End of the First Semester

The first semester is coming to a close, and so is 7th Grade Art.  I will be seeing our HES 8th Graders again once each week for the rest of the school year.

Our last project in 7th Grade Art integrated Science and Art.  Seventh grade students studied one-celled organisms this year.  I have always been amazed at the beauty of one-celled organisms, such as diatoms.  I showed students photos of these microscopic creatures, painstakingly arranged on slides by scientists.  Students chose one organism to draw.  They painted ceramic tiles with three layers of glaze.  They scratched  a repeated design of their chosen diatom or other single-celled organism into the glaze.  The tiles were then fired.

See more student examples at www.Artsonia.com