Geometrics
Project Description
In pairs, students draw pictures of Geometoids (creatures composed
of geometric shapes), and then write descriptive paragraphs. The descriptions
are posted on class websites. The receiving students draw from the descriptive
paragraphs, and those drawings are scanned and posted on class websites. Students
then compare original drawings with “second generation” drawings
from the other class to assess their own skill at descriptive writing.
Student Outcomes
- Writing
- Write a well-planned and interesting paragraph with sufficient detail
- Present information clearly
- Present a picture or express a feeling with vivid sensory detail
- Edit own and others’ work for quality and mechanics
- Use the computer as a writing tool
- Persevere through the writing process
- Evaluate own writing and personal progress
- Reading
- Extract the main idea or theme from a text
- Use prior knowledge/experience and context to make predictions and
draw conclusions and inferences
- Math
- Identify and describe polygon figures
- Recognize polygons from written descriptions
- Art
- Identify and describe visual qualities that exist in works of art
- Show refined skill and knowledge when solving artistic problems
and expressing ideas and views in original works of art
- Technology
- Keyboarding
- Word processing
- Graphics manipulation (scanning, editing)