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Min Jin Kim

Mozart Elementary School

Mozart elementary school is a PK - 8 public school in Chicago where I was placed as a visual art student teacher for 2017-18 academic year. Below are the four major projects I taught at the school.

Grade 8 Power of Positive Words Prints
​Central Idea: ​To create a book of collective linoleum prints with positive statements and imageries that depict the statements. 

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Objectives:

  1. Students will learn how to transfer image on to the linoleum block, use carving tool to carve an image on the block and print the image multiple times onto printing papers. (VA:Cr2.3.8a) 

  2. Students will create a positive statement and an image that depicts the statement as their linoleum print design. (VA:Cr2.1.8a) 

  3. Students will combine their classmates’ prints together into a book and share their works by reading their positive statements to each other while looking at the prints together. (VA:Cn10.1.8a) 

Grade 3 to 5 Humorous Creature Soft Sculpture
Central Idea: ​To transform fear into humor by altering physical features of the fear causing subject by creating a soft sculpture using wire and strings

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Objectives:

  1. Students will be able to use newsprint paper, wire and strings to create a balanced form. (VA:Cr:2.2.5a)

  2. Students will be able to confront their fear and transform the fear into humor by altering physical features of the fear causing animal or insect. (VA:Cn:11.1.5a)

  3. Students will be able to write artist statements that explain what they made, how they made it and why they made it. (VA:Cr:3.1.5a) ​

Kindergarten and Grade 1 Pinch Pot Monster
Central Idea: ​To create an imaginative pinch pot monster using ceramic clay and acrylic paints

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Objectives:

  1. Students will be able to translate their imagination of a monster into a physical object. (VA:Cr1.1.Ka)

  2. Students will be able to create a pinch pot for the body, use additive technique for the body parts and use acrylic paints to color the monster for detail. (VA:Cr2.1.1a)

  3. Students will be able to describe their artworks by identifying the features of the monster and tell short story about where the monster appears in their room. (VA:Re7.2.Ka)

Kindergarten and Grade 1 Emotion Masks

Central Idea: To investigate an emotion by making a paper plate mask using oil pastels and by expressing the emotion using physical gestures

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Objectives:

  1. Students will be able to make a paper plate mask with a facial expression that represents an emotion.

  2. Students will be able to fill the whole space of the plate with oil pastels. 

  3. Students will be able to further their understanding of the emotion by expressing the emotion through physical gestures.

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