Puzzle People

Name: Sicily McRaven

Course: AED5150 - Computer Graphics for the Art Room

Lesson Plan Title: Puzzle People

Grade Level: 6th -9th grade

Photoshop Level: Beginner

Sessions: 3-4 one hour class periods

Content: Students will be required to perform an image search for five full bodied figures that are classroom appropriate, open theses files in Adobe Photoshop, use selected tools to create a new figure, and then create a character for the person they have made.

Objectives: Please include Michigan Art Education Curriculum Standards

ART.I.VA.M.1 Select materials, techniques, media technology, and processes to achieve desired effects.

ART.I.VA.M.4 Be involved in the process and presentation of a final product or exhibit.

Materials: Computer with Internet access and Photoshop

Introduction: This assignment is a practice exercise to familiarize the students with Adobe

Photoshop basics.

Development & Procedure: Students must follow simple rules to create a person with a persona

in Photoshop.

Accommodations & Adaptations: This assignment could be adapted for younger kids if the pictures are preselected, and adopted to older groups if they make multiple people.Closure: Students will present on the character that they made.

Homework: To be done in class

Assessment: Students will have to present their work in front of the class and be asked simple questions about what they did.

Teacher Reflection:

1. What problems did you encounter (if any) when creating your practice files?

It was somewhat difficult to find full body figures on the internet of real people.

2. What problems did you anticipate your students encountering?

Finding full figures and thinking of pictures they would like to use.

3. How do you plan on managing common student problems (examples could becomputer errors, problems not understanding the lesson, students who become easilyfrustrated)?

Working through those problems when they occur, as well as having different ideas on hand that the students could adapt to their project, being able to walk individual students through the lesson again, ideally they would have access to the PowerPoint tutorial. .

4. How do you anticipate resolving the following situations: absents students who were not there for instruction, students who finish early, students with special needs?

Students who are absent will be shown the tutorial when they appear in class, students who finish early can make another project or study silently, students with special needs will be accommodated for depending on their needs, such as a student who needs more individual attention will get it. Bibliography: www.google.comNo other weblinks.

Tools you will need. . .

Lasso Tools: Located in the tool box, this tool will select an area as you move your mouse across the desired space, kind of like cutting that space out with a knife. There is also the Magnetic Lasso, which will stick along areas of contrast, and the Polygonal Lasso which lets you select geometric shaped areas, kind of like connect the dots.

Move Tool: in the top right corner of the tool box, lets you move any selected area.

Free Transform: under Edit, let you change the shape of your layer

Transform: under Edit, lets you change additional qualities of your layer such as flip horizontal.

Layers: Each piece that you put into your canvas will show up as a separate layer, organized you layers by giving each a different name.

Checklist!!!!!!!

5__ Pieces of FIVE different images used in you new pictures 5__ Organized layers 5__ Name of new picture and written explanation including sources 5__ School appropriate (aka free points for not being lude or violent)10__ Presentation explaining the decisions you made while making you person, you theme, and who this new person is, and what they might do.

____ out of 35 Possible Points