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My first attempt was with copper tape and SMD LEDs. Fail. My second attempt was with copper tape and Chibitronic LED stickers. Not bad, but I thought it might be too much of a dexterity issue to get them onto canvas. Fail. My third attempt had me stripping copper wire and twisting LEDs. Success!!! But…way too difficult for young kids. Not to mention all of those exposed wires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963117801-TW9W3KAB5WFXKDU88FZZ/IMG_2089.jpg Teaching - LED Constellation Art - Background Knowledge For my class, I was lucky enough to have two sessions that lasted an hour and a half. This left plenty of time for discussion and work time. On the first day, we talked about a variety of constellations, but I asked them over and over again, “what do you notice?” I wanted them to see that the night sky was made up of many different colors. There were heavy concentrations of stars in certain areas, but depending on the time, or location that the picture was taken, the stars might have been a light sprinkling. I wasn’t teaching about the constellations (thank goodness), merely reinforcing the other lessons they were getting from the head of the Planetarium (the guy with the PhD in Astronomy). Thankfully, I found the series, ‘Crash Course for Kids,’ and showed my students the videos on groups of stars and the one on how to locate constellations. Since we were painting and doing other art activities on the first day of camp, I wanted to draw their attention to the colors and patterns. To truly observe. The students finished their canvases that first day and by our second session, they were dry and ready to light up. On that second day, I turned my focus to discussing circuits, LEDs and coin cell batteries. I even brought my homemade circuit blocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963118540-ML63TT9DQQCKOLRGK9Y0/IMG_2196.jpg Teaching - LED Constellation Art - How to Circuits Work? Since I really wanted to make this an art & tech project, I built the second day’s lessons around circuits and batteries. We started with a discussion on what they knew about LEDs and coin cell batteries, passed out some single LEDs and watched these two videos from Adafruit’s Circuit Playground: B is for Battery and D is for Diode. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963118175-HEP9SKPQC8259N8PAUTB/IMG_2093.jpg Teaching - LED Constellation Art - Putting it all Together We unwrapped the micro LED light sets, and everyone put in the batteries to make sure the lights worked. Surprisingly, they all did. The coordinators felt that it was safer if the adults used the exacto knives to cut into the canvases, so the kids marked their starts by a little “x.” Then, off they went to the pre-heated hot glue guns to secure the lights to their canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963116641-RR64E8QNAP8Y4DJDRFQ9/IMG_2083.jpg Teaching - LED Constellation Art - Supplies 8 x 10 art canvas Paintbrushes & Palette Toothbrush for flicking on glitter Paint (see picture below) Newspapers or butcher paper to cover table Hot glue gun and glue Exacto knife Pencil for tracing constellation Tracing Paper Carbon paper Paper to test carbon paper Micro LED string of lights https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1591040231776-AV4FLWZCGAI821ST55ZA/IMG_2102.jpg Teaching - LED Constellation Art - Instructions Hand out small bits of carbon paper and let the kids figure out how it works. Choose a constellation from one of the activity books or draw your own. Trace or draw your constellation onto the tracing paper. Set aside. Note – If drawing, be sure your constellation fits in the middle of the canvas. BE MINDFUL of the wooden frame. The lights have to poke through from the back. Place the carbon paper (dark side down) in the middle of the canvas. Set your traced constellation on top and retrace the constellation with your pencil. Remove the carbon paper and see that your constellation is on your canvas. Circle the stars so that students know to paint around them. Have students write their name on the back of the canvas. Include the name of the constellation, direction and months that you can find it in the sky. Example: Cygnus, December – February, facing North Play around with the paints – mix orange and blue and see how you can get darker blue. Add gray to black, what happens? You can mix glitter paint into the black to get very subtle sparkles. Paint your canvas. Paint the sides first so they can dry. Take your canvas outside and bring along the toothbrush, the glitter paint and some red paint. Love the red stars. The stiff bristles on an old toothbrush are used to make a nice splatter effect of stars. Set aside and let dry for 24 hours. https://www.lizgreaser.com/teaching/led-embroidered-art monthly 0.5 2020-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963127169-TS55INXNCFAIGT94ZBHC/IMG_2269.jpg Teaching - LED Embroidered Art - LED Embroidered Art I was messing around with a conductive ink pen and some leftover Chibitronic LED stickers. Voila! What if I hand-embroidered a picture and found a way to light it up? First, I brainstormed something to embroider on card stock. I was inspired by fireworks, so I drew out the pattern and made sure to poke holes in the card stock (with my needle) before I tried to embroider. I also determined where I would put the LED lights. I knew I wanted them in the middle of my embroidered fireworks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963128273-BDS44N2QQ0PV940CVRA9/IMG_2291.jpg Teaching - LED Embroidered Art - Adding the Lights After I finished the embroidery, I started work on the LED lights. I knew I needed parallel