PIECE OF ART PROJECT
Throughout history and still today, people have tried to make difference in the world around them through the use violence and nonviolence. In this project, our students what the outcomes, both positive and negative, of the use of violence versus nonviolence have been. Ultimately, nonviolence is much more effective in accomplishing a long-term positive change within our world. Our third graders will also explore how different shapes come together to make art; and how through that art and geometry you are able to convey social messages, beliefs, and values. As a class, we all worked together to create a lessons to showcase what we learned and to teach elementary school students about nonviolence and geometry. In addition, we created a collaborative mural on nonviolence using geometry and helped our elementary students do the same. The content about nonviolence that will be learned through this project will guide the rest of our years as we learn about global issues and how people are trying to make a change. It will also be relevant as we learn about major wars throughout history and those that go on today, and how peace can be fostered in our world. Likewise, the geometry skills students learn in this project will form the foundation for the rest of the math topics that will be explored in this class.
In the slideshow above, you can see pictures of when we took the third graders on a field trip to Chicano Park to teach them about nonviolence and the nonviolent history that it represents. You can see them in front of the murals all around the park and taking notes on what they see.
Above, you see pictures of the lantern that my group and I created using tissue paper and cardboard. Sadly, our lantern was crushed underneath all of the other lanterns, so it got ruined a bit. Our initial idea was for each member of the group to draw out one design that would go in their frame of the lantern, then, all together, we would decide what the last frame would consist of because there were five frames and only four group members. In my frame, I drew a pentagon with several triangles and squares cut out inside of it. Then, in the very center of my pentagon, was a peace sign that was incredibly hard to cut out from the tissue paper.