Using our project presentation and by working with various materials, students will understand the deeper aspects and ideas behind truly sustainable practices.

• Comprehend - GLE: 3. Use artmaking processes as forms of inquiry to increase independent reasoning and perception skills to increase knowledge.

• SHoM: Express, Understand the Art World

• Art Learning: Critical reflection/aesthetics/transfer

• Literacy: Students will engage with documentaries and videos to understand the materials that they are working with and their conceptual potential. This utilizes their listening literacy skills as well as their visual literacy skills.

Using various materials such as soil, sand, concrete, and recycled materials, students will create new pieces of art by repurposing, recontextualizing, and ramming their sustainable materials. 

• Create - GLE: 2. Ideate and build works of art and design to demonstrate growth and proficiency in traditional and new art media.

• SHoM: Stretch and Explore

• Art Learning: Techniques: three-dimensional collage, mixing/ramming (rammed earth), and layering soil and sediment.

Using digital drawing technology, students will digitally plan decorative designs that will embellish the 3D forms that they create.

• Create - GLE: 2. Articulate and demonstrate that the making and study of art and design can be approached from a variety of perspectives.

• SHoM: Envision

• Art Learning: Materials: iPads, tablets, Apple Pencils, and Styluses Technique: digital drawing

• Technology: Procreate, Apple Drawing features, other programs that students already have access to

Using the presentation slides, students will learn about waste and sustainable art and architecture and why this needs to be happening as our world environment declines. 

• Comprehend - GLE:  2. Interpret, analyze and explain the influence of multiple contexts found in visual art and design.

• SHoM: Understand Art Worlds

• Art Learning: Historical/multicultural content

• Literacy: Students will learn about waste and sustainable art via a documentary and articles.

Using inquiry questions and presentation slides about equity, earthships, and rammed earth, students will learn about privilege and class divides and they will better comprehend sustainability as costly and only accessible by privileged groups and identities.

• Comprehend - GLE: 3. Use artmaking processes as forms of inquiry to increase independent reasoning and perception skills to increase knowledge.

• SHoM: Observe

• Art Learning: Historical/multicultural content

• Literacy: Students will engage in discussion about who has access to sustainable forces and who does not.

Using the sustainable artmaking practices of contemporary artists that were presented to them by their instructors, students will create sculptures that inform their audience about the importance of sustainable artmaking, as well as promote the process thereof. 

• Create - GLE: 2. Articulate and demonstrate that the making and study of art and design can be approached from a variety of perspectives.

• SHoM: Stretch and Explore, Develop Craft

• Art Learning: Conceptual ideation: Sustainable artmaking Transfer: Techniques of contemporary artists to own practice

Using collaborative efforts, students will experience composing an installation of multiple works from their station practices, to create a space that expresses sustainability.

• Transfer - GLE: 2. Develop proficiency in visual communication skills that extends learning to new contexts

• SHoM: Develop Craft, Engage and Persist

• Art Learning: Installation Techniques: nailing, stapling, grounding, layering, planting 

Using their completed work, students will be able to interpret how sustainability has affected the aesthetic and structure of their work as well as determine how sustainable artmaking can be made equitable for all. 

• Reflect - GLE: 1. Use criteria and personal discernment to evaluate works of art and design, taking into consideration the variables that influence how the work is perceived.

• Transfer - GLE: 3.  Utilize the practice of artmaking, and research historical and cultural contexts, to discern between different viewpoints, critique social problems and effect social change.

• SHoM: Reflect

• Art Learning: Critical reflection

• Literacy: Students will discuss how their work helps them understand the equitable nature of sustainable art making processes.