What Do You Get When You Mix - Jungles, Veggies and 3rd Graders?

Today we started out share what we knew about jungles,

then we shared what we wanted to know about jungles

then we viewed and gathered information about jungles 

through a visual tour of the plant and animal life of a jungle.

Students saw species of birds they had never seen before, 

animals doing dances, and frogs flying. 

 We formed groups based on the animal we want to create for our next project.

Then we were given  

THE CHALLENGE:

Create a Jungle Animal Sculpture Using the Following Materials:

Carrot sticks

Carrot rounds

Potatoes

 Grapes

Celery sticks

Toothpicks

Here were a couple of artists we looked at who use 

nontraditional mediums including:

 matches

car parts and tools

pipe cleaners

Here is what we came up with for our sculptures!

Mini Set Designs Final Presentation

Finally students got to show the class their hard work and creative set design.

Classmates

shared their favorite part of each project.

(mini critique)

Texture Investigation Journals

Today we got to create our own Investigation Journals. We discovered different ways to create real and implied texture.

We split into two groups 

1st group experimented with the crayon rubbings

2nd group scrutinized what cool textures watercolor, straws and salt created.

Then we rotated so everyone got to try both stations. 

Here are some students' findings:

Then we chose which textures to combine to create a new character.