Transcript Creativity & Content

IDEA@theBass
4th Grade Language Arts Lesson Plans
Creativity and Content
Inspired by Jim Lambie, Zobob, 1999/2011. taped floor
installation, Vanishing Points Exhibition, Bass Museum of Art
Tina Arenas, Curriculum Designer
Writing: Creativity and content (LA.4.3.1.1 Generating ideas
from multiple sources such as text, brainstorming, graphic
organizer, drawing, writer’s notebook, group discussion)
Time: 45-60 min.
Objective: Students will be able to view Zobop disc and use
creativity to relate to text content in the personal creations.
Materials: postcard, poster or disc with image, writing
journal, pencil, rolls of colored electrical tape, and cardboard
or construction paper.
Art Work: Jim Lambie
Zobop, 1999 / 2011
colored vinyl tape
dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist & The Modern Institute|Toby Webster. Ltd, Glasgow,
Scotland , Collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl, Miami.
Installed during the Vanishing Points exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art, 2011
History
Jim Lambie was born in Bellshill.
Scotland in 1964 and studied at
the Environmental Department
in Glasgow school of Art which
placed an emphasis on context
and placement (something
which has heavily influenced all
his work to date).
Working most famously using
vinyl tape in now iconic works
such as ‘Zobop', Lambie, one
time DJ and band member of
The Boy Hairdressers who went
on to become Teenage Fanclub,
finds his key influence music
and more specifically pop .
Vocabulary: creativity- Using ideas in a different way, content- that which
makes up your essay.
Directions:
1. Show students Zobop. ( IDEA step - identify)
2. Ask students to brain storm onto paper everything this makes them think
about. ( IDEA step - discuss)
3. Give table groups colored rolls of electrical tape (any colored, rolled tape
will work) to share and each student a piece of cardboard or construction
paper. (IDEA step - envision)
4. Have students create their own design onto the cardboard. (20 min.)
5. Have students fold their notebook page into four tall columns.
6. Have students write each of the following four questions into the top of
each column:
1) Why did you design your art work this way?
2) How does it make you feel?
3) What do you want the art viewer to think about while viewing it?
4) If you could cover any object or surface with this design, what would it
be and why?
7. Give students time to share within their table groups using timed pair
share. Then vote within their groups on the one to share with the entire class.
(IDEA step - assess)
8. The winning vote gets to share and display with the class.
9. Praise their positives! Display all of the children’s artwork within the class.
Other writing activities:
Have students create a design with four common colors of electrical tape:
red, blue, green, yellow. When they are done with their design they should
research different color words by using dictionary, internet, thesaurus and
crayon boxes. Have students write all of the different words for that color on
the pieces of the corresponding tape of their design. Example: green tape
would have words: emerald, forest, army, and lime. (Sharpies make great
tools for this activity)
Folder designs: Student will cut 6 pieces of each of the four colors of tape.
They will create a design on the front of their covers. Then students will
review kinds of words. Nouns-person, place, thing or idea, verb- action
words, adjectives- describing words and adverbs- describe verbs.
Assign a color for each kind of word. You will write a verb on each strip of
pink tape you used. You will write a noun on each strip of blue tape you
used. Follow the same for the other two colors.
Expanding sentences:
Have students copy a simple sentence onto their papers.
The dog is barking.
Have them cut it apart. Have students write two adjectives onto colored tape
strips of the same color. Then they will create better more descriptive by
continuously adding each part of speech.
The big, brown, shaggy dog is barking.
Then they will add adverbs.
The big, brown, shaggy dog is barking loudly.
Art connection: Have students bring in an old item of theirs like old ruler, pencil
sharpener, eraser. Have them cover the item using their design in colored
electrical tape. Ask students to write an essay describing why they decorated
that item in the manner that they did.
Art lesson can follow IDEA concepts: Identify, Discuss, Envision, and Assess.
Jim Lambie
Zobop, 1999 / 2011
colored vinyl tape
dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist &
The Modern
Institute|Toby Webster.
Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland
Sarah , collection of Debra
and Dennis Scholl, Miami
installed during the
Vanishing Points
exhibition at the Bass
Museum of Art
It took 8 volunteers 10 days to install the colored tape on the ramp leading to the second
floor of the Bass Museum of Art
When the exhibition was over, all the tape was
removed from the floor.