Project Based Learning Electives provided by the Berrien Springs Virtual Academy
GVNCP: Art Classes Fall 2022
Students and teachers must be able to readily switch to online instruction at any point in the semester in order to register for classes. All students must complete a project for this class.
Teacher: Zoe Elrick 269-612-8172
galienvalley@gmail.com
www.z-hub.org/galienvalleyncp.html
Format: Virtual for Backyard Art and in person for Nature and Community Arts
8 weeks, 2-hour class periods
Ages 5+
***Please email instructor that you signed up for this class.***
Backyard Art Zoom
Location: Zoom meeting
Thursdays, 12:30 to 2:30 PM, Sept 22 to Nov 10
Description: Class is mostly indoors, but students will visit their outdoor backyard too. This class is both informative and fun! Explore your own backyard. Draw nature and things in your backyard. Start or expand your Nature Journal. Drawing the things of nature helps people to learn about nature. This is a drawing class, a nature class, and a show-n-tell class. On Zoom, talk with classmates about your art, nature journal, and nature in your backyard. In class, we’ll draw things such as sticks, leaves, snowy features, tracks, animals, the backyard landscape, backyard map, etc. Each day of class, there will be a few different drawing activities, indoors, as well as one or two nature-exploration activities, outdoors, in your backyard. There will be a lot of free-hand sketching, as well as some tracing too. Plus, students will write at least a little about their backyard and sketches, in their Journal. Parents may help with writing for young students.
Recommended: during class, at least for the first few days of class, parents should assist students with Zoom and the class, for students who are under age 12.
Teacher provides web page with sheets for student to print out at home.
(Required) Required to bring to class (provided by student/family):
1. Smart phone, iPad, and or computer (laptop or desktop) with Zoom software. Computer is ideal. 2. Dress for indoors, and have outdoor apparel handy, class is mostly indoors, with visits to the outdoors in the backyard.
3. Digital camera or smart phone to take outdoor photos. Be able to email about 4 photos to instructor, each week. Photos are not necessarily taken every day of class, but it's good to be prepared.
4. Printer to print out sheets art projects.
Every week, print 3 new sheets, before the class period starts on Thursday.
5. clipboard
6. 3-ring binder for art journal / nature journal and a hole puncher
7. lined paper 8.5 x 11”
8. unlined paper 8.5 x 11” (printer paper)
9. tracing paper 8.5 x 11” (25 sheets)
10. pencils,
11. colored pencils
12. colored pens
13. markers
14. optional: an assortment of soft and hard artist pencils (e.g. 2H, 2B, 4B) - just a 4 pencil set or a set with more pencils. Or just the 2B pencil. Optional: especially the 2B pencil can be used in class.
Syllabus
Nature and Community Arts
Location: Fernwood Botanical Gardens, Niles (membership required to enter Fernwood- this fee is not paid for by the partnership)
Wednesdays 3 to 5 PM, Sept 21 to Nov 9
Class is all outdoors. Dress for weather. Class will not be indoors.
This class is both informative and fun! Come enjoy Fernwood, explore its natural habitats, as well as make art: nature-art. Learn about nature, cultures, communities, and art through a variety of hands-on nature-exploration skills and art skills. Bring the family and a blanket, it’s a family picnic style class. One or two parents (or adult relatives) must attend class with student(s) ages 10 and younger, per family. One or two parents (or adult relatives) may attend class with student(s) ages 11 and older, per family. Nature and Community Arts Topics include: making many aspects of a community from scratch from nature; Debris Hut Shelter; Water Filter and Purification; Fire-Making; Food and Foraging; Plant Identification; Cleaning; Community Culture; Landscape Stewardship; Community and Art in Harmony with Nature; up to 17 Nature and Community Art Skills; and many other arts and relating them to nature. Plus, each class day, students get to enjoy the features and nature of Fernwood. During each class, students will be outdoors, studying nature.
Teacher provides some info sheets
(Required) Required to bring to class (provided by student/family):
Dress for weather, class is all outdoors. Family to bring a blanket to sit on. Bring a drinking water bottle, 3-ring binder, paper, pencils, clipboard.
Optional Materials (provided by student/family) Suggested optional stuff to bring: color pencils, pens, markers, hat, snacks, camera.
Parents Needed to be in Class. Bring the family and a blanket, it’s a family picnic style class. One or two parents (or adult relatives) must attend class with student(s), per family. The parents / adult relatives are to help guide their kid(s) along nature trails.
Students should come to class with a story of the week, briefly talk about something the student saw or experienced outdoors, in nature or a backyard.
Syllabus
*Please note: it is important to make as informed a decision as possible when choosing your student's Community Resource classes. Most locations will allow a student to drop a class after one meeting, at no charge if it wasn't a good fit for the student, but not all. Some classes plan ahead based on the number that have signed up and have purchased materials, hired teachers, etc. and there might be a fee for class time or materials given to the student if the student drops after one or two meetings. The school cannot pay for classes that students do not complete, so choose wisely; if you do not take the class off of your student's schedule by the deadline, you may be asked to pay for the class time incurred prior to dropping the class.
