Unit Overview: Students will design a quilt square using Maryland iconography in order to create a fabric square for Project Linus. Students will understand the elements of balance, rhythm, unity, and contour line in their design.
This is a fourth grade lesson I taught about using contour line in design. Students looked at all of the Maryland State symbols and were allowed to create a design based on those symbols. Students used balance, rhythm, and unity in their design to create a meaningful quilt square. Our project was used to support Project Linus. Project Linus is an organization seeks to "Provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gifts of new, handmade blankets and afghans, lovingly created by volunteer “blanketeers.” http://www.projectlinus.org/ The quilt squares made by these students will be sewn together to create multiple blankets that will be given to children at Carroll County Hospital Center.
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Unit Overview: Students will understand positive and negative space by designing paper stencils and applying stencil rubbing technique using chalk pastels. The resulting shapes will reinforce student learning on positive and negative space.
This is a fourth grade lesson I taught on positive and negative space. Students cut their own snowflakes stencils and then used pastels to reveal the negative space. Students were encouraged to come up with a theme for their stencil designs and pair that with a color theme. Students were allowed to glue their snowflake stencil to their final piece to reinforce the concept of positive and negative space. |
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