Project Details
Students draw themselves sleeping and write a story about a dream they had.
Lesson Plan Ideas
Developed by: Kathy Barbro, Visual Arts Professional Expert from Dixie Canyon Community Charter Elementary School in Sherman Oaks, CA
Learning Objective
For Grade: 3
Students learn how to make a tessellation to help them draw a quilt. They write a descriptive story with details.
Applicable Core Standards
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.7c
Use tiling to show in a concrete case that the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths a and b + c is the sum of a × b and a × c. Use area models to represent the distributive property in mathematical reasoning.
Steps
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Making the Tesselation
Cut a 2.5” square from tagboard. Draw two curves from point to point. Add letters, arrows
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Cut curves out with scissors.
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Slide curves up, do not rotate or flop.
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With edges touching, tape in place.
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Drawing a Dreaming Child
Make fold lines on 18” x 12” paper. Trace template on bottom center.
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Slide template up and trace again.
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Slide template up and trace again.
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Slide template to trace the same number of shapes shown below.
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Add head, pillow, bed and headboard. Write “Dreaming” in cursive.
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When the drawing is complete, finish with writing a story about a dream.
