Being the Art Teacher is great!
Normally!
One of the hardest things that I need to teach my students is how to respond to art work with something other than, "That's Cool!"
Using a game often referred to as Token Response students were introduced to a number of famous and not so famous artworks. They were also given 8 different tokens to place on the artwork.
Tokens ranged from a heart to represent like, to a dollar sign that represented which artwork they thought would cost the most.
Placing tokens.
Discussing artworks and sharing ideas (Which happened a lot!)
And finally sharing why they made the choices that they did!
As an introduction to art criticism, these 7th graders did great!
