I am a volunteer art teacher in 2nd grade. I am looking for a good art
project that has to do with camouflaging animals. My instinct is that one of
you
have done something remarkable with this at some point...I want to have the
kids draw an animal then have it disappear into the background but don't
know how to go about this project...
Please give any advice or examples you may have.
Thanks!
Lisa robins
lisa@lisarobins.com
On 1/14/09 12:01 AM, "TeacherArtExchange Discussion Group digest"
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> TEACHERARTEXCHANGE Digest for Tuesday, January 13, 2009.
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> 1. Yaaaay!!!
> 2. Re: Science and Art Lesson idea
> 3. Re: Science and art - need an easy lesson plan
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> Subject: Yaaaay!!!
> From: "Rebecca Burch" <mamallama@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:05:25 -0500
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> I finally got that shelf that I've been asking for for two years!!!
>
> This sounds like a small thing, but the shelf is going to give me a
> place to put the rubbermaid bins that are the "stations" in my middle
> school classes... so I can finally have the Choice classroom that I've
> always wanted. I've been doing a sort of modified choice thing but
> have been wanting to go full-on Choice... and didn't know how to pull
> it off since all my middle school supplies basically had to go in a
> closet during high school classes. I gave my middle school groups
> "choice projects" where they could choose from a limited number of
> options for a specific project, but there was no way to set up actual
> workstations for different media.
>
> Since 6th grade art is world art, each station will represent a
> different country, and kids will travel from station to station
> learning tin-punching, weaving, puppetry, and more... getting their
> passports stamped at the completion of each successful project.
>
> This will also allow me to introduce more stations and rotate them
> during the term to encourage kids to try more things.
>
> I am really excited about this. I'm going to introduce the
> full-choice class with my next group of 6th graders. This is going to
> be awesome!!! :D And it's great that this change is happening now,
> in January. I always get so uninspired during the winter blah months.
>
> Becky
> Charleston WV
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