DAY 4
PROJECT/UNIT DESCRIPTION/EXPEDITION:
The students will be working collaboratively to create a community/city for their environments from the previous week.
The students will be working collaboratively to create a community/city for their environments from the previous week.
ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING:
Decisions about art - making can be developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments. |
INQUIRY/LEARNING TARGET:
Students will work collaboratively to design and create a 2D city for their constructed 3D environments. |
KEY CONCEPTS:
Community Cities Collaboration Space Scale Connections |
SKILLS:
Making relationships between previous art project and new art project Listening critically Thinking independently Working in groups |
ART FOCUS:
Create a communal city for students' 3D environments. |
LITERACY FOCUS:
Students will be talking and working together to determine the layout of their city. At the end students will discuss their artistic decisions. |
DOCUMENTATION:
REFLECTION & FINDINGS:
Overall, students learned how to work collaboratively with each other to build a city. Through the construction of a community, students make connections between their own created environments and real life situations, like a city. The students incorporated important aspects of cities, communities, and private residences.