Egypt

The Third Graders were learning about ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt in Social Studies. For this project students looked at a wide variety of artifacts from ancient Egypt and then designed their own sculptures inspired by them. There was a really wide variety of styles that students choose and everyone added different details and elements to make their pieces unique. 

Calendars

For a Social Studies integration, students were asked to examine calendars from various cultures. After looking at different ways different people have decided to count their days, weeks and years, student invented their own ways of designing calendars.

Dioramas

I did this project with an after school class. All the student's and I loved loved working on this project. Students used small cardboard boxes to create miniature buildings, forts, castles, burrows, and underwater caves. All the students helped bring in boxes and I was able to supply some miscellaneous mixed media materials. Once the students got going and understood everything that could be done with simple boxes, they wouldn't stop bringing them in and kept salvaging bits from the school recycling bins. So many of them saw infinite possibilities in the everyday materials.

This student added animals to populate her forest/animal village.

I love the onion top dome on this one!

Mythical Creatures