circuits to power the three LEDs, so I sketched out my circuit path onto another piece of cardstock. I made sure to mark where the LEDs would line up. Then, after a little bit of testing and rummaging through my electronics stash, I came up with a Lilypad battery holder (with embedded on/off switch) and some conductive thread. After a failed attempt at soldering the thread to the conductive ink, I settled for a piece of Scotch tape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963129269-DDLXJHI1HTCL31G94UOL/IMG_2294.jpg Teaching - LED Embroidered Art - Conductive Ink Draw the lines with the conductive ink and be sure to mark the positive and negative flow of energy. The LED stickers have to placed in a certain way for the bulbs to light up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1591038394927-6TD8U3RZ38KB8K8GA59L/IMG_2295.jpg Teaching - LED Embroidered Art - Voila! Place the LED card behind the embroidered card and enclose in a frame, making sure to allow the battery to be connected to the backside of the frame. That’s the purpose of the conductive thread. Hot glue the battery holder onto the back of the frame and your light-up LED embroidered art project is ready to display. Feel free to “wow” friends, in-laws, and hopefully, the parents of the kids you teach. https://www.lizgreaser.com/teaching/led-sticker-art monthly 0.5 2020-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963140941-9S8GFX01FK52RMY0AHIE/IMG_3161-1024x768.jpg Teaching - LED Sticker Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963145040-45DJZG4RHU3PRHQZ0P6R/IMG_3176-1024x768.jpg Teaching - LED Sticker Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963142292-ZSZUSHFA62LFC5ST2A0D/IMG_3175-768x1024.jpg Teaching - LED Sticker Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963142169-A79AZFV5T5DIV937ULRZ/IMG_3172.jpg Teaching - LED Sticker Art https://www.lizgreaser.com/teaching/embroidered-pin-card monthly 0.5 2020-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963121440-HZ7ZFPAHMDIRK64GIQAS/IMG_2202.jpg Teaching - Embroidered Pin & Card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963122378-FUW045406MIXHRXUZQM2/IMG_2223.jpg Teaching - Embroidered Pin & Card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963122141-ZOPQTT2S2QR44LQ4SARM/IMG_2224.jpg Teaching - Embroidered Pin & Card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963123142-O7SN1D3UAD8HO4QZLXT5/IMG_2243.jpg Teaching - Embroidered Pin & Card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963123577-CKZJDK57TAKT4ANHWYNR/IMG_2245.jpg Teaching - Embroidered Pin & Card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963123778-3QJFC0YZB3XYADOBXKHE/IMG_2246.jpg Teaching - Embroidered Pin & Card https://www.lizgreaser.com/teaching/mind-maps-for-learning monthly 0.5 2020-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963153740-4UOUKKLV80CX1QSI2655/IMG_3831-1024x768.jpg Teaching - Mind Maps for Learning - Step 1: Take Notes A really good mind map starts with written notes. I teach my students to use the Cornell Method for taking notes since it provides an easy way to quiz yourself (and research shows that quizzing yourself is one of the most effective ways to learn the material). These aren’t in Cornell format, but I don’t need to quiz myself on the material…I merely want a reference for later. Step Two: Pick Out the Key Points As with most books, typically, you don’t need to memorize everything you read. Pick out the key points that you want to remember. It could be key dates or relationships. For my book, The Magic Words by Cheryl B. Klein, I wanted to remember some of the many tips she gave for crafting a successful children’s book. She has so much useful information, one could do a mind map on each chapter. I want something inspiring to hang over my desk. To nudge me when I get stuck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1591036656217-ZVMJ6XQ17FIEAO0G4X3J/IMG_3830.jpg Teaching - Mind Maps for Learning - Step Three: Make a Rough Draft Now that I have the information, I need figure out how to organize it on piece of paper. Plus, I want to think about how to draw some visuals to go along with it. Visuals tend to stick in our minds better than words. According to Sketchnote Handbook author Mike Rhode, you don’t have to be an artist to make your notes more visually appealing. But since I like to draw, I’ve added in some sketches. For my first draft, I had to figure out how I was going to fit everything on the page. I knew I wanted to focus on the elements of crafting a good story, so I made sure to devote a large part of paper to those concepts. This is super messy and sat in my book while I gathered more notes, hence the creases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1590963151569-J9UWSQH4XVM50SYN1QDJ/IMG_3822-1024x768.jpg Teaching - Mind Maps for Learning - Step Four: Pencil, Then Pen Since I like to change my mind a lot, I use a mechanical pencil to complete my final mind map. After I’m happy with the placement of information, I’ll use a variety of ink pens to outline the material. My current favorites are these Micron pens, purchased at my local art store. I like the variety of pens — each with a smaller nib. The 001 size was perfect for the fine writing I needed to include. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed3d1d45fb252240296f71e/1591034594518-R07QP9KE487V97HUX1VK/IMG_3826-1024x768.jpg Teaching - Mind Maps for Learning - Step Five: Add Color Once I outline everything in black, I like to go back and add color. In fact, this is probably my favorite part. I love a good coloring project. I used Faber-Castell Polychromos color pencils to complete the map. https://www.lizgreaser.com/teaching/drawing monthly 0.5 2020-06-01