October 22,2019
Class two
Project Description
For our second lesson, students created their own animals out of recycled materials. They created this animal by combining 2 to 3 different animal parts together to make one. This is relevant because we will be scaffolding on building skills we learned in the lesson while making our 3D favorite foods such as sketching possible ideas for the project as well as form building through different materials such as cardboard, yogurt containers, foam, pipe cleaners, pom poms, yarn, fabric, etc. This will allow for practice and repetition with skills and materials used and taught within our lessons.
Essential Understanding
The essential understanding for this project is for the students to form and shape 3D materials into morphed animal objects. Problem solving from the ideation to creation of their hybrid animals was an important part of understanding this projects. Skills learned during the first class served as a base for this project.
Intended Outcomes
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Students will continue to sketch their ideas for their projects and explain them
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Students will freely chose their materials that they feel best fit their ideas
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Students will make a hybrid animal which stems from their favorite animals, most interesting animals to them, or their imagination of a unique animal
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The students will be able to tell how they combined multiple animals and why they chose these animals
Skills
The skills the students are working towards are:
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Planning out project through sketching ideas and looking at possible materials
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Problem solving from ideation to creation
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Forming and shaping materials to create their animal
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Engage in discussion of ideas and of final project
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Expression of self through creation of 3 Dimensional animal
Demonstrations
This student was committed to making a ladybug with a cat head and a horse tail. She problem solved and experimented with different ways of making a tail that held the shape she designed and sketched. "I have made the executive decision to change the fabric I wanted to use to a pipe-cleaner that will hold the shape better." In the end she figured out she could wrap the pipe-cleaner in the fabric she chose to keep texture and color while maintaining the shape she sketched.
"I like wolves, and alligators and fish, but how can I combine them?" This student sketched and exercised his creativity to figure out which animal body parts to combine. Drawing the shape of scales helped him problem solve and figure out how to cut scale "strips" out of foam sheets to wrap around a bottle.
This student combined a bunny rabbit with a peacock tail and tentacles to create her animal. "I want to use the felt for its body so that it will be fuzzy." She was deciding between using felt or paint for the body and ultimately decided that she wanted to include some texture into her piece. She also had to problem solve to figure out how to attach the feathers to its body to look like a peacock tail. She figured out to attach them all to a piece of paper that she could shape how she pleased.
This student decided to make a tiger. He sketched out his idea and then picked out a bunch of toilet paper rolls and a paper towel row along with some extra cardboard to make his animal. He decided on black fabric for its body and problem solved by using strings as the stripes. "I want to use string for the stripes."
After sketching, and coming up with many different ideas. This particular student wanted to create an animal that was a swan that was also part peacock and butterfly. She loved using feathers for the tail and used the pipe clears to create beautiful texture for the butterfly wings.
The student really loved bunnies and pigs. So she created a bunny that was also part pig. She used pink felt to cover the head of the pig, and then used cardboard for the ears. The student then panted the ears navy blue, and gave it some fun eyes.