As I was studying for the MTTC Visual Arts Education Exam last week I decided to write information on index cards. I had reminded myself that the more ways I do something, the better I will learn it. I was reading about the information through notes. I wrote down that information on index cards and looked up all the art online so I could see it visually, too. Then studied more...
The cards were all shuffled together as I began to study. I rearranged the different eras of art in chronological order, which helped a lot. During that time I came up with a plan for teaching art history to students.
My idea is that I will introduce the timeline of art to the class and we will make a huge one for the room. Students will be assigned different eras or art movements to study about. They research and write a few paragraphs about it. Two artists of that time will need to be included. The students will then have to create a mobile like this:
to represent what they learned and present it to the class. The mobiles will hang from the timeline for the rest of the term. We will then go through art history again, but this time we will learn the different art mediums and processes used in those eras.
For example: For Pop Art we will learn screen printing.
Art history timeline taken from: http://www.lorenmunk.com/portfolio.htmlMobile picture taken from: http://splatsscrapsandglueblobs.blogspot.com
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