Project Description/Expedition:
20 years into the future, you are one of the top builders in the world! You have just completed your transportation project. It was very popular and now you have just enough money to build your dream house! Your builders need an example from you before they can start construction, so using found objects you build a three-dimensional model show exactly what you want your house to look like when it is finished!
Essential Understanding:
Understanding of features of houses will ignite creative thinking and story telling.
Inquiry/Learning target:
I can name the features of a house.
I can create a house out of found objects.
Key Concept(s):
Form
Space
Color
Shape
Skill(s):
Students will learn how to assemble found-object materials.
Students will understand features of houses.
Art Focus:
Students will be exploring how to create a found-object sculptures.
Literacy Focus:
Vocabulary: three-dimensional, found-objects,features.
Literacy Integration: Verbalization of process.
Examples of student work are below.
20 years into the future, you are one of the top builders in the world! You have just completed your transportation project. It was very popular and now you have just enough money to build your dream house! Your builders need an example from you before they can start construction, so using found objects you build a three-dimensional model show exactly what you want your house to look like when it is finished!
Essential Understanding:
Understanding of features of houses will ignite creative thinking and story telling.
Inquiry/Learning target:
I can name the features of a house.
I can create a house out of found objects.
Key Concept(s):
Form
Space
Color
Shape
Skill(s):
Students will learn how to assemble found-object materials.
Students will understand features of houses.
Art Focus:
Students will be exploring how to create a found-object sculptures.
Literacy Focus:
Vocabulary: three-dimensional, found-objects,features.
Literacy Integration: Verbalization of process.
Examples of student work are below.
This student plans what her home will look like in her sketchbook before she starts building. While she sketches, she thinks about shapes and colors that might be somewhat unique on a house. She referenced some of the images on the slideshow presented at the beginning of class and really explored her ideas.
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A student describes what kind of features he included on his camper. He explains that his camper has both a front door and a back door. He discusses how his camper can also float or hover.
Another student explains that he is also making a camper. He describes how his camper is able to connect to other campers to steal the power from them if his camper runs out of power. He also talks about how his camper has a radio so he is able to communicate with other campers. |
A student decorates the surface of her sculpture by using prior knowledge from painting class to make pink.
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These students collaborate together by both making campers. Though they both made campers, they had many different objects and ideas on each of theirs.
The first student explains that he is including a cannon on his camper. The other student explains how his camper has an escape plane. He shows that there is a hatch on the top of his camper where the escape plane is at. |