4750/7750 Lisa Stegall #1

This would be part of a larger unit on books, involving book binding, journal making, altered books and printing process lessons. Under the umbrella of “books”, the students would explore a variety of media and techniques and learn many of the skills required by the standards.

Unit Title- Say What?! Pop Up Book Lesson

“The Popping is as important as the Popped” David Carter

Enduring Ideas- Throughout time and across cultures artists have worked to have successful COMMUNICATION with their viewers.

Course- Foundations

ELO- Understand, apply, experiment and develop fluency with different media. Through the use of a variety of media and techniques, develop a repertoire of visual experiences exhibiting both quality and breadth.

Demonstrate knowledge of and make accurate and appropriate media, technique and surface choices. Show the ability to integrate conceptual and technical approaches in choosing appropriate media and techniques.

Essential Questions

• Are books an endangered species? • How will you explore the intersection of 2-D and 3-D? • How will you integrate the intersection of analog and digital? Hand and

machine? • What are you communicating? How does the pop-up format influence

your communication?

Exemplar Artists- Richard Sabuda, David Carter, Matthew Reinhold, The Moveable Book Society .

Objectives- Artists will be able to:

1. Create a 2-4 page pop up book, with at least 6 working examples of paper engineering.

2. Use the fundamentals of paper engineering to create pop-ups with a variety of shapes and movements.

3. Choose the most effective pop-up techniques for the ideas they are communicating.

4. Investigate and utilize a variety of illustrative techniques, surface decorations, and media for the pop-ups.

Materials- Cardstock, tracing paper, x-acto’s, scissors, markers, pencils, paints, photoshop, illustrator, printers, ink, paper.

Procedures-

• Look at Exemplar artists, and a prezi of pop-up art. • Discussions and brainstorming about Communication. • Workshop introduction of paper engineering possibilities. David Carter book

“The Elements of Pop-up” as in-class exemplar. • In journals, students plan pop-up images and choose movements they want to

use. Draw a storyboard with their ideas. On i-pads, students can watch videos of different paper engineering movements they are interested in.

• Construct experimental movements and play with different effects. • Construct 2-4 page books, with at least 6 working examples of paper

engineering. • Video the students working their pop-ups, showing how the pop-ups pop. • Have a party!

Assessment-

• Journals-to include notes on pop-up artists, communication and paper engineering.

• Storyboard showing which design decisions and compositions were considered. • Technical and Craftsmanship aspects-Does the pop-up pop? This would be

covered by a rubric with space for the comments of at least three student peers, discussing the technical and communication merits of the pop-up.

• Pop up party, last class, to let everyone play with the pop-ups. Everyone can give a demonstration of how theirs works, then we will have a Pop-Up Party, with popcorn, poptarts, popsicles…you get it.

• Video the student’s hands working their pop-ups to put in the online gallery of student artwork. Could also have a video feed of the students working their pop-ups, playing at school.

Unit Exemplar- This will be a 12” x 12” pop-up book communicating my personal idea of home, with visual examples of memories of my favorite things about my home.

Evidence of Prior Knowledge- Over the years, my mother has given my children amazing pop-up books as presents. The best ones were made by Candlewick press and made a deep impression on me. I have always wanted to do a lesson on Pop-ups, so here I’m happy to have had the chance.

http://www.popupbooks.com/

for dies to print and cut out pop ups from Elements of Pop-Up book.

http://www.classicsusedbooks.com/?tag=richard-sabuda

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/04/books/children-s-books-906840.html

http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/008200.shtml

Vimeo about Bowdoin College’s fabulous pop up collection, with a bit of historical info too.