Teacher of Record: Lisa Van Plew-Cid
galienvalley@gmail.com
www.z-hub.org/galienvalleyncp.html
Format: Virtual for Backyard Art and in person for Nature and Community Arts
8 weeks, 2-hour class periods
Ages 5+
***Please email instructor that you signed up for this class.***
Backyard Art Zoom
Location: Zoom meeting
Thursdays, 12:30 to 2:30 PM, Sept 22 to Nov 10
Description: Class is mostly indoors, but students will visit their outdoor backyard too. This class is both informative and fun! Explore your own backyard. Draw nature and things in your backyard. Start or expand your Nature Journal. Drawing the things of nature helps people to learn about nature. This is a drawing class, a nature class, and a show-n-tell class. On Zoom, talk with classmates about your art, nature journal, and nature in your backyard. In class, we’ll draw things such as sticks, leaves, snowy features, tracks, animals, the backyard landscape, backyard map, etc. Each day of class, there will be a few different drawing activities, indoors, as well as one or two nature-exploration activities, outdoors, in your backyard. There will be a lot of free-hand sketching, as well as some tracing too. Plus, students will write at least a little about their backyard and sketches, in their Journal. Parents may help with writing for young students.
Recommended: during class, at least for the first few days of class, parents should assist students with Zoom and the class, for students who are under age 12.
Teacher provides web page with sheets for student to print out at home.
(Required) Required to bring to class (provided by student/family):
1. Smart phone, iPad, and or computer (laptop or desktop) with Zoom software. Computer is ideal. 2. Dress for indoors, and have outdoor apparel handy, class is mostly indoors, with visits to the outdoors in the backyard.
3. Digital camera or smart phone to take outdoor photos. Be able to email about 4 photos to instructor, each week. Photos are not necessarily taken every day of class, but it's good to be prepared.
4. Printer to print out sheets art projects.
Every week, print 3 new sheets, before the class period starts on Thursday.
5. clipboard
6. 3-ring binder for art journal / nature journal and a hole puncher
7. lined paper 8.5 x 11”
8. unlined paper 8.5 x 11” (printer paper)
9. tracing paper 8.5 x 11” (25 sheets)
10. pencils,
11. colored pencils
12. colored pens
13. markers
14. optional: an assortment of soft and hard artist pencils (e.g. 2H, 2B, 4B) - just a 4 pencil set or a set with more pencils. Or just the 2B pencil. Optional: especially the 2B pencil can be used in class.
Syllabus
Nature and Community Arts
Location: Fernwood Botanical Gardens, Niles (membership required to enter Fernwood- this fee is not paid for by the partnership)
Wednesdays 3 to 5 PM, Sept 21 to Nov 9
Class is all outdoors. Dress for weather. Class will not be indoors.
This class is both informative and fun! Come enjoy Fernwood, explore its natural habitats, as well as make art: nature-art. Learn about nature, cultures, communities, and art through a variety of hands-on nature-exploration skills and art skills. Bring the family and a blanket, it’s a family picnic style class. One or two parents (or adult relatives) must attend class with student(s) ages 10 and younger, per family. One or two parents (or adult relatives) may attend class with student(s) ages 11 and older, per family. Nature and Community Arts Topics include: making many aspects of a community from scratch from nature; Debris Hut Shelter; Water Filter and Purification; Fire-Making; Food and Foraging; Plant Identification; Cleaning; Community Culture; Landscape Stewardship; Community and Art in Harmony with Nature; up to 17 Nature and Community Art Skills; and many other arts and relating them to nature. Plus, each class day, students get to enjoy the features and nature of Fernwood. During each class, students will be outdoors, studying nature.
Teacher provides some info sheets
(Required) Required to bring to class (provided by student/family):
Dress for weather, class is all outdoors. Family to bring a blanket to sit on. Bring a drinking water bottle, 3-ring binder, paper, pencils, clipboard.
Optional Materials (provided by student/family) Suggested optional stuff to bring: color pencils, pens, markers, hat, snacks, camera.
Parents Needed to be in Class. Bring the family and a blanket, it’s a family picnic style class. One or two parents (or adult relatives) must attend class with student(s), per family. The parents / adult relatives are to help guide their kid(s) along nature trails.
Students should come to class with a story of the week, briefly talk about something the student saw or experienced outdoors, in nature or a backyard.
Syllabus
*Please note: it is important to make as informed a decision as possible when choosing your student's Community Resource classes. Most locations will allow a student to drop a class after one meeting, at no charge if it wasn't a good fit for the student, but not all. Some classes plan ahead based on the number that have signed up and have purchased materials, hired teachers, etc. and there might be a fee for class time or materials given to the student if the student drops after one or two meetings. The school cannot pay for classes that students do not complete, so choose wisely; if you do not take the class off of your student's schedule by the deadline, you may be asked to pay for the class time incurred prior to dropping the class.
Teacher of Record: Lisa Van Plew-Cid
