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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. 

This student was expressing her own ideas, connecting to her favorite animal and her perception of the circus. 

This student expressed herself through thinking about small details including color, pattern, etc that could come together to make a crazy creature. 

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 was engaged through continuing to add textures, as well as develop a narrative around the creature. In the end their creature was covered in texture, which helped them develop their story. 

This group was engaged through finding aspects of each sketchbook that they wanted to include. Their creature visually was a combination of all their sketchbooks. They persisted to make sure that everyone's ideas were included. 

This group engaged and persisted through developing their story for how they found their creature. 

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 creating a story of meeting their "potato gremlin." 

This group reflected through creating a story about how their creature ended up on the moon, where they found and hired thier creature. 

This group reflected through creating a story about their creature that is a "combination of a whole bunch of animals."

This group reflected through their description "a speck that keeps getting bigger and bigger." 

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