Learning Objectives
Students will gain knowledge of content, methods, practices and life skills:
- Students will have an increased awareness of the S.T.E.A.M. of popcorn. What exactly are popcorn kernels? Why do the kernels pop? What is required to make the popcorn pop? What happens in the inside of the kernel?
- Students will see how something small a kernel can be filled with many big ideas.
- Students will collaborate and generate ideas of what popcorn transformation direction they are considering.
- Students will gain art vocabulary as well as the knowledge of the S.T.E.A.M. of popcorn. Students will experiment with varied art materials; students will see exactly how working in graphite pencil is different from colored pencils and different from watercolor with crayon and also marker.
- Students will see how popcorn is used in Art.
- Through art-making, artists make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, experiences, and popcorn transformations will show this.
- Students will demonstrate responding skills by providing authentic evidence of pencil value scale and transformations of popcorn in selected triptych works of art.
- Students will be able to understand that small things like a kernel are filled with complex vocabulary of embryo, hull, or fluffy popcorn. Students will increase awareness in the value of being who they are and feeling comfortable at popping when it is just the right time, without comparisons to peers.
- Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
- Artists and designers develop excellence through research, practice, constructive critique, reflecting, revising, refining work over time, and oral critiques.
- Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness will be developed through popcorn transformation art that can lead to an understanding or appreciation of self, of others, and of the world around them through the S.T.E.A.M. of popcorn. Students will come to understand why popcorn pops and why each popcorn kernel is so special!
- Students will be able to explore art materials through visual art compositions.
- Students learn or navigate portfolio with online upload popcorn triptych.
- Students gain critical thinking skills in creating triptych compositions, writing artist statements, and online portfolio upload.
- Students identify and demonstrate diverse methods of artistic investigation to choose an approach for beginning a popcorn transformation work of art.
- Students engage collaboratively in creating art-making, google slide portfolio, writing an artist statement in response to an artistic problem of what their popcorn transformed into.
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