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Class 5 

October 25, 2019

Collaborative Circus in Space 

In this project, students will collaboratively make a creature/alien that they hired for a circus in space. This will help the students discover teamwork and collaboration in the sense that they must incorporate at least one idea from each students sketchbook drawing. This is relevant to this age group because they are at a stage where they are less accepting of others ideas’ therefore they will learn the value in collaborating.

Essential Understanding 

Artists and designers collaborate with others in the creation of their work.

Learning Targets

Using a prompt, students will be able to collaboratively create an alien/creature.

Using their artwork students will be able to tell a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Using art materials, students will be able to create an alien/creature that incorporates color and detail.

Key Concepts:

  1. Students will ideate individually through their sketchbook prompt. 

  2. Students will take their individual ideas and combine them with their classmates ideas, respectfully collaborating with each other. 

  3. Students will create a story as a way of reflecting on their collaborative efforts. 

Skills:

  • Ideation 

  • Collaboration 

  • Imagination 

  • Reflection 

Documentation 

Studio Habit: Express

Students were first given a prompt on the board, that read: You are the new ringmaster to a circus in space. Your mission is to find the wackiest creature in space to be the star of the show. Students were given six minutes to ideate in their sketchbook, individually expressing their ideas for the prompt. 

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"Mine is a frog mixed with a human, it has eye ears. Mine is like a weird monster, and it likes to color."

This student was expressing some of her favorite things, such as her favorite animal and something she likes to do through her creature. 

"Mine has six eyes and lots of feet. I'm going to add wings so it can fly! They are butterfly wings, so they are really delicate. And it's gonna have ten ears so it can hear really goodly"

This student expressed interesting characteristics, such as being able to see really well, hear really well, and be able to fly. 

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Studio Habit: Engage and Persist 

Students were asked to collaborate with their classmates to create their final creature/alien. Students were engaged through thinking about how they could incorporate at least one idea from each person's sketchbook. 

This group engaged and persisted in a different way than other groups, because they wanted to include all the heads and all the legs from their creatures, this is engaging in ways to connect all their different creatures. 

This group engaged and persisted through including aspects of the creatures that each group member wanted. They were all taking leadership in different ways, therefore being engaged in different ways. 

This group started by making their creature microscopic. Through expanding on that and engaging and persisting they drew the creature through the lens of a microscope. 

Studio Habit: Reflect

During and after the creation of their creature, students reflected on their work through creating a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end about how they found and hired their creature. 

This group made a comic strip about how they found their creature. They reflected through the creation of this comic strip. 

This group found their creature on Planet Zork, where there is candy everywhere. This was reflecting on the finding of their creature.  

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