Students of the 7th grade Art Tech classes designed cross pendants with the Tinkercad computer-aided design app. After viewing various Celtic-style cross designs for inspiration, students used this engineering software to express their own creativity. These 3D printed crosses are worn on a string or thin chain. Fr. Magee blessed the pendants at Mass on May 14.
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Seventh grade Art Tech students made animal hand puppets which are featured in their short music videos. The puppets were made with paper, cloth, cardboard, tape, wire, paint, adhesive googly eyes, yarn, and paper mache. Students made mass uniform shirts for their creations. The boy animals have ties. Students shot video of their puppets against green screens or a puppet stage with a blue background. Several students have shot video outside the art room for use as backgrounds when applying the greenscreen technique. Students edited their videos in the iMovie app on their iPads, and employed iMovie soundtracks. On the name labels of the videos below, if there are more names than there are puppets, the final name is the videographer. The Tinkercad church model shown below was designed by eighth grader Alessandro Falasca, a member of our Middle Robotics and CAD Group. The resulting 3D print also appears here. The 1st grade art classes are shown below with paper hats that they created. Prior to making these origami "Samurai helmets" with large squares of paper, first graders learned the folding techniques with small squares of printer paper. Mrs. Coronado, a first grade assistant teacher who works with Mr. Bell each week during the 1st grade art classes, is shown wearing her hat.
7th grade Art Tech students have created animal hand puppets which have been starring in their short music videos. The puppets were made with paper, cloth, cardboard, tape, wire, paint, adhesive googly eyes, yarn, and paper mache. Students made mass uniform shirts for their creations. The boy animals have ties. Students shot video of their puppets against green screens or a puppet stage with a blue background. Several students have shot video outside the art room for use as backgrounds when applying the greenscreen technique. Students edited their videos in the iMovie app on their iPads, and employed iMovie soundtracks. On the name labels of the videos below, if there are more names than there are puppets, the final name is the videographer. Kindergarteners made symmetrical paper flowers by folding, cutting, and gluing colored paper. Tempera paint was used to create grass, stems, and leaves in these artworks from the KB class.
Third grade art students used Sketch Up for Schools computer-aided design (CAD) software to make virtual models of dogs, as well as doghouses and pens, on their Chromebooks. A selection of works by students of the 3H class appears below.
Kindergarten art students have learned to make symmetrical paper flowers by folding, cutting, and gluing colored paper. Tempera paint was applied to the card stock base to the create grass, stems, and leaves in these artworks from the KE class. |
Mr. John Bell, Art TeacherMr. Bell focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and presented STREAM (Science, Religion, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) workshops at the Diocesan Teacher Conference, as well as multiple workshops throughout his years in the Diocese. Archives
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