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🌳 Week 4 Mind Map — Three-Dimensional Visual Arts - Coggle Diagram
🌳 Week 4 Mind Map — Three-Dimensional Visual Arts
🎨 Meaning of 3D Art
3D art has height, width and depth and occupies physical space.
Children can touch, move and explore artworks from different perspectives.
📸 Documentation
Photos, observations and conversations make children’s thinking and learning visible.
🧠 Children’s Learning
3D art develops creativity, problem-solving, spatial awareness and motor skills.
Children communicate ideas and develop independence through exploration (Dinham & Chalk, 2022).
🪵 Materials & Mediums
Natural, recycled and traditional materials encourage sensory exploration and creativity.
Clay, cardboard, loose parts and textiles provide different learning possibilities.
✋ Techniques
Children explore modelling, joining, constructing, carving, weaving and assembling.
Balancing and stacking develop understanding of stability and spatial relationships.
🌱 Pedagogical Approach
Open-ended, child-led experiences encourage inquiry, imagination and creative risk-taking.
Educators should value the creative process rather than identical products (Dinham & Chalk, 2022).
🔄 Creative Process
Children observe, explore, experiment, create, reflect and communicate their ideas.
The creative process is flexible and children can revisit and improve their work.
👩🏫 Educator’s Role
Educators provide inviting materials and scaffold learning through open-ended questions.
Children’s own ideas should remain central to the creative experience (McArdle, 2012).