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Rationale
ARTcapades is intened to provide free activities for young students, including monolingual Spanish speakers, that are easy, fun, and educational. We have borrowed heavily from Eyes on Art, a great activity that was developed by Tom March. ARTcapades will:

1. Use "web-based" art resources

   It is paramount that students do not "get lost on the web" or become overwhelmed by browser navigation intricacies. Therefore few web-based resources are used; rather the web serves as the vehicle for distributing the activity to you. Hypertext links provide flexible navigation within the application for browsing and selecting art as well as informational elaboration when desired by the user. All in all, your students are not surfing the web; but are instead using a small collection of self-contained links.

2. Choose appropriate instructional strategies

   We want to keep it simple, yet comply with the current California Visual Arts Content Standards. To do this, we focus mostly on "Artistic Perception" and "Creative Expression." All of the activities challenge students to analyze various works of art. They are then challenged to use the vocabulary of the visual arts to express their observations, or they can then apply artistic processes and skills, using a variety of media, to replicate styles, colors, or lines used in original works of art. Specific information on alignment with standards is provided in each of Teaching Tips sections.

3. Use arts education to promote higher level cognition.

   "The arts convey knowledge and meaning not learned through the study of other subjects. Study in and through the arts employs a form of thinking and a way of knowing based on human judgment, invention, and imagination. Arts education offers students the opportunity to envision, set goals, determine a method to reach a goal and try it out, identify alternatives, evaluate, revise, solve problems, imagine, work collaboratively, and apply self-discipline. As they study and create in the arts, students use the potential of the human mind to its full and unique capacity." From the Introduction, Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards: http://www.cde.ca.gov/standards/vpa/intro.html

4. Do what comes naturally!

   Need we say more?

 

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