Through Arts Integration, Swigert students are creating meaningful artwork that deepens their understanding of IB concepts! We are thrilled to see so many student examples on the walls of our school and look forward to seeing others in the community in the months to come! Our goals of arts integration:
In Kindergarten’s Who We Are unit, students explored the central Idea that people can share their uniqueness to connect with each other and create a diverse community.
To deepen their understanding of uniqueness, students envisioned and created a unique IMAGINARY FRIEND to help them in some way! Check out the steps they took and how the project developed and shared so many art and literacy skills!
Step 1: Envision a unique imaginary friend. What will it look like? How will it help you?
Step 2: Draw a plan for your unique imaginary friend. Add details to show how it will help you. Label the parts of your imaginary friend!
Step 3: Explain how your imaginary friend helps you.
Step 4: Draw, paint or build your unique imaginary friend with materials of your choice!
In first grade’s How We Organize Ourselves unit, students explored the central idea that systems exist to create order.
Students worked in groups to identify a classroom system and its steps. Students “acted out” each step in photographs and used words and images to create classroom posters illustrating their systems.
In second grade’s Who We Are unit, students explored the central Idea that choices impact communities.
To delve into this concept, students wrote a personal narrative about a choice they made that impacted their community. To share their ideas with one another and the school, they painted a Memoir Self-Portrait, which included a watercolor background representing a scene from their narrative and a self-portrait on top.
In third grade’s How We Organize Ourselves unit, students explored the central Idea that words have power and dove into the question: Who decides how things are named?
To make this learning personal, students interviewed family members to learn more about the origins and meanings of their own names. Students painted a name puzzle with words and symbols representing the meaning of their names.
Coming Soon: Social Action Posters exhibit at the Stanley Marketplace: January 13, 2022!
In fifth grade’s Where We Are In Place And Time unit, students explored the central Idea that movement shapes our world.
Inspired by Jacob Lawrence’s, The Migration Series, students created a series of art works representing key moments from a Refugee character’s migration story.
By choosing and representing significant events from their character’s journey (moments that particularly changed the character), students use art to address the unit’s essential questions:
What is the impact of human migration?
How did this journey change this character?
