Experience CS

Lesson 5

Build it out

In this lesson, students are introduced to an artistic design cycle which they will use to guide their creative work. They start their artistic design cycle by inquiring about an emotion of their choosing. Students are then given a set of constraints for their art challenge. They develop a plan to represent their emotion through geometric transformations and the elements of art. They then develop a program from their plan to create their piece of abstract art. To conclude the lesson, students compare their experience planning their piece of art on paper to their experience creating their art through a program.

school

Grade 8

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Subject Math, Art

schedule

Length of lesson 50 minutes

Learning objective

Students will apply the concepts they have learned to create a piece of abstract art.

Standards

🌐 CSTA Standards

2-AP-13: Decompose problems and subproblems into parts to facilitate the design, implementation, and review of programs
2-AP-14: Create procedures with parameters to organize code and make it easier to reuse.
2-AP-17: Systematically test and refine programs using a range of test cases
2-IC-20: Compare tradeoffs associated with computing technologies that affect people’s everyday activities and career options.

🇺🇸 National Arts Standards

MA:Cr1.1.8: Generate ideas, goals, and solutions for original media artworks through application of focused creative processes, such as divergent thinking and experimenting.
MA:Cr2.1.8: Structure and critique ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering intent, resources, and the presentation context.
MA:Cr3.1.8b: Refine and modify media artworks, improving technical quality and intentionally accentuating selected expressive and stylistic elements, to reflect an understanding of purpose, audience, and place.
MA:Pr4.1.8: Integrate multiple contents and forms into unified media arts productions that convey specific themes or ideas, such as interdisciplinary arts or multimedia theatre.
MA:Pr5.1.8a: Demonstrate a defined range of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, through performing specified roles in producing media artworks, such as strategizing and collaborative communication.
MA:Pr5.1.8c: Demonstrate adaptability using tools, techniques and content in standard and experimental ways to communicate intent in the production of media artworks.
MA:Re7.1.8 b: Compare, contrast, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience and create intention.