What's the Big Idea?
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Teaching with big ideas is illustrated through a series of lessons in Davis Publications' elementary curriculum, Explorations in Art. A lesson on the cloth tradition of molas is detailed.
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What's the Big Idea?
- 1. What’s the Big Idea?
- 2. Did you know that the new Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Fine Arts encourage teaching through themes and big ideas? Students are “expected to explore and communicate ideas drawn from life experience about self, peers, family, school, or community and from the imagination as sources for original works of art.” They are also expected to “develop global awareness and respect for the traditions and contributions of diverse cultures.”
- 3. HUMAN COMMONALITIES All humans share: A Search for Meaning The Life Cycle of Birth, Growth, Death The Use of Symbols to Express thoughts and Emotions The Arts as a Universal Language The Ability to Recall the Past and Anticipate the Future A Need for Belonging A Need to Work and Be Productive Connections with the Natural World
Editor's Notes
- This presentation is based on a unit in Davis Publications’ elementary curriculum, Explorations in Art.
- The lessons detailed here meet the expectations of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.
- This lesson also incorporates Ernest Boyer’s Human Commonalities.
- This unit is in grade four of Explorations in Art, Traditions: Our Artistic Heritage.
- The first lesson in the three lesson cycle is based on the tradition of quilting.
- The second lesson focuses on the traditions of paper cutting around the world.
- The studio exploration, a more complex third lesson, looks at the San Blas Islands tradition of molas.
- Step by step directions are given for making paper molas.
- Everything needed to teach this lesson can be collected in one place in the EIA curriculum builder.
- The San Blas Islands of Panama are where molas originated.
- The islands are quite small.
- People live in thatched huts and depend upon the sea.
- The main export are molas, intricate reverse applique designs made of solid colors of cloth.
- Originally, the molas were part of blouses women wear.
- Women also wear beaded leggings and arm bands.