Portraits: Women in Science
An interdisciplinary project with citizenship education and science, involved the 7th grade students in working on the digital processing of the portrait. First of all, … Read more
Murals for our School
Throughout the 2023-24 school year, students worked to create a large mural on the walls of our school. From this year we are organized into … Read more
The still lifes of Felice Casorati: chiaroscuro copy
For this exercise on chiaroscuro we took inspiration from the still lifes of Felice Casorati (Italy 1883 – 1963). Casorati is one of the most … Read more
Woven ribbons: what makes us feel good?
With the seventh grade students we reflected on what makes us feel good at school and how we can improve our well-being at school by … Read more
Mona Lisa, I’m taking you to a place…
Leonardo’s famous Mona Lisa came out of his painting to come and visit us! With the 7th grade students we drew our Mona Lisa and … Read more
Ceramic box with sgraffito
To make these ceramic boxes with the 7th grade students, we first of all designed a paper model, drawing the outlines of each element useful … Read more
Spring Landscape in One Point Perspective
Let’s re-propose the landscape that we can see in this video tutorial in a new spring version: We draw the same sequence of lines starting … Read more
Black & White Cities in Two Points Perspective
To create this urban landscape in two points perspective, with the 7th grade students, we used a graduated frame that you can find here, which … Read more
Emotions in colors
With 7th grade students we had some lessons about Civic Education and Citizenship talking of emotions and expressivity. We were inspired by the book “The … Read more
Negative drawing: Magic Jellyfish
This work made with the 7th Grade students is inspired by the illustrated book ” The Jellyfish Garden” (“Il Giardino delle Meduse”) by Paola Vitale … Read more
Small museum of fallen leaves
For this activity we were inspired by Antonio Catalano’s small picture book “Museum of Fallen Leaves” (advertising link). With this book the author guides us … Read more
Ceramic little house to hang
These ceramic houses were made by seventh grade students with the slab technique. For the main parts of the house (façade and roof) we used … Read more