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CCUSD Elementary Schools
Art & Innovation Lab
The Culver City Unified School District’s Art and Innovation Lab (CCAIL) develops the creative and visual skills of students in grades TK-5. The program guides students through hands-on visual art explorations, engineering design challenges, robotics/coding, and design thinking projects. In the process, students develop artistic techniques, a sensitivity to design, a sense of personal agency, and visual communication skills.
Key Projects
Describe Key Peojects
TK:
Marble Maze
Creativity goal: Students will be able to manipulate paper to create tunnels for a marble. In the process they will experiment with how the force of gravity affects gameplay.
Kindergarten:
Paper-Shaping Sculpture
Creativity Goal: Students can manipulate paper and/or cardboard into a 3D shape. Exploring the relationship between shape and strength.
First grade:
Balanced Sculpture Project
Creativity Goal: Students can create a sculpture containing elements of opposing forces that stands on its own.
Second grade:
Ozobot Theater
Creativity Goal: Students can code robots with lines to interact with artwork to tell a story.
Third grade:
Design and Dash
Creativity Goal: Students will be able to combine sculptural skills with coding to create a moving presentation
Fourth grade:
Interactive Art
Creativity Goal: Students can use Makey Makey circuitry to create physical artwork that controls the computer.
Fifth grade:
3D Stop Motion Animation
Creativity Goal: Students can make an original animation using sculptural and/or drawing skills and stop motion software.