1. Graphic Organizers Use of Graphic organizers in Art Education

2. What is the big deal with Visual Representation? “Currently as the population and needs of students grow more diverse, there is a greater need for visual tools to be used as additional augmentative tools for effective teaching intervention. It is through visualizing important concepts and facts that students build knowledge bases.” (Ben-David 2002) A common visual representation is the graphic organizer.

3. What is a Graphic Organizer? It is a visual and graphic display that depicts the relationship between facts, terms and or ideas within a learning task. (Strangman, Hall and Meyer 2003) Some examples of Graphic organizers include Venn diagrams, concept maps, webs and cycle maps.

4. Why Use Graphic Organizers? Graphic organizers help students to enhance and expand the information and promote higher order thinking skills. Organizers help students to better comprehend and understand complex learning materials and concepts. Organizers help facilitate long term retention. (Gil-Garcia and Villegas 2003)

5. Color Primary Secondary Warm Colors Cool Colors

6. Primary The three basic colors from which it is possible to mix all other colors. The primary colors cannot be mixed. The primary colors are… Red Yellow Blue When all three colors are mixed, the result is a brownish color.

7. Secondary Colors that result from a mixture of two primary colors. Red +Blue = Purple Red + Yellow = Orange Blue + Yellow = Green

8. Warm Colors Those hue in which yellow and red are dominant.

9. Cool Colors Those colors in which Blue is dominant.

10. Pre-Test

11. Modified Venn Diagram Use the watercolors to paint each circle a primary color. Primary colors are red, yellow and blue. Think of Superman’s Costume! ===> Let the paint dry for a minute before painting over a wet area. Paint over the yellow twice.

12. Fill out Graphic Organizer Fill in the answers on the chart as you finish painting.

13. Answers

14. Post Test

15. Refrences Ben-David, R. (2002). Enhancing Comprehension through Graphic Organizers (Report No. CS510775). Kean University. (ERIC Document Reproductions Service No. ED461907) Gil-Garcia, A. & Villegas, J. (2003). Engaging Minds, Enhancing Comprehension and Constructing Knowledge through Visual Representations (Report No TM035207). Bordeaux, France: Conference on Word Association for Case Method research and Application. (ERIC Document Reproductions Service No. ED480131) Kleinr, F.S., Mamiya, C.J. & Tansey, R.G. (2001). Gardner’s Art Through the Ages. Fort Worth, TX. Harcourt Colege Publishers. Strangman, N., Hall, T., & Meyer, A. (2003). Graphic Organizers with UDL. Wakefield, MA: National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum. Retrieved June 20, 2007 from http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac_goudl.html