

What do you want to Illuminate?
“We focused on the concept of Illumination by exploring it from a literal sense of how things light up but also the idea of highlighting or illuminating aspects of our personalities. We wanted the students to use the collaboration as an opportunity to learn the basics of how artificial light as well as bioluminescent light is created, and then use that research to draw self-portraits that illuminate aspects of themselves.”
—Durkin Park, 3rd–5th grade Teacher, Gina Adamik, and Teaching Artist, Niema Qureshi.
We built a creative practice vocabulary list to think like artists.
Fireflies and Circuits
The students created fireflies out of Play-Doh and learned how to illuminate them using microelectronics (test leads, LEDs, low voltage AA battery packs, etc.).Through discussion about conductive materials and insulators and experimentation with the created objects, students learned how basic circuits work.