Mindfulness Meditation & Dream Art Journaling: Karrie Jackson, Visual Art Teacher
Mindfulness Meditation & Dream Art Journaling
High School, 3 hour Saturday Studio
Students were guided in mindfulness and self-compassion meditations as well as onsite beach meditations and drumming and visualization meditations. Students discussed dream symbolism and interpretation, and analyzed art and films based on dreams and imagination.. Students explored visualizations of meditations and dreams through mixed media in personal sketchbooks.
Student Succulent Garden
Guerrilla Gardening
High School, 3 hour Saturday Studio
Students explored guerrilla gardening culture. Students collaborated on garden designs and planted succulent garden.
Visual Art Curriculum Development Kindergarten through Fifth Grade
Kindness Wheels
Counseling Department-All School Project
Great Kindness Challenge
Students wrote how they give and receive kindness around cut out heart shape. Students used sharpie and watercolor on coffee filters.
Home & Healthy Choices
Conceptual Design
VAPA Visual Art Fifth Grade
Students added creativity to designs about home and healthy choices. Students focused on line and bold colors. They wrote artist statements about their artistic decisions. This lesson was inspired by a student illustrated book We Dream of A World.
Endangered Species
Aboriginal Art
Oil Pastels
VAPA Visual Art Fourth Grade
Students created artwork inspired by Aboriginal Xray Art from Australia. They chose an endangered species and made a silhouette for their design.
We Dream an Education
Printmaking and Collage
VAPA Visual Art Third Grade
Students use recycled newspaper as art, and created a design using a printing technique. They wrote about dreams in education. This lesson was inspired by a student illustrated book We Dream of A World.
Recycled Abstractions
Repurposing Artwork
VAPA Visual Art Second Grade
Using black and white text from magazine we recycled students created a background. They then used art tissue to create an image and liquid starch to stick it to the background.
Peace Collage
We Dream of a Peaceful World
VAPA Visual Art First Grade
Students created artwork using torn paper.
They used a silhouette of their choice to represent peace in the world.
This lesson was inspired by the student written and illustrated book,
We Dream of a World….
Cave Art
Lascaux Caves
VAPA Visual Art Kindergarten
Students learned about Lascaux cave art.
They created their own cave art!
Visual Art Co-Teaching with Home Room Teachers
Various Projects
Discrete Arts and Arts Integration
National Core Standards
District Curriculum for the Arts
Ms. Jackson has co-developed Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) Curriculum for the Coronado Unified School District grades K-5 based from the new National Core Standards. Ms. Jackson has worked with Counseling Departments at both the high school and elementary school level to develop projects that promote positive student culture.