Polygonoids & Pixies
Project Description
Phase 1: In pairs, students draw pictures of Polygonoids (creatures composed
of polygons), 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.
Phase 2: Through the same process, students describe a Pixie (imaginary
creature). Written descriptions are posted on class websites, and receiving
students attempt to duplicate the Pixie from the descriptions. Second generation
paintings
are compared to the original drawings for detail and accuracy.
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)
