Project ExplanationFor this lesson, students will consider how a background, habitat, or environment help emphasize the characteristics of an object in a piece of work. While considering the anthropomorphic objects they created in the last lesson, students will create a personalized environment that will enhance the characteristics of their creature. This will help students demonstrate how added details and an environment can completely change our understanding of something. We will show a powerpoint that emphasizes the idea of changing environment as motivation. Students will then construct (either individually or collaboratively) a 3D environment to place their creature in. They will do this using gessoed cardboard constructed to be walls and a floor, and paint and mixed media to create the environment.
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See Some Examples
"Because my object is kinda like a frog there will be flies everywhere so it can have plenty to eat. The dots are the flies!"
"Look how we made our trees pop out like they are 3D! We used pipe cleaners and tape to make it like a pop up book."
"Look how we made our trees pop out like they are 3D! We used pipe cleaners and tape to make it like a pop up book."
"The volcano in the middle is for the tropical forest."
"He will be in a nest in the two trees."
"On the walls I'll paint the sky, sun, and trees, On the floor I'll make the volcano and a few trees in 3D."
"He will be in a nest in the two trees."
"On the walls I'll paint the sky, sun, and trees, On the floor I'll make the volcano and a few trees in 3D."
This student explained how his habitat enhanced his objects characteristics by explaining that his object is a soccer ball and a goalie, which means that he needs a gym to work out in and also a field, net, and ball dispenser to practice his goalie skills! After completing what is seen in the first picture he said that he was finished, but when asked to apply the multimedia techniques developed in a previous project he decided to add a 3D soccer goal as well as a 3D weights shelf on the wall.