Math Integration with Pi

This was our final peer taught lesson on math integration. For this lesson we talked about the number Pi and it's history. We were given a small piece of paper with the number Pi on it, 3.1459... Then we got a piece of graph paper and for each number of Pi, that was the number of boxes we colored in for each column. After we had a Pi skyline we used watercolor paints and crayons to paint our background.

As an extension activity students create a bar graph for the frequency of the numbers in Pi. They could have the numbers on a sheet of paper, like we did for our skyline, and create a bar graph that showed the number of times each number appeared in Pi. As a class we could then talk about which number is more common and less common in Pi.

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Noun and Adjective Drawing

This was a peer taught lesson on drawing. We each had to grab two adjectives and a noun and then draw the noun and adjectives. My adjectives that I drew were hot and tired and the noun was boy. I then drew a boy who was just finishing football practice and made him seem tired and hot. We used colored pencils to draw our picture and then framed it on construction paper. I thought this was a great lesson to help teach students adjectives and nouns, I can definitely see myself using this in my future classroom. An extension activity would be to have the students take one of their peer's drawings and write a short story about the picture. The students will be able to do some creative writing as well as see if their drawing correctly conveys the adjectives and noun.

Hidden Safari

In this project we drew a animal from a safari in cool colors and then used warm colors to draw various designs over the animal. We used repetition of the patterns to "hide" our safari animal. Then we used a red material to make film glasses that "blocked" out the warm colors and allowed the safari animal to be seen. As an extension activity the students could write vocabulary words in a cool color and then "hide" the word with the warm colors. Each word could be hung around the room with the definition printed beside the word and the students would need to identify the word and then use their glasses to see if they were correct.

Starry Night Landscape Collage

This was a project designed around the artist Vincent Van Gogh. We began by covering a black piece of construction paper with tissue paper. We had many different shapes and colors to cover the construction paper. We then used oil pastels to draw different types of lines and shapes over our tissue paper. After our background was done we designed a landscape to place at the bottom of our paper. An extension activity could be to have the students research their landscape they designed. They could look for various facts and then share them with the class and discuss similarities and differences between the landscapes.

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