VTS video analysis Name:____Zoee Miller ____

Total:________/24 points

Answer the following questions while watching the video…

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

Saying we are going to do our art talk.

Use your eyes and see what you notice.
Make sure everyone was quiet.
They looked for 30 seconds.

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

What do you notice?

What do you see that makes you say that or think that?
What else can we find?

Followed up by pointing to where the things were on the artwork.

Made them justify their answer.
Connecting a student observation with another students.
Paraphrases or restates what the student says.

3.) What kinds of thinking strategies were practiced by the students? (3 points)

They are answering questions.

They are thinking critically of what they see in an image.

Predicting
Communication
Connecting ideas
Problem solving
Translating visual thoughts into words others can understand.
Higher level thinking
Wondering

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)

When looking at a piece of artwork the students could be asked to find the elements and
principles. Also, when a student points something out in the painting the teacher could ask
what principle or element, they think it is as a follow up question.
5.) What kinds of follow up or next step activities could we do after something like this? (5
points)

Next students could create their own artwork that either goes along with a social studies,
language arts, math, or science lesson. This can give students the opportunity to complete a
lesson they learned with a visual that they see after they learned the material.

Next students could indicate what the narrative is of the artwork and do a small writing
assignment. The students could come up with different story lines that they think the image
goes with.

6.) Elementary Ed. how could this be used cross curricularly? Art Ed. how could this transfer
into a project? (5 points)

Cross curricular the image could become a writing assignment and they have to write what
they think the image is about. This would fit into language arts.

Students could also use images to see what was happening in a certain time period. Images
and information of an era are huge for younger students because those bigger concepts are
often harder to comprehend for them. Images make it easier to picture and understand.

The image could also show a great deal of information in a science lesson. Showing students
different environmental pictures and they must point out what they see and connect it to a
science term or an idea that they are learning about.