Art & Technology PDF

Art & Technology is the ninth unit in the Modern Arts course. Art & Technology is about the way technology from cameras to computers has changed the way art is created, what it depicts, and how it is presented. You will learn about artists such as Ansel Adams, Norman Rockwell, Dorothea Lange, The Beatles, and Louis Armstrong.

This unit contains sections on:

• Photography
• Music
• Theater & Film
• Digital Arts

Hands-on Learning

Layers of Learning is an activity-based program. The mentor chooses from among the activities in the unit to create mental hooks for learning. Some of the activities in this unit include:

• Make your own pinhole camera
• Practice skills that take photography from clicking a button to art
• Make an Ansel Adams shutterflap book
• Go on a photo scavenger hunt
• Listen to jazz music and then learn jazz slang
• Learn to play a blues beat
• Make a learning web about the history of the theater
• Make your own stop motion mini film
• Make a series of puppets and then deliver their lines in character
• Paint your own theater set
• Create a word art graphic
• Plus much more!

Each Layers of Learning Arts unit includes library lists of books, a family read-aloud suggestion, hands-on activities, printables and paper crafts, sidebars for extra learning, and tools to help you assess student’s progress and mastery. You can learn more about how Layers of Learning works in the Curriculum Guide or learn to teach art with the Arts Guidebook for mentors.

See Inside

Here is the inside view of a double page spread from Art & Technology. The curriculum is pick-and-choose, so you select which books and Explorations you would like to read and do out of the many choices.

Flexibility

This unit was written to be used for a month but contains plenty of content for many more weeks of learning if you choose. This is a pick-and-choose curriculum, meant to be cycled back to in the future when your child is older. As such, it intentionally includes far more material than you can possibly cover in a month.

Art & Technology is also part of the overall Modern Arts course, the fourth Year of the four year Layers of Learning Arts cycle. If you use the program in order, it will take you though the art in chronological order, tracking with the Layers of Learning History units. However, each unit stands alone and can be used independently of any other unit.

Printable Pack

This unit comes with a downloadable Printable Pack that includes all the student worksheets. The printables can be copied as many times as needed for your family or class. You can download the Printable Pack from your receipt or from your account at Layers of Learning.

 

Extra Resources

This unit comes with extra weblinks and a YouTube video playlist on the Modern Arts Resources page.