This lesson is important for students to learn and appreciate each other’s differences and similarities in a supportive atmosphere of teamwork, by focusing on cooperation rather than competition. Students create a large colored pencil rendering of a butterfly composed as a mosaic, using grid drawing to enlarge and help improve accuracy of drawing.

Overview The heart is one of the wisest organs. Your heart actually contains neurons, similar to those in your brain, and your heart and brain are closely connected, creating a symbiotic whole. “Listen to your heart” is an old saying that can bring you much happiness. The heart is all about our relationships. Think of all the types of relationships you have in your life: your parents, a partner, you may be a parent, friendships, colleagues or even our processions. Most importantly, the relationship you have with yourself. As an Art teacher the heart presents a wonderful challenge for your students. In this Art project, students share their heart with Art. This exercise is about healing the heart; it also helps by giving you tools to stay balanced and connected. The Assignment Draw your human heart and embellish it with imagery related to what is in your heart (what you hold close to you/what is important to you or what you feel in your heart). Students may choose their preferred media possibilities: graphite, ink, colored pencil, collage, watercolor or mixed media. Objectives · Expose students to creative thinking processes. · Give students the opportunity to create using their imaginations and creativity. · Students are visually able to express an emotion or feeling through drawing and color. · Define and appropriately use the term “active imagination.” · Identify ways artists convey personality in nonfigurative drawings. · Recognize similarities and differences in visual and verbal expression. · Learn and explore the use of mixed media in art.

Description Ask your students to form two teams and have them move their chairs forward to form two groups facing the board. After explaining the game and modelling the roles if necessary, ask for one player from each team to move his or her chair forward again and turn it to face his or her group. These players then sit in their chairs (now ‘hot seats’) with their backs to the board. Show the first word on the projector, making sure the players in the ‘hot seats’ can’t see it. After you say ‘Go!’, The student on the hot seat will ask questions about the word on the board and the group members will only answer YES or NO. EXAMPLE : •Is it a place? •Is it a fruit? •Is it an animal? •Is it a thing? •Is it an action? •Is it a person? •Is it an adjective? •Is it a name? The team that takes the shortest time to answer gets the winning point. The two players in the ‘hot seats’ then swap seats with another member of their respective teams. After writing the second word on the board, say ‘Go!’ again, and so on. The game continues until all the words have been used, with the team having the most points at the end of the game winning.