Art in 3-d for elementary classes

Yippee! One sixth grade class has begun their pages on our Wiki, documenting the model arcologies they have been building. We have had a hard time scheduling the computer lab, so we have just been building and building and photographing along.  I hope you enjoy it as it grows!

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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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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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