ARTISTIC
skills
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. Click on the video to the left to hear more about the program!
Curricular Areas
Each Culver City elementary school build skills in each of the following areas.
Grade Level Key Projects
Art and Innovation's Key Projects are those that help students practice and build skills connecting concepts and modalities, like engineering design and sculpture or coding and drawing. Students at each CCUSD elementary school can expect to complete the following Key Projects.
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.