ENTRY B

Tissue paper collage

This was a very fun way to begin the course. It allowed us the opportunity to jump right in and give the room a very elementary art feel for the next couple weeks. It also served as a nice ice breaker for those of us who didn't know each other yet.

• First we were assigned a window in the classroom and partnered with a classmate.
• We were then charged with developing an idea of what to cover our window with. The instructions were very loosely defined. The only stipulation was that it needed to be something condusive to an elementary classroom environment.
• My partner and I decided to recreate the scene that was visable just outside of the window we were assigned. We stood at a specific place and traced the prominant features outside on the window with a dry erase marker.
• We then gathered tissue paper in the appropriate colors and tore it into pieces.
• We prepared a watered down glue solution and spread it on the window using a paintbrush.
• Then we placed the tissue paper in the appropriate areas on the glue to most accurately depict the scene jsut outside.

Integration

• This project could be integrated into a history lesson by instructing the students to show what the scene out the window would look like at some point in history.
• It could be used as well in writing by having the students label the objects in the scene.
• In a science lesson the students may have been asked to depict the plant and animal life outside.
• In mathematics the students could have compared the scale of objects outside and related those to multiplication.
• In a social studies lesson the students may have been asked to show a scene that could be observed out the window in another culture.