Visual Arts, Clicker 5, and Clicker Paint

Clicker and Clicker Paint provide numerous opportunities to address specific Visual Arts standards, as well as to integrate art and creativity across the curriculum. Click on a screenshot to download the Grid Set free from our LearningGrids website for use in Clicker or Clicker with Clicker Paint.

Developing specific art skills

In this example Clicker enables students to explore the relationship between size and distance of objects in order to have a better understanding of perspective in paintings. They first explore a painting that highlights the use of relative size to achieve perspective and then they use Clicker Paint to place objects on a background scene, considering the size and placement of the objects.

Using artists as a stimulus for student creativity

Using other artwork as a stimulus for students’ paintings allows students to explore the themes or styles that artists employ. In the Vincent van Gogh example, students use his artwork as inspiration for their own paintings, focusing on his subject matter and use of color.  

They can read about the artist, finding out about why and how he painted the stimulus picture. They can then give information about their own pictures.

Responding to a work of art

Clicker is an ideal tool to use to support students in writing a response to a work of art. The first two examples, Reflecting on my Painting and Responding to a Painting, offer students a basic writing framework for evaluating their own paintings or the artwork of others.

Children can also talk about the paintings and record their observations. A group can create a presentation.

Providing word banks, such as the Visual Arts A-Z, can also support students in using appropriate vocabulary when analyzing works of art.

Communicating through art across the curriculum

From illustrating poetry to exploring the cultural dimensions of a piece of art, Clicker 5 and Clicker Paint are powerful tools for integrating art across the curriculum. Learning from the Past is an example of how students can use art to gain an understanding of past cultures. Students examine the artwork on Greek pottery and use Clicker Paint to create a pottery design that reflects their own culture. They then use a Clicker word bank to support writing about their painting.

In the second example, Geometric Shape Paintings, students use the geometric shapes in Clicker Paint to create a variety of named objects and to explore their own ideas.