die and makes your lungs slowly turn black and unhealthy. We have the right to stop it if we want to but some people can’t stop what they started. The word BREATHING RIGHTS is meaning, you have the right to breath with clean lungs and not become a unhealthy person. Because once you start its hard to stop.
Sarah W.: My artwork is about World Peace. It connects to history because we were just learning about World War 2 which was anything but peaceful. My work reflects the issue because World Peace is a choice just like an update on a computer. I chose this issue because it is important to me. My issue is very important to me because there are days when I see things on the news that worry me and for sure worry other people. Nobody should have to live their life scared or nervous about what is going on around them.
Abby B.: In my artwork, "Once Upon A Dream", I used the issue of environmental problems to create my piece. To create this piece, I used all colored pencils, and I made sure that I added lots of value to give it more of a realistic look. I choose this issue, because in my science class, we had talked about things like pollution, chemical runoff, smog, which are all environmental problems. That discussion had inspired me to create a piece that will help people understand what problems we currently face and problems that we will face in the future, caused by environmental problems. In my piece, their is a snow globe sort of thing, with a clean world inside of it. Inscribed on the bottom, it says, "Once Upon A Dream". Outside of the window, you can see a city, covered in smoke and pollution, with dead grass and trees, and multiple cars. To explain this, I have the snow globe say "Once Upon A Dream", because it was so far from happening, it was like a dream. I also included the city outside, to show how far away it was from happening. To finish it off, this was a fun but important project, and I am excited to do one like that again.
William B.: This project is to me a really deep theme "Bullying" this person is made of a paragraph about bulling and how it hurts people in a lot of ways this is what i did because many people dont really care about bullying and dont think its a big deal but when people get bullied they they sometimes hurt them self and even kill their self. When either your the bully or the victim it is never fun because often times the bully is probably going through tough times or is getting bullied, too.
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