Using Your Imagination-lesson #2

For Tristen and Lauren’s lesson, it was for 4^th graders and it was called Using Your Imagination. We partnered up and both partners drew a line on our paper then traced that line in permanent marker. We switched papers then decided what we could create that line into. After we made that main object, we had to sketch a background using shapes, a landscape, or a scene. We did this twice with our partner and had to decide which sketch we liked the best to use as our final project. We finished coloring the one that we liked best and we had to use three types of medium to finish our final project. Finally, we created a background and put our name on the front.

I used my line to create a volcanic eruption and thought of it as being one that took place in Hawaii with all of the melting rock and lava. An extension activity would be that you could be in a social studies or science class and have the students do the same thing with drawing the line and trying to figure out a picture to go with it. For this one though, you could give them a specific theme: for example in science, maybe they have to create a piece of lab equipment or an insect with their line and add a background/scene.