COLLABORATIVE STORY COLLAGES

LESSON PLAN

STUDENT WORK

Collaborative Story Collages

Fiona Black

Unit of Study: Imagination

Subject: Art

Grade: 5th

The Big Idea:

Students will practice working collaboratively, and use their creative imagination to illustrate surreal stