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Second grade students have just begun a new IB unit involving weather. This week's learning has been all about air. To go along with this topic, we painted with air in the Art room! Each table had some watered-down paint and some eyedroppers. The goal was to get the paint on the paper and then move it around using ONLY air- no brushes, no fingerpainting. I demonstrated several ways of using air (blowing gently, blowing concentrated air through a straw, fanning a puddle with a piece of cardboard) and then it was the students' turn to experiment! After a few minutes, I stopped them and we had a quick discussion. I asked them what they noticed about how the air worked. One student volunteered that if you blew gently, the paint moved slowly, and if you blew really hard, the paint moved very fast and spread out much further! I was really proud when a student used the word "force" to describe the difference!
Then I asked them what they thought this had in common with weather. They immediately connected it to the wind. We compared the force we used to blow the air to the wind's strength during different weather conditions. They were able to make comparisons between the gentle blowing being like a calm breeze, and the forceful blowing being like hurricane-level winds! We also had to talk a little about color theory... I had given the students red, yellow, and blue paint and the colors swirled and mixed as it moved on the paper. We had a quick review of the concepts behind primary colors (red, yellow, blue) and secondary colors (orange, purple, green- the colors that are made when the primaries mix.) It was a fun day with lots of memorable learning!
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