Microscope Art
For the art show I had my students work on art that integrated with their science microscope unit. The first step was for them to draw what they saw when looking through the scopes. At this point I had students generate the criteria (though of course I had what I wanted in mind and led them to generate all the criteria I wanted them to have). After students had drawn their specimen in pencil we talked about point of view and I asked students to brainstorm what they would see if they were tiny, the size of their specimen. They then had to draw what they think they would see from their specimen's point of view around their specimen. The results were supposed to be similar to the edited photo below.
The art show itself was quite fun. It is not often that our class gets to hang out and work on projects like that, so set up was fun. Of course it was also great to see all the art that others had made and to have students visit the university to see their artwork.
Such a neat project that you did, Michael! Way to work science into the art :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing - be careful about manipulating criteria - if it isn't actually going to come from the students, it may be better just to set the criteria yourself - or to set 2 and invite them to add one. You want students to trust that their voices actually count. But if students really believe the suggestions have come from them, they will likely be more committed to achieving them...so of course, your judgment of their responses will be needed.
ReplyDeleteYou should remember this when you're trying to teach point of view in Language Arts. For some reason, that's one of the hardest things for them to get, ever. I wonder if I could collaborate with the science teacher to do this with my grade 8/9s next year.
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