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Describing Tool: Make your own
Give yourself support to notice & describe the choices that artists make Give yourself support to notice & describe the choices that artists make in your art form. We recommend...
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Use this tool to…
...call attention to the expressive possibilities with your artform
...notice the variety of choices students make.
…help you to describe the variety of choices that students make with specificity.
 
A composite image of the describing tool for torn paper collage and a collage made by a kindergarten students that layers many peices of pink torn paper within two large to create texture and smaller peices of paper in pairs of constrasting colors.
Describing Tool: Torn Paper Collage
Give yourself support to notice & describe your students’ torn paper collages with specificity.
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Describe to...
... encourage curiosity & risk taking in the Explore & Describe Torn Paper Collage lesson.
... see and affirm the imaginative choices that young artists make.
...create a language rich art making environment.
 
A composite image of the the describing tool for drawing with pencil and a child holding their pencil drawing up to the camera. Their marks fill the entire page. They are using a variety of lines to create shapes.
Describing Tool: Drawing
Give yourself support to notice & describe your students’ drawings with specificity
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Use this tool to...
...find specific, rich language to model in the Explore & Describe Drawing with Pencil lesson.
...build language & support kids' in developing their work anytime they are drawing.
 
A composite image: 1) The describing tool for 5 Shapes Collage 2) contrasting expressive puppet face made with 5 shapes. One winking with a crooked smile and one with large round eyes and a downturned mouth. 3)contrasting expressive puppet face made using mostly the crescent shape turned in different directions to create furious expression on one face and icon
Describing Tool: 5 Shapes Many Emotions
Give yourself support to notice & describe the composition choices that students make using just 5 shapes.
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Use this tool to…
…notice and describe the impact of small compositional choices.
...encourage inventive use of spacing, direction and pattern.
…build confidence, language and revision skills.
 
A photo of three students show the feeling scared, but with varied arm gestures while playing the Emotion Statue game. Next to that an image of the describing tool for physical expression.
Describing Tool: Face & Body
Give yourself support to notice & describe physical & facial expression with specificity.
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Use this tool to...
...notice the choices kids make with their entire body and all of their facial features.
...describe the variety of choices that you see with specificity and without judgment.
 
Composite of the desribing tool for music and a violin students sitting in a circle watching the teaching artist demonstrate.
Describing Tool: Music
Give yourself support to notice & describe the variety of musical choices your students’ are making.
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Use this tool to…
...notice the variety of musical choices kids make.
...call attention to the expressive possibilities by describing the variety of choices that you hear with specificity.
…inspire a describing tool for your musical instrument.
 
Describing Tool: Paper Sculptures
Give yourself support to notice & describe the variety of choices students are making while building paper sculptures.
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Use this tool to...
...notice and describe the variety of choices kids are making with specificity & enthusiasm.
...encourage innovation and problem solving.
...create a language rich art making environment.
 
The describign tool for body percussion next to to a photo of a teaching artist clapping a rythm, facing engaged students. Some students are serious and focused on the teaching artist, some are smiling and using their hands and legs to clap and stomp the rythm.
Describing Tool: Body Percussion
Give yourself support to notice & describe the percussive choices children are making.
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Use this tool to…
...notice the variety of percussive choices kids make.
...call attention to the expressive possibilities of percussion by describing the variety of choices that you hear with specificity.
…inspire a describing tool for other percussive instruments.
 
The describing tool for the play how you feel warm up next to a photo of a student bowing a violin to express how they feel. The word 'Notice
Describing Tool: “Play How You Feel” Warmup
Give yourself support to notice & describe the musical choices that kids make to express how they feel. This example was created for violin.
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Use this tool to…
...notice the musical choices kids make to express how they feel.
...call attention to the expressive possibilities of the violin by describing the variety of choices that you hear with specificity.
…inspire a describing tool for your musical instrument.
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