The past two weeks, I have been talking to the third graders about murals. After learning a brief history about the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, the students observed and discussed some local murals on the Smart board. I asked them to guess the meaning behind the artworks based on symbols and the design. Students recognized that the larger images in the mural were being emphasized, and they made very clever inferences. The students learned that they will be working in 3 separate groups to create a triptych mural with a message. (These murals will be small and portable and in one of my favorite creative mediums- collage).
So, what is the message? Since the third graders have been learning about immigration and migration, (in two classes) and women in science with their student teachers, these three collages will answer three essential questions related to their social studies topic. Last week, they met in small groups to brainstorm, and this week, they worked to translate their ideas into drawings and symbols using class texts as references. They ended class by sketching a layout for their groups' design based on their individual sketches.
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