Sneaker Redesign

Post date: Dec 20, 2013 10:00:34 PM

Students had to create decorative papers using paste paint and watercolors to collage into a newly designed sneaker. This project has been pretty successful as most kids enjoy making the paper and most of them like fashionable shoes. The problems I usually have are with the content of the lesson, there's this color packet with all of the different color schemes I want them to learn about and moat of them just can't handle doing anything to learn about that. I literally describe it in words, have it on posters, and lead them on with easy prompts. Its information they should already know, like what are the three primary colors, but don't actually know when it's framed as a potential color scheme. That's the core of the lesson. I'll have to redesign the packet yet again so that it actually works in conjunction with the posters I've made or so that it works in conjunction with the project. I basically have to tech them how to read, there's no other way around it, and without constant reinforcement, i.e. more reading lessons I have no hope them actually becoming self sufficient when it comes to write instructions or technical texts which is how I'd rather teach anyway.