Week 2 of Peer Teaching

Week 2 of Peer Teaching.

This was the Faberge egg project that we did in class.  In this project we essentially made a stamp on a piece of foam like card stock sketched in our design with a wooden dowel and then we painted the foam.  Basically it was like a giant egg stamp and we stamped them onto the paper.  This was an interesting process because while it seem very complicated at first after starting i saw that it was rather simple.
             I would use this project in class in a middle school when covering the history of a country like Russia.  You could do this project in a middle school social studies class.  First I would have the class go over and cover the history of Faberge eggs, next i would show pictures of real Faberge eggs.  Then like we did in class i would have the students design and make their own Faberge eggs.  I would use the same exact process that we used in class.  This was a very interesting lesson, if i ever do teach a middle school social studies class, i would most definitely do a lesson with this kind of art work in it.

In this project we made a art collage of pictures from magazines that described ourselfs.  At the beginning of the lesson we traced the profile of our head with a partner.  Then we went through multiple magazines, and found pictures described ourselfs or things that we liked.  After cutting them out we than glued the pictures inside the profile of our head.  After doing that we had to write 4 words that described ourselfs.  This project was one of the more crafty ones that we did in class this semester.
          I would use this my classroom in like a 5th grade class.  I think this project would work best at 5th grade because kids are starting to come into there own at this age and it would and could give students that dont have a lot of confidence more of it.  Also it allows for the teacher to truly get a feel of what your students are into.  In my classroom i think i would do one at the beginning of the year and than another at the end just to show my students how much or how little things change from the start to the end.  When i get my own classroom i will most certainly use this to show my students how much things change.