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Class 7 

November 15, 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. 

This student expressed himself through creating a creature, and using colors that were important to him. 

This student expressed herself by expanding on an animals that she likes, and combining those. 

This student expressed themselves through thinking about ways they could expand upon reindeer, and new things that reindeer might be able to do. 

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 collaborated in a different way, they each focused on individual aspects and then engaged and persisted to bring all those aspects together. 

This group engaged and persisted by making sure they included aspects of everyone's sketchbook ideas. 

This group engaged and persisted by thinking through aspects that are interesting in each of the drawings. 

This group engaged and persisted by starting with a carrot as their main idea, and then expanding upon that. 

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 reflected through developing a story about a spaceship that landed on Earth with their creature in it. 

This group reflected by again starting with the carrot and how that may have been found and hired for the circus. 

This group reflected through creating a story around this creature when it got to the circus. 

This group reflected through creating a story talking about their creature from the perspective of the creature itself. 

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