VTS video analysis Name: Jessica Otto

Total:________/24 points

Answer the following questions while watching the video…

1.) How did she get started with the activity? (3points)

- Let's use our eyes, sense of sight and thinking brains to look at this image.
- Got students very excited.
- Prepare them to use their sight and not their verbal skill and notice what is going on in the picture.
- Set expectations for the discussion.
- Got them up close to the painting

- Had them look for 30 sec.

2.) What kinds of questions did she ask, how did she follow up? (3 points)

- What do you notice?

- What do you see that you say that or think that?
- What else can we find?
*Validated their response by pointing out what they saw and some approval.
*Repeat or paraphrase what they say.

*Connected it to other’s ideas.

3.) What kinds of thinking strategies were practiced by the students? (3 points)
- Connections
- Basic communication skills
- Connected one subject to another (integration) (Art with science and social studies)
- Bringing in prior Knowledge, making connections to others
- Social learning, students teaching each other
- Patience, going one at a time.
- Higher level thinking from identifying to justify
- Predicting

- Wonderings
Now process what you just saw and discuss the following questions at your table…

4.) How could we connect this activity to the elements and principles? (5 points)
You can connect this activity with the elements of art by having them tell you what color h=and
shapes are in the picture that they see. You can connect principles by having your students ask,
“is there anything that is repeating over and over” or “where do your eye go when you look at
this picture.” By doing this your students don’t realize that they are learning art concepts but it
will catch on after a while when they get older.

5.) What kinds of follow up or next step activities could we do after something like this? (5
points)
You can have students look over another picture from the fall and compare the pictures on how
the trees change with the different seasons on how the colors get brighter.

6.) Elementary Ed. how could this be used cross circularly? Art Ed. how could this transfer into a
project? (5 points)
You can have the students learn the science about the plants and use art to learn the
different colors like primary and secondary.