Drawing With Spark

First Lesson I taught while Student Teaching at Grant Middle School 1/29/13 

Objective:
Students will learn the importance of looking while drawing.

Process:

Student's had three opportunities to draw.  

First 3 min drawing: Students looked at the word on their table and using their imagination drew what they thought the word looked like.  

pumpkin

mug

Second 1 min drawing: Students were given a 3D representation of the word on their table and they had to draw what they saw without looking down at their drawing paper.

pumpkin

mug

Third 12 min drawing:  Students used the 3D subject again, but this time practiced looking up and down between the subject and their drawing.

pumpkin

mug

Reflection:

In the end we played a game where I took one volunteer from each table to bring up their three drawings and the rest of the class had to figure out which drawing was which and back up their answer.  Students were more comfortable with the drawing from imagination, but preferred their results in the last observation drawing.  These drawings ended up being more detailed and accurate, which the student picked up on in the reflection.  Controlling where students looked for inspiration in each drawing got them to become more aware of how they tend to draw individually, from inspiration, guessing, looking, comparing, or a combination of these.