CBA STEAM Lab, Overlord's Log: 2017

Fiber Art

What a great start we are off to. We've learned much about a variety of animal and plant fibers that are used in the textile industry. Our kids got to apply some of the information they learned at a field study in their AP US History class when they visited Governor John Sevier's Farm Home.

The kids also got an up-close look at different fibers through a microscope. The different barbs were cool to look at.

The kids got lessons in spinning, starting with a pen! But after washing, dyeing, and carding some llama wool, the kids started drop spinning.

The kids were introduced to hand and drum carding, and they all got to use the drum spinner.

All of the kids seem to get it, and now they just have to spin down about 500 yards of yarn for their textiles!

HS Art and Mindfulness: Draw In Darkness

We judge and criticise ourselves so much that we kill creativity before it has a chance to blossom. So we are going to draw with our eyes closed. In this way we will be able to draw free of any judgment, creating lines, shapes, patterns, whatever we want as the idea comes to us.

Here is a link to the information that I want you to cover in the report of your final project.
https://docs.google.com/a/claytonbradleyacademy.org/document/d/15WtmVBjY05AvNIr2s5M044QcIOT2dBP3CNm9j1SAVQI/edit?usp=sharing

HS Graphics: Create a Poster

Using these templates as your jump-off point, make a poster for something.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/60-amazing-poster-and-advertisment-tutorials/

HS Graphics, Make an Ezine

Using the linked cartoons, you will make a small booklet that tells a story.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5B6pBQBS0KiRmJJUEp2ZVFYVHc?usp=sharing

Volleyball, Aggression on the Court!

What a great first day of training! This is a link to the information that I put out today.

Remember, to get better you just have to do it. So use Five Star and hit each other often!

HS Studio Art, Elements of Art and Principles of Design

With your assigned partner, you will take the given element or principle and do the following:

define it in your own terms
give visual examples appropriate to that element or principle
present that to your peers.

An example:

Form

Form is the three-dimensionality of an object. Shape is only two-dimensional; form is three-dimensional. You can hold a form, walk around a form, and in some cases walk inside a form. Value can imply form in drawings or paintings. Shading a circle in a certain manner can give it the illusion of a sphere.

Visual examples of Form could be to draw and shade correctly the four basic 3D shapes.

- See more at: http://www.incredibleart.org/files/elements.htm#sthash.abgMewAE.dpuf

MS STEAM Lab A, Name Animation

Welcome to our new class!

This semester we are going to focus on using your MacBook as a tool for animation. Animation is sometimes a thing moving across the screen, like a ball--or balls.

But animation means moving anything! You can really enrich the projects you create and the work you submit through animation!

So, your first project is going to be to animate your name. We are going to use use Autodesk SketchBook Pro's new FlipBook feature. You'll start there and then export your animation to iMovie after adding sounds and music to complete augment your animation. You'll then post it onto your school YouTube account.

We will start here: https://docs.google.com/a/claytonbradleyacademy.org/presentation/d/13apseMmaLtKipEuP0L8WC2oqKtJfaDYtMGIcC3mAtxA/edit?usp=sharing

HS Graphics, Faux Album Cover

You will create a band/musician/sound artist and design an album cover that exemplifies the music made.

MS STEAM B, Animated Commercial

Your mission is to rework this contract to meet the needs of your group!

https://docs.google.com/a/claytonbradleyacademy.org/document/d/16sndKzOwQx-7TY-JrurV2bvWoD3OTBCChaWMXQifidI/edit?usp=sharing

Your first project is a 30 Second commercial about CBA.

You must:
Write a script.
Storyboard.
Have audio.
Have credits.

HS STEAM Lab, Cardboard Tutorials

Your mission is to, with your assigned partner, you will create an Instructable that teaches others how to do a thing with cardboard.

Instructions from the Instructables web site: Cardboard is so plentiful that we often overlook it and throw it away. Instead of bundling it up for recycling, grab a box or two and see what you can create for the Cardboard Contest! Prizes for this contest are graciously provided by Howtoons!

Tape, cut, score, and construct your way to the top and you could win a Howtoons subscription and Canon PowerShot camera! It doesn’t matter how you use the cardboard, as long as you incorporate it into your Instructable you can enter it for a chance to win and be King or Queen of crafting with cardboard!

Only 35 days left to enter the Cardboard Contest 2017!

MS STEAM Lab: Google SketchUp Animation Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJyLxBgI1NM

HS Studio Art: A Spider on the Ceiling

Think about the one point perspective that we went over. The important considerations are the vanishing point, horizon line, and the fact all parallel lines go to the vanishing point.

If you put a box around the telephone poles you can put them into one point perspective as well.

Your mission is to draw our STEAM Lab from a bird's eye perspective. Don't let the idea of the project confuse you because it is exactly the same as the railroad tracks! You'll only have to imagine yourself on the center of the ceiling looking down into the center of the room!

HS Art and Mindfulness: Reflections to This Point

This week is your last blog post for the quarter! And next week is the last week! What!

Due next Friday is a one-page reflection on the year to this point. Let me know your thoughts, concerns, criticisms, suggestions, suppositions...

Do this on a Google Doc and share it with me. It is due Friday, March 10!

HS STEAM Lab: Paper Chair

Your mission is to engineer a paper chair using the following criteria.

You will get 150 sheets of construction paper.
You will get 2 rolls of tape.
The chair has to have four legs.
The chair must be 24" high.
It must hold a secret somebody for greater than 30 seconds while that someone has her legs raised.

If more than one team succeeds, the victor will be determined by the team that has the most sheets of paper left over.

Digital Citizenship: Share Your Smarts

An important aspect of Global Digital Citizenship concerns sharing knowledge. You know you're bucking for that four in your classes! So in order to teach others why not set up an online study group? Or create an ebook! How about a vlog?

Your mission will be to get into the below teams and, using the given platforms, tell your peers why it is the best one to use.

1. Garyn, Chrystian, and Kris

2. Hannah and Cobey

3. Aslynn, Chase, and Max

What makes each platform interesting, unique, and informative?

Platforms:

record a podcast episodehttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opinion-podcasts-record-edit-share/id926260308?mt=8--1
host a web page
create a video for YouTube channel--3
write a wiki
design an ebook or a white paper--2
start a blog

HS STEAM Lab: Using Our Ability to Fold, Make This...

You will create a device that does good in the world. That device can be any material. The device should quadruple in size.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/origami-revolution.html

HS Graphics: Propaganda

We will spend the next week or so making a propaganda poster.

This means that you will have to take a stance against or for something that you love or hate!

"The super-human Mao, overseeing the immeasurable crowds of his faithful supporters. Below left an ecstatic group carries a dish of mangoes, symbolizing the seven mangoes Mao received from a foreign delegation in 1968, and presented to carefully selected 'Worker-Peasant Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams'."

You will conceive of and design a propaganda poster. The poster must be at least 11 x 8.5 inches in either direction, and the resolution should be 300 dpi and in CMYK color mode. Important considerations are the use of color, images, and words, as they are applied to the making of a poster.