Curriculum Integration Project

For my curriculum integration project I plan on creating a web quest that I will be able to use with my fifth grade art students. The title will be "What kind of Artist are you?' and the quest will be to research several different contemporary artists and their styles of art.After researching several different sites provided and looking through images students will choose just one to research in more detail. Once the student visits specific sites explaining the work of the artist they choose, they will be instructed to choose their favorite work and write a short essay explain what they liked about the artist they choose and why. I will have the students Included some biographical information about the artist and choose a piece created by that artist that they found most inspiring. Once a student has completed the webquest they will be instructed to make a work of art using the art room materials in the style of the artist they chose to write about. For example if a student decided to study Roy Lichtenstein, then after writing about his life and work, they will create an image in Liechtenstein's style using pointillism and comic book techniques. 
I think that this type of web-quest is going to fit very nicely into my curriculum. With each new unit I start I typically connect the art with cross curricular content and history as well. By creating web-quests such as these I will be able to allow the students to have a more interactive role with exploring the art forms of different cultures and different time periods. There are several different movements that have taken place through art history such as; dadaism, cubism. modern and so one. Web -quests will allow my students to investigate these  movements on their own instead of just through a lecture format from me. I think that this will be a great supplementary resource in my classroom for the coming year, and I hope to use the one I create to start a knowledge base on how to make web-quests for the future.