Energizing Collages

ReNEW Schaumburg

Middle School Community Based Instruction &  Autistic Support

Ms. Mia & Ms. Wildy

Student Artists in Ms. Wildy’s class have been working hard to learn and comprehend new vocabulary.  For this arts-integrated lesson, we learned about the different types of ENERGY and how they can change things in our ENVIRONMENT!  After checking in by sharing if we were feeling HIGH ENERGY or LOW ENERGY, we reviewed our vocabulary and read a story about characters using heat energy and electrical energy.  Using the ASL sign for energy- we applied some of our creative dramatics skills to create PANTOMIMES for what happened in the story when energy was used to change something.  We then created a SYMBOL for energy and students broke up into 2 groups to create a collage to demonstrate what happens to a flashlight or a pot of water when energy is applied.  Students chose color palettes to represent light and steam to finish their pieces!