School of Education
Curriculum & Teaching
Prof. John Toth, Ph.D. / jtoth@hunter.cuny.edu
TRANSFORMATION
CANGE OVER TIME
for the post modern educator
TRANSFORMATION
AIM: Understand transformation as a process for change and growth over time that
promotes individual and community identity. Consider TRANSFORMATION as a process of LIFE
as seen in nature, stages of life, imagination, science, belief systemsÉ Examples: young to old, chrysalis to butterfly, sunrise to
sunset, transformer toys, extreme make-over.
OBJECTIVE: Draw 4 stages of a natural development. Create 4 sounds. Make a dance that shows the process
ART ELEMENT: Transformation;
change the shape, color, texture, scale.
LINE OF INQUIRY: How does Matisse use exaggeration of shape and scale to transformation Jeanette?
The Arts Standard 3
Performance:
Dance - demonstrate knowledge of words and symbols (kinetic, visual, tactile, aural and olfactory) that describe movement
Music - discuss the basic means by which the voice can alter pitch, loudness, duration,
Theater - examine and discuss the use of other art forms in a theatre production
Visual Arts - explore visual and sensory qualities in art.
Rubric
art supplies
1:45
15
ART / PAINTING / Imaginative Transformation
Rene Magritte, The False Mirror, MoMA
EDUCATION LINE OF INQUIRY:
How can visual transformation be used to
reveal a process of growth and change?
ART / DANCE / Sean Curran / Percussion Pieces
Henri Matisse, Jeannette #1-5
Edward Muybridge, Running Horse
MORPHOLOGY
Make two
simple object on opposite sides of a sheet of drawing paper. Drawing two to three
morphing steps between the first and last image.
Dance - Make a dance that shows the process of a flower garden.
Art - Draw four stages of a natural development.
2:15
2:45
3:00
30
15
15
CREATIVE ACTIVITY: Choose and complete ONE creative activity.
OBJECTIVE: Draw 4 stages of a natural development. Make a dance that shows the process
VISUAL ARTS:
Create a
transformation with at least 4 stages.
Represent as many details as
possible within each stage of the transformation. Pay attention to the things
that transform along with your main theme. (a transformation of a plant over
time my also show the transformation of clouds and moving sun, birds, ect.)Try to explore a theme or
idea that would be interesting to both children and adults. Blend
imagination and logic.
- Your transformation can be a real life transformation or a fantasy
transformation.
-You are welcome to do this assignment digitally with a camera or software.
Take digital photographs of each transformation so we can view them on the
video projector.
OBJECTIVE MUSIC: Create 4 sounds compositions that show a transformation. Create 4 vocalizations that reveal a transformation. Load sounds in Powerpoint and present with 4 photo images.
Materials: Chose a material that fits the
idea of what you want to represent:
Nature:
watercolor, paint, brushes, sponges, craypas
Architecture: markers; construction paper; rulers, compass, triangle
Memory: photoÕs; collage; digital;
Animals: tempera paint,
Patterns; construction paper, scissors, craypas, stencils, ruler
People; geometry (circle, square, rec. tri.), photo collage, digital brushes
Social Studies
social change,
counter culture: revolution,
SCIENCE:
mutation, metamorphosis
Transformation:
change, alteration, conversion, , transfiguration, transmutation, remodeling, reshaping, redoing, reconstruction, rebuilding, reorganization, rearrangement, morphing
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