Shape Monsters
Students will create a piece of artwork using explorative thought and the shapes provided to create a monster.
Resources
- Shape Copy Page (page 4 of PDF)
- 8 1/2 x 11 Card Stock
- Coloring Supplies
- Scissors
- Glue
- Visual of 2D Shapes and 3D Shapes (2D ideas: pieces of paper/cardboard cut into shapes both organic and geometric;
- Visual of 3D ideas: cans of soup/ boxes; fruit; pieces of clay in weird shapes, items found in nature, etc.)
Fine Art Standards
- VISUAL ART STANDARD 1: The student will explore and refine skills with art materials, techniques, and processes.
- VISUAL ART STANDARD 2: The student will analyze, reflect on, and apply the structures of art.
Integrated Standards
- MATHEMATICS STANDARD (4): Students describe and analyze shapes by examining their sides and angles. Students investigate, describe, and reason about decomposing and combining shapes to make other shapes.
- Through building, drawing, and analyzing two and three dimensional shapes, students develop a foundation for understanding area, volume, congruence, similarity, and symmetry in later grades.
Objectives
Second grade students will understand the difference between geometric and organic shapes.