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Scribble Drawing: Warm and Cool Colors Assignment

I am teaching a Cubism Unit with my middle schoolers when they come back from break and I created a Video with step by step instructions to help them with the project.

Learn how to make a cubism inspired scribble drawing.

Materials:

- pencil

- paper

- 6 colors: 3 warm (red, orange, yellow) and 3 cool (green, blue, purple) (I also used black and brown markers)

Step one: Scribble all over the paper Step two: Find a representational object within your scribbles Step three: Use either warm or cool colors to fill in the shapes. I used warm colors to fill in the bird Step four: Use your remaining colors to fill in the shapes in the background. Optional final step: Outline your object for more contrast!

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SketchTogether

Sketch with others in real time. Meet and discuss informally sketched ideas.

SketchTogether is an online real time canvas that you and other friends can use to create artwork collaboratively from where ever you may be during this pandemic. Sketch Together requires you to make an account but it is free! From there you can invite your friends to add shapes, draw pictures, insert images, and add text. The website gives you about an hour to create and if you need more time after that then you can always create another one!

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Piklr E

I have been hearing about Piklr since the beginning of online learning and am just know learning the in's and out's of the program. Pixlr E (for photo editing) is an extremely easy program to use. I was happy with how intuitive the program was and found that I could make really simple collages using the program. there are all the basic tools that you would find in photoshop but they are more clearly labeled. I was easily able to select specific things from pictures I had taken and collage them into a piece that I was happy with. The one thing I really like about the program is that it automatically saves projects that students are working on so if they accidently close their computer or their battery runs out then their work is still there for them after.

Photo Editor : Pixlr.com - free image editing online

Looking for advanced photo editing capabilities right in your browser, Pixlr E is the next generation photo editor! No installation and regi

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Kahoot!

"Kahoot! is a game based learning platform that allows you to create and play learning games, trivia, and quizzes." I used Kahoot! as a last day wrap up with my middle schoolers at the end of the quarter. The questions were based around things that we learned in class. Kahoot! records the answers of each player and then gives you a break down of the scores so you can see what students struggled with what concepts and later use that to improve your teaching.

Welcome back to Kahoot! for schools

Make learning awesome together! Kahoot! for schools is our new offering that helps teachers collaborate, save time and create more engaging

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Brush Ninja

"Brush Ninja is a super simple animated gif creator" it is free to use and runs in any web browser. The paint brushes pencil, smooth, dots, dashes, speed, marker, and scratch. Brush Ninja also allows the user to add shapes, text, and different lines. You can choose from a range of colors and a transparency. At the bottom of the page you can add frames to create an animation and play it back. At the top of the page you can create new things, save projects, export finished work, and open things you are working on.

Brush Ninja

Create animations in your browser, on your desktop or phone, for free. No software needed.

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Scribble.io

Scribble.io is a fun drawing game for students to play when they have finished all of their work and are looking to do something as a group during this pandemic. Scribble.io helps support Language Arts because students are learning new words and practicing spelling. It also challenges students to draw from their memory and think about how to depict things in various ways. Below is a screenshot from a public game that I was playing. If you have students or friends that want to play then you should do a private game because not everyone uses kind language on the public servers.

Skribbl Io | Scribbles Io

Each user takes their turn to draw - there are other players present in the game too who can participate in the game chat. The chosen user h

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Photopea

Photopea is a photo editing software that is similar to photoshop but is free!! Photopea is a web based program that allows the user to open images, cut, copy, erase, and change the colors of layers. There is also a filter gallery which enables the user to add artistic textures. Photopea does not automatically save the users work so you must make sure to always save while working. Photopea allows the user to save as a PSD (photoshop file) or a JPEG/PNG.

Photopea Online Photo Editor lets you edit photos, apply effects, filters, add text, crop or resize pictures. Do Online Photo Editing in you

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Google Drawings

If you have a google account then you have access to Google Draw! Google Drawings is a free program, offered through google, that allows users to create drawings, trace images, insert shapes, and more. I used google draw to make my profile icon. I started with a picture of myself and then used the polyline to make shapes and color them accordingly. To access google drawings go to your dive, hit the new button, then scroll down to more, located under google forms, and there should be an option for google drawings. Google Drawings automatically saves to your drive when you're done working!

Google Drawings

Create shapes and diagrams

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MandalaGaba

MandalaGaba is a mandala creation program that allows users to play around with color, brush size, symmetry and asymmetry. MandalaGaba automatically saves your designs so you can open the tab and continue creating where you left off.

MandalaGaba is a free online mandala creation suite for designing, sharing and collaborating on mandalas, drawings, sketches, doodles and wo

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Origami!

This website has hundreds of easy step by step origami instructions for students to follow along with. You can search by level and type of object!

Looking for very simple origami for kids? These easy instructions will help your kids fold fun origami in just a few simple steps.

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Weave Silk

Interactive generative art

Under options you can choose which color you want. You can also click and drag from one color to another to blend colors together. There is an option for rotational symmetry, Mirroring across the center and spiraling towards the center.

Silk – Interactive Generative Art

Create beautiful flowing art with Silk.

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Artsonia

An online art platform that teachers use to showcase their students' work. Artsonia’s gallery contains student art from grades PK-12 . Parents and teachers can buy merchandise with their child's work on it. Their mission is to bring communities together and celebrate children's artistic expressions. “We work with art teachers worldwide to create online school art galleries and student digital portfolios.” students write artist statements where they can talk about their artwork.

Artsonia is a gallery of student art portfolios where young artists (grades PK-12) display their art worldwide. We have a vibrant community

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Ed Puzzle

Ed Puzzle is an online program teachers can use to create interactive video lessons for students to use. You can choose a pre-existing video or upload your own and make them interactive for students by embedding open ended or multiple choice questions, audio notes, audio tracks, or comments on a video.

Edpuzzle | Make Any Video Your Lesson

Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with has

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Mr. Doob: Harmony

Harmony starts the user off with a blank canvas to experiment with. The program has two colors, The pen color and the background color, which you can change. There is a drop down menu with different pen textures that you can choose from including sketchy, shaded, chrome, fur, long fur, web, simple, squares, ribbon, circles, and grid. The speed of the mouse controls the size and weight of the pen.

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Mr. Doob: Spin Painter

Another program from Mr. Doob that has some nostalgia for all of the kids who played with those paint spinners as kids. Spin Painter spins the screen, at a speed chosen by you, and plops down paint of different sizes, also controlled by you, to create designs. The only thing about this program is that you cannot choose the colors you use, they automatically cycle through, but it is fun to play around with nonetheless.

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Mr. Doob: Voxels

When I tell my students about Mr. Doob: Voxels I compare it to mine craft because they both use colorful blocks to build worlds. Voxels gives you 9 colors that you can use to build with. Click to add blocks, shift and click to remove blocks, drag the screen to rotate your work, and press 0-9 to change the colors.

You can also use the arrow keys to move your entire design around.

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Magic Poser

Magic poser is an open source figure posing program that allows you to choose between female and male figures and also gives the option for anime figures with different proportions such as 1:5, 1:6 and. 1:7. This website allows the user to move the body, change the hand positioning, hair, perspective, and add objects like blocks, cones, and stairs.

This program would be good to use if you have students that are having trouble finding the poses they want. It is also available as an app