The photos below show drawings in progress and students at work in Art Tech class.
To kick off the 2024-25 school year, 8th graders have begun drawing the Stations of the Cross in Mr. Bell's Art Tech class. Students drew grids with 1/2-inch squares on small prints of illustrations by contemporary artist Shari Van Vranken. Proportionate grids with 1-inch squares were drawn on larger sheets of card stock in order to scale up the small images. Math concepts are reinforced as students must remain focused on corresponding positions on 2 graphs as they draw the contents of each grid block. When finished with their pencil drawings, students will go over their lines with permanent marking pens. Students will photograph their drawings after erasing the grid lines and stray pencil marks. Then, the images will be developed further and colored electronically with the Sketchbook graphic design app on students' iPads.
The photos below show drawings in progress and students at work in Art Tech class.
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This video shows students of our school's Friday Robotics program as they design and run remote-controlled Lego EV3 racing robots. After Friday Robotics students successfully finished their advanced coding challenges in the spring of 2024, they earned the privilege of making racing bots. Mr. Bell, the Saint Peter Catholic School Art Tech Teacher, runs this Friday program for interested middle school students. During the 2023-24 school year, he was assisted during the robotics sessions by Mrs. Ju, a first grade assistant teacher. |
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
September 2024
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