3D Pop-Up

 Description: 

There was a quick presentation on 3D artists and some of their artwork to start off class. Then, students were put into partners and had to pick a scene and two characters from the table. The top of the construction paper was decorated to show the scene that was chosen. In this case, my partner and I had an underwater scene. We also had to cut slits in the scene for our characters to sit on. The two characters we got for this project were a watermelon and a lego piece. To finish off this project, the students had to tell a story about their characters and scene.

Extension Activity: 

An extension activity I would do for this project is have my students combine all of their scenes and all of their characters to create one big story. This would challenge the entire class to work together and incorporate everyone.

Clay Tiles

 Description: 

Students were presented with a PowerPoint on mosaic tiles. The students were asked to brainstorm ideas that represented themselves, their family, or their community. Miss Hannah, then demonstrated the techniques we were going to be focusing on (additive, subtractive, wedging, and slip and score). Then, the students used their ideas and the techniques demonstrated to create their own personal tiles, as well as write a little paragraph explaining the symbols they used on their tiles.

Extension Activity: 

To follow up our individual projects, I would have my students brainstorm ideas or symbols that represent our classroom culture. Then, the students would create a tile mosaic similar to the ones we talked about in the PowerPoint. Each student would have a tile to manipulate and then once all the students were done with their tiles, we would put them together to create the idea or symbol that they think represents our classroom culture.