Art in 3-d for elementary classes

I am setting up a Wiki for my sixth grade classes to document their work building model arcologies. We look at the work of visionary architect Paolo Soleri, the inventor of the arcology, and talk about how we might structure a community so that cars are unnecessary. Students self-select groups of two, three or four [...]

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I come from a long line of lifelong learners. I don’t believe there is any other way to be. Reading widely, studying the world around, discussing issues and non-issues with friends and family are all part of my life. Taking a course is the easiest way to learn something like technical innovations, and I have [...]

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I read a variety of the suggested posts and found them all interesting. It isn’t the kind of reading I would choose to do every day, but it was fun to see what the third graders wrote about the lost duck , and to know that we are all as good as on CNN every [...]

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Last week we made our Fourth Grade Red Clay Maps of Georgia! We have done this project for many years, and it is big but it runs pretty smoothly. Students work with thier Social Studies teacher to label and cut out a paper pattern of the state of Georgia. Then they come to my art [...]

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Web 2.0 encourages cooperative learning, it seems to me, and collaboration. This is how the real world operates, rather than the competitive model of learning that bogs us down and teaches us that we are not as good or not as smart (or smarter and better) over and over again. Our ability to offer and [...]

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