Inquiry Project Plan PS III Fall 2013 Kerry Lee- Crawford

Statement of Selected Focus

The essential question that will drive this inquiry project will be based on the following: How can we show respect through art expression? This project co-exists along with A.B. Daley Schools motto of having respect for yourself, others and property. This project will be a literal exploration of how grade 3, 4 and 5 students can interpret, understand and show respect to themselves and to their community through art making processes and collaboration.

Description of Activities/Processes
Grade 3-4 students will draw of their faces from a photo for a self-portrait assignment, which students will express themselves with respect. For their final project they will sculpt clay houses into their own interpretations of what it means to respect their homes and families. They will also write on the back of their dried clay houses how they show respect for their homes and families. Grade 5 students will first demonstrate respect for themselves by creating an avatar character which will be how they truly depict themselves. They will enlarge it to life-sized using a grid onto cardboard, paint and cut it out to display in the school show case. For their final project they will go on a walking field trip around Nanton visiting 3 distinct sites in the community. Pictures will be taken at each site, of which 5 of the best photos will be voted upon by the students. The pictures will be merged into one mural. The mural will be gridded into blocks with each student being responsible for replicating their assigned block onto canvas with acrylic paint. Each student will write on the back of their canvas how they can or have shown how they show respect to their community. Both grades will complete an ABCs of ART workbook throughout the four months which they will learn and apply art elements to help them accomplish their ongoing assignments and projects.

Timeline of Events
Grade 3-4 students should complete their self-portraits by the end of October and experiment with play dough and complete their clay houses by the end of December. Grade 5 students should complete their self-portraits by the end of October beginning of November, and complete their blocks by mid-December. The final project will be presented to the Silver Willow Lodge before or on December 20, 2013.

Description of End Product

Grade 3-4 final projects will be displayed standing up side by side representing a pattern similar to a neighbourhood in a community. This will be displayed at the school in the show case along with a plaque that will display all of the students responses on how they show respect for their homes and families which they wrote on the back of the their houses. The Grade 5 mural will be put together as a whole art piece and will be presented to the Silver Willow Lodge in Nanton as a show of respect for them in our community. A plaque will accompany the mural with all of the students responses of how they show respect to their community, and all the sites that were visited on the field trip and in the mural.