- CRAZY CREATURES 3D -
Lesson Description
Today students worked with found objects and 3D sculptural materials to create a 3D creature. Class began with a recap from last time's highlights on the Discovery Board. Students then sketched in their sketchbooks under the prompt, "Draw something that makes you happy." Then students viewed a gallery of their 2D animals around the classroom, followed by a visit from the Combobulator where Kelly and Jennie demonstrated their creatures' transformations from 2D to 3D. The teachers then displayed available materials for assemblage and demonstrated how to use hot glue safely. Students had the rest of the class to explore the materials and assemblage techniques to construct their 3D Crazy Creature. Many students began to envision how their creatures would walk/fly/swim if they were alive and able to move. Again, students created elaborate stories about their creatures. One student started to build his creature a habitat, which will be the next phase of the lesson.
Enduring Understandings
Learning Target
Students will be able to create a 3D creature from animals, people, plants, and machines using found objects and assemblage techniques
Key Concepts
Ideation, texture, living things, pattern, animals, function, parts to whole, assemblage
Skills
Cut, build, use hot glue safely, imagine, observe, combine
Art Focus
Exploring 3D textures
Literacy Focus
In-process critiques (talking about art as it is being made), telling stories about our creatures
Today students worked with found objects and 3D sculptural materials to create a 3D creature. Class began with a recap from last time's highlights on the Discovery Board. Students then sketched in their sketchbooks under the prompt, "Draw something that makes you happy." Then students viewed a gallery of their 2D animals around the classroom, followed by a visit from the Combobulator where Kelly and Jennie demonstrated their creatures' transformations from 2D to 3D. The teachers then displayed available materials for assemblage and demonstrated how to use hot glue safely. Students had the rest of the class to explore the materials and assemblage techniques to construct their 3D Crazy Creature. Many students began to envision how their creatures would walk/fly/swim if they were alive and able to move. Again, students created elaborate stories about their creatures. One student started to build his creature a habitat, which will be the next phase of the lesson.
Enduring Understandings
- People investigate new ideas by synthesizing pieces of reality
- Environments fit the needs of living things
- The characteristics of living things are designed for function
Learning Target
Students will be able to create a 3D creature from animals, people, plants, and machines using found objects and assemblage techniques
Key Concepts
Ideation, texture, living things, pattern, animals, function, parts to whole, assemblage
Skills
Cut, build, use hot glue safely, imagine, observe, combine
Art Focus
Exploring 3D textures
Literacy Focus
In-process critiques (talking about art as it is being made), telling stories about our creatures
- THE ART MAKING -
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During sketchbook time, students combined their interests and experiences outside school with their art making in the classroom. They worked on individual sketches but collaborated through generating ideas and telling stories together.
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This student's creature had specific features that inspired her to imagine and enact how it would soar through the air. She explains the process of how the jet propels it into the air and the feathers help it fly. |
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This student combined found objects from machines and tools to create a creature capable of shooting lasers at the "whole city." He used a recycled computer key that functions as a button to activate the orange pom pom "laser." |
This student begins to explain his creature using textural vocabulary like soft and bumpy when referring to the wings. He then continues to describe the function of the creature's mouth, which has the ability to poison anything it touches. |
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While experimenting with the different materials, this student discovered that the elasticity of pantyhose is strong enough to hold popsicle sticks in place without the use of glue. |