Week 1 of Peer Teaching

Week 1 of Peer Teaching

  The picture shown here is a flower that we made in class,  the making of this flower occurred using a few different mediums.  The first is crayons they were used in the stem of the flower.  The second were colored pencils, they were used in the center of the flower.  The 3rd and final medium used is chalk.  The chalk was used in the petals of the flowers.  If you look closely you can see the petals of the flower blending together with shades of yellow orange and red.
               I would use this activity in my classroom.  While the art itself is pretty simple it could easily be used, in a flower unit in school.  I also liked the fact that we used 3 different mediums, that could easily be used to show and separate the 3 major different parts of the flower.  I would use this activity in a 2nd or 3rd grade classroom, because at that age they would be old enough to understand the different mediums and the different parts of a flower.


The picture shown here is of the Turtles that we drew in class.  What i liked about this project is the fact that we used a lot of different mediums and it allowed us  the class to basically design our own turtle and use whatever colors I wanted to use.  In this turtle crayons of different kinds were used, for example i remember using oil pastels and regular crayons.  The water around the turtle is water color paint.  Water was placed all over the paper, when placed on certain crayons it blended some together and on other areas it did nothing at all.  This was one of the more entertaining projects of the semester.
                  I would use this project in my classroom, probably if I were teaching a middle school class were we were covering the ocean.  Although this project in class was based for a younger group of kids i would stretch it out into the older ages of kids for the simple fact, that i would want this project to be more of an overview of ocean life.  In my class I would have students draw 5 different kinds of ocean life and then they would have to give a brief biography on each different animal.