Art education game plan

in the beginning of the semester in Theory and Practice Joe, Tanya, and i created a board game based off twister to help us create future lesson plans. this idea of creating a game out of a very complex task helps make a more what i think creative lesson plan for the students. we ended up calling it Inspiration Weaver, and it goes a little something like this:

•  Rules and Categories:

Inspiration Weaver

Created by Julia Osterhoudt, Tanya Hamm, and Joe Leisure

 Value  

Pre-determined Gender Roles

Empathy

Economic Equality

Identity

Peace

Multi-cultural

 Medium 

Painting

Photography

Printmaking

Drawing

Mixed medium

Ceramics

 Concept

Gaze

Appropriation

Layering

Hybridity

Juxtaposition

Recontextualization

 Manipulation

Tearing

Stacking

Carving

Melting

Puncturing

Stamping

Official Inspiration Weaver Rules

Are you an art teacher in need of some inspiration for a lesson? Do you have no idea where to even begin? Well here is game just for you.

Inspiration Weaver is a game to help aid art teachers in creating lesson plans for their students. It is divided into four categories: Concept, Values, Manipulation, and Medium. Each of these sections has corresponding elements that can help any art teacher create a fun, and inspirational lesson plan. Continue towards instructions to see where to begin.

Setting up the Game

1.    Begin by spreading the game mat face up on a flat surface; this can be either indoors or outdoors.

2.    All players must take off their shoes so that you don’t destroy the game mat.

3.    You should designate an extra person as the inspirational spinner. The extra person is not considered a player; during the game, this extra person will spin the spinner, call out the moves to the other players, and monitor the game play.

4.    Each player will begin by facing each other from opposite ends of the mat.

How to Play

            The designated inspirational spinner will spin the spinner, and then call out the body part and the color that the arrow points too.

●     Each player must try to place the body part that was called out on an empty circle of the color that the inspirational spinner announced. If one of your body parts is already on a circle of the color that was announced, you must then try to move that body part to another circle of the same color.

●     There can never be more than one body part on any one circle.

●     If all 6 circles of a color are already covered by other player’s body parts, then the inspirational spinner must then spin the spinner again until the spinner lands onto a different color.

How to Win

            Once you have four of your body parts on all four categories at once you can now begin to make an inspirational lesson plan that includes one of the elements from the four categories. Then everyone wins!!!