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: shape, color, texture
ART PRINCIPES: transformation;
change, morph, scale
LINE OF INQUIRY: How does Matisse use exaggeration of shape and scale to transform 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?
DANCE:
Bill T. Jones - Ghostcatching
Sean Curran - Percussion Pieces
ART / SCULPTURE / Time Transformation
Henri Matisse, Jeannette 1-5
SKILL ACTIVITY: Choose one artform and complete ONE skill activity.
Visual Arts-
!. Draw two simple shapes on opposite sides of a sheet of paper, such as a circle and a square.
2. Imagine that the circle is going to magically transform into a square. 3. Draw two to three shapes that show the transitional shapes
Dance - Make a dance that shows the process of a growing flower.
Art Activity for the Early Childhood cassroom
1 .Transform a small clapping gesture into a large clapping gesture.
2. Hold hands in big circle... while holding hands, transform the circle into a square. Triangle, etc.
3. make a painting of the group activity from step one and two.
2:15
2:45
3:00
30
15
15
CREATIVE ACTIVITY: Complete one creative activity.
VISUAL ARTS
Create a transformation with at least 4 stages. Your transformation can be a real life transformation or a fantasy transformation.
OBJECTIVE: create a drawing, painting or water color that shows 4 stages of a natural or imaginary process.
- 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, moving sun, birds, etc.)
- Try to explore a theme or idea that would be interesting to both children and adults. Blend imagination and logic.
- 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.
MUSIC: Create 4 sounds compositions that show a transformation.
OBJECTIVE Create 4 vocalizations that reveal a transformation. Load sounds in Powerpoint and present with 4 photo images.
SAMPLE ACTIVITY
:
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, recd. tri.), photo collage, digital brushes
Photography- Edward Muybridge, Running Horse
Social Studies- social change, counter culture: revolution,
SCIENCE: mutation, metamorphosis
Transformation:
change, alteration, conversion, , transfiguration, transmutation, remodeling, reshaping, redoing, reconstruction, rebuilding, reorganization, rearrangement, morphing .
Survey: Transformation Survey