Art: Expressing Feelings with Light and Sound

Here is an introduction to lessons at CGK Afterschool.

CGK's eight-week-long project works will be based on the main “Driving Question”.

Here are the Driving Questions for this "Art" lesson.

“How can we use light and sound to communicate different kinds of feelings without words?”

We followed this question with fun lessons each week that drew the student's interest.

Here are the comments of Mr. Bobby, the teacher who was in charge of the lessons.

Week 1

This weeks entry event, we talked about feelings and colors and what it means. We watched the movie “Inside out”, an animated movie about our feelings. With the main characters being different colors we talked about what the colors meant and what feelings they represented. We showed them their final project which was a media art project using color, light and sound.

Week 2

I introduced the story “My many colored days” by Dr.Seus and talked about what the colors mean and how for some people some colors could mean different things. We used a work sheet to help with our listening and matching the color with the feelings.

Week 3

We continued from the previous week and the students created a short book titled “My Many Colored Days” and made their own colored days book using the example we read last week.

Week 4

With it being Halloween, we did a Halloween themed lesson. We learned about sound in movies and how people add sound to it. As a class we read the story “The woman who wasn’t afraid of anything.” After reading the story student groups made their own reading of the story adding sound effects that they made. During the presentation time of class each group shared a little bit from their reading and talked about what they used to make the sounds.

Week 5

We learned about the different properties of light. We experimented with different objects and discussed the following terms: Opaque, Transparent, and Translucent. In student groups we read the story of Cat and Squirrel and did experiments with light and how to fix squirrels flashlight. In student groups they had to find different examples of the terms we learned.

Week 6

We again looked at Cat and Squirrel and we learned about the different properties of sound. In students pairs they learned about what a tuning fork is and what it does. They learned how to transfer sound to an object and found different examples of this to use to make sound with the tuning fork. The students learned about soundwaves and how to see them as well as feel them. During presentation time, student pairs shared what they found with the tuning forks.

Week 7

Student groups began to work on their final project picking a song and what kind of colors they plan on using for their final presentation. Student groups picked their song and begin to make their multimedia designs using flashlights and going over the song.

Week 8

For their final project, student groups created a multimedia art project using light, sound, and color. Student groups picked a song and shared their song and the colors they chose, why they chose it and discussed their thoughts with the class.

I was very proud to see each group present their work at the final presentation.

The light and sound artwork that each group came up with was very beautiful.

In the next art project activity, we are learning about "Tiny House".

The students are having fun with their imaginations as they think about what they should consider when designing a house, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of a tiny house.