English
For English, I wrote a lesson plan. In my lesson plan I wanted to try and combine both English and my art, so I created a lesson plan as if I was in place of the art teacher. After meeting with my English teacher and my mom, who is also a first grade teacher, I decided to come up with an E.A.T.S lesson plan. This stands for essential question, activating strategy, teach/task, and summarize. I had made many rough drafts and gone over my lesson plan multiple times, but I had finally included everything that needed to be included and so it turned into a teachable lesson plan. A summary of m lesson plan was to teach the students how to make secondary color, by using only primary colors. As my activating strategy I would go over the set of vocabulary I had and then do an experiment. I would have had three cups of water and food dye(each cup would be a different primary color). Then I would take the red, blue, and yellow food dye and add drops into the correct cups and make the correct secondary color. After that I would have given them only the primary colors and tell them to paint a picture where you have all the colors. Meaning they would have to mix the colors in order to make a secondary color. After they would be done with that, they would get out their whiteboards and I would ask them questions about my lesson to make sure they understood it. We also had to work the skill contextualization into each subject of we had. To contextualize something means to take something out of its place and put it somewhere is doesn't necessarily belong. With my English I took elements from my English teachers lesson plan and parts from my moms lesson plan to make them combine into one lesson plan that would work for me.
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Art
For the art portion of my project, at the beginning of the project, I knew I wanted to do something with art therapy, but I didn't know what I exactly wanted to do for a final product. After lots of research and many meetings with my art teacher, I decided that I was going to use mandalas and use the research I discovered about colors. Even though I had researched line quality and page placement as well, using my color research would be the best way to go, since we only have a couple weeks to complete our project. My fist idea was to write a lesson plan that worked for both my English and art, but after some thought, I decided to do something different. What I ended up doing was giving an image to students and having them pick a couple colors that mean the most to them. They would then use those colors and create something. I then looked at each color picture and tried to examen what was going on. For example the color blue associates with sad and upset feelings and if a student colored more of their picture with them blue, I could kind of see how they were feeling. Although this type of experiment has many negative factors including that the child could have just picked that color because it was their favorite or they picked certain colors because they looked good paired together. After completing my final reflection, I think that with the time I had for this project, I made the most of what I could do! The way I worked contextualization into my art portion was by taking the meanings of the colors and putting them into place inside the mandalas.
These are some of the images I used to help decode and look into my color meanings.