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Day 6: 2nd Animal Soap Carving
Day 6: 2nd Animal Soap Carving
Objective: Carve 2nd animal for diorama from soap
Objective: Carve 2nd animal for diorama from soap
Students can choose to do another of the same animal they did before or a different one.
Day 7: Peer Critique/Feedback, 3rd Animal Soap Carving
Day 7: Peer Critique/Feedback, 3rd Animal Soap Carving
Objective: Students will be able to give kind, specific and helpful feedback to peers about their carvings using a rubric. Students will be able to incorporate feedback into their carvings as if needed.
If appropriate, share Austin's Butterfly and the process of creating high quality work--that it takes "multiple drafts" and feedback to get better at your work.
Tell them today they will be able to give each other feedback on their first two carvings (when they are ready). Perhaps share video showing a critique/feedback lesson if helpful.
Stress that the three rules are to be kind, specific and helpful.
Materials
Materials
Carving Rubric for students to use for peer feedback (see below)
Resources
Resources
Critique Protocol: Helping Students Produce High-Quality Work (video)
Descriptive Feedback Helps All Students Reach Proficiency (video)
Austin's Butterfly video
Day 8: Collect natural objects outside
Day 8: Collect natural objects outside
Objective: Go outside to collect natural objects to show animal habitat in diorama.
Objective: Go outside to collect natural objects to show animal habitat in diorama.
Refer back to the chart made on day 1 and review what the elements are of animal habitats.
Talk about the kinds of things they could gather outside to use in their dioramas to represent their animals' habitat.
Look at some examples of how regional artists have used natural objects to create a "platform" for their carvings. Students could use pieces of driftwood, (or cardboard boxes) as a setting for their dioramas.
Materials
Bag for each student for their natural objects
Day 9: Assemble Dioramas
Day 9: Assemble Dioramas
Objective: Assemble dioramas by combining soap carvings and natural objects to create a habitat, resulting in a "mixed media" sculpture.
Objective: Assemble dioramas by combining soap carvings and natural objects to create a habitat, resulting in a "mixed media" sculpture.
Students assemble their dioramas. They may want to incorporate their scrimshaw as a background, or keep it as a separate piece of artwork.
Materials
glue
natural objects collected outside, including a larger object such as driftwood, as a base (or cardboard box)
students' animal carvings
paint, if needed for background.
Day 10-11: Art Exhibit/Celebration of Scrimshaw and Dioramas
Day 10-11: Art Exhibit/Celebration of Scrimshaw and Dioramas
Objective: Students title their artwork and write a short description about how they made it, along with the natural objects they incorporated.
Objective: Students title their artwork and write a short description about how they made it, along with the natural objects they incorporated.
Students create an art label with the title of their artwork, a list of the materials used.
Students write a paragraph describing how their artwork shows interdependence and respect for nature.
Students arrange work into an art show for the school. They give each other peer feedback using the diorama rubric.
Students are given time to make improvements on their work if needed.
If appropriate, students can invite the community to an art opening in which they talk about how their artwork was made and how it shows a respect for nature.
Materials
Diorama rubric (below)
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