Hidden Safari

 

Description:

In class, we had to draw an upside-down animal that we could find on the safari. We drew it with a blue pencil. We used warm colors like red, yellow, and orange to cover it so we couldn't see it. We also created glasses with red lenses so we could only see the animal when we looked at the picture because the red lenses would cancel out the warm colors. The animal I chose was a rhino; when you put the red glasses on, you can tell it's a rhino.

Extension Activity:

I could relate this back to science for the extension activity.  We can discuss how sometimes we can't see things with the naked eye and need something else to see things like bacteria or small organisms.  

Van Gogh Project

 

Description: In this project, we learned about the life of the famous painter Vincent Van Gogh. We also studied one of his paintings, "The Starry Night." We did our version of Starry Night with the tissue paper background and had a landscape silhouette. For my project, I decided to have my background dark but with complementary colors of greens and purples. I decided to use a hill and a tree for my silhouette because I thought it would look cool and be better for my background.

Extension Activity: I can incorporate this idea back into social studies. When we are teaching about the 1800s, we can talk about famous people from that time and look into them. With that, we can add this artwork project to it and then have the students present their project and explain what they learned and why they chose their idea for their project.