Sunni Ayers
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  • My Philosophy
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  • Projects
    • Red Hall Gallery
    • Graphic Design
    • Ladies and Friends
    • Stratton Elementary Mural
    • Notes Zine
    • I'm Cooler Than You
    • We (verb) (adverb)
    • Student-Teacher Alliance for Gun Control (STAGC)
    • UIUC Partnership Grant​
  • Artwork
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
    • 2014
    • 2013
    • 2012
    • 2011
    • 2010
  • Home
  • Student Work
    • Art Institute of Chicago
    • UIUC Intro to Art for Non-Majors
    • UIUC Intro to Ceramics for Non-Majors
    • Prairieview-Ogden South Elementary
    • Everyday Arts Lab
    • Uni High School
    • Urbana Park District Arts Camp
    • Centennial High School
    • South Side Elementary
    • Stratton Elementary School
    • Garden Hills Elementary
  • My Philosophy
  • About

Prairieview-Ogden South Elementary

During my Early Field Teaching at The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, I taught a seven week art program for the 6th grade class at PVO South. 

Big Idea that drives Lesson/Unit:
Movement is an everyday occurrence. When we consider the ways and reasons people move, we can get a glimpse of patterns in society and the values of a group of people. By breaking movement down individually, locally, nationally and globally, we can begin to distinguish these patterns and values and convey them through artwork. Understanding these patterns and values and situating ourselves and others within them allows us to understand and gain empathy for others.

Key concepts:
  • Our movements individually, locally, nationally, and globally can tell us things about ourselves and society
  • There are connections and differences to the ways we move and the way people we don’t know move
  • Learning about each other can expand our understanding of others and encourage empathy for others
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The students' sketchbooks.

Project One: How did I get here?

The students were told to illustrate their movements from the time they woke up until the present moment using only line. Funnily enough, some students drew their line to the present movement and then kept the line slowly moving as they continued to exist, until I said the activity was over. 

Project Two: Global Transportation 

For this project, I showed the class time lapse videos from four locations around the world: Amsterdam, Venice, Ho Chi Minh City, and Times Square NYC. Each location has different major forms of transportation that are bicycles, gondolas, motorbikes, and walking/taxis respectively. The students were able to see these forms represented in the videos before choosing a city to investigate further with a handout I had prepared. They drew a birds eye photo of their city on to a large sheet of paper and colored it in a sepia tone. We then made stamps out of styrofoam sheets that corresponded to the main form of transportation in their city. They then stamped them into their cities to convey the movement of the people living there.

Project Three: Zine Swap

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Extra Activity! Future Movements

Students finished Project Three at different rates, so I gave out an extra activity where the students could make there own little zine about a future movement they wanted to make! Here is a couple of examples I was able to sneak a peek at!
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