Renata Kern, OŠ Šmartno pod Šmarno Goro

Teaching is a challenge and a challenge is great motivation for changes and diversity. Teaching fine arts is a pleasure to me as we always test theoretical contents, we explore through creating, designing different materials. Information and statements are often not enough for a student to understand the art theory, so it was a challenge to me to invite pupils to explain the given theoretical novelty through experience. In the 4th grade I found a way in the sculptural content for students to research and find differences between two types of sculpture by using tablets. I upgraded the task and told the pupils to research in pairs. They could decide by themselves which role to take or even to change the roles. One of them took over the role of the cameraman, the other one prepared the sculpture for recording on a rotating surface. The task requested mutual cooperation, making agreements, discovering the facts, validating and proving the claim. Through this experience they understood the differences between a relief and a rounded plastic as they came across a minor obstacle during the recording. They could record a small statue of a human being from all sides, but they were not able to record a relief in the same way. In just a few minutes students became acquainted with the theoretical claim, they were able to understand and prove it by using the tablet recorder.