This document describes an innovative educational experience using sand painting to teach art and emotions. [1] Students use an online sand painting tool to create artworks in groups while listening to different types of music, exploring how colors and shapes express different emotions. [2] They analyze the connection between the art they create and the emotions felt. [3] The experience aims to integrate technology, art, emotions, and teamwork, while teaching color theory.

1. INNOVATIVE PRACTICES
IN EDUCATION
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Learning through our Emotions,
Sandpainting
Noelia Calle Hernández – IES La Serna, Fuenlabrada
Rosa Fernández Alba – IES León Felipe, Getafe

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Experience:
“Learning through our Emotions,
Sandpainting”.

3. ABSTRACT
•This experience shows how Technology
have been integrated to work with and from
an emotional point of view in Arts and Crafts,
although it could very well be adapted and
carried out in other subjects as Image, Music
or Home-Class.

4. CONTENT STANDARDS FOR THIS EXPERIENCE
LINKED TO the Spanish National Curriculum within
the context of Secondary Education for Arts and
Crafts 1º ESO, with reference to the Decree 23/2007
of 10 May 2007
CLASS LEVEL - 1º ESO- 7th GRADE
AREA- SUBJECT - ARTS AND CRAFTS
UNIT: “COLOUR THEORY”

5. CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to:
•Get to know a different artistic expression within the Visual
Arts.
•Promote TEAM work
•Learn and discover different ways to express their emotions
•Learn to learn
•Practice the contents learnt in the Unit “The Colour”
•Develope their Digital Competence in tone with the
Emotional, the Artistic and the Social.

6. Methodology- Assessment
• Assessment Tool: A mixture between formative and
summative
• Learning Theory: Piaget’s Constructivist approach, using
Indirect instruction and experiential learning
• Time frame: 2 Class Periods of 45 min.
“Watch, feel, experiment, do and finaly analyze what has
been done”

7. TEACHING TECHNIQUES
• We start watching a video about “the art of painting with
sand”, and following the inquiry teaching model,
students will be asked to explain what they feel and think
about it, and search for the name of this type of art.

8. LABORATORY METHOD
• Online Tool: www.thisissand.com
• Students will be asked to paint using this Tool in groups of 2-3
students.
• Different types of music will be played, and they will try to express or
connect with the emotion or emotions they feel.
• They will then analyze the connection between the colours and
shapes the used and their emotions (Group Discussion)

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• Exhibition of their Art Works in the Gallery.

10. Awareness Training
• They will collect pictures of the process.
• They will make a video of each sesion using free software
online, Photopeach and Animoto.
• They choose the images, the speed of the video and the
music for the final editing.

11. Final Products
• Photographic video of the experience in
Photopeach.

12. Technological Resources Needed
• Computer Laboratory with screen
projector and speakers.
• Camaras or Smartphones
• Internet Connection

13. Conclusion
“Learning through our Emotions,
Sandpainting “
It is an easy, attractive and engaging activity,
rewarding for both students, teachers and
parents…
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July 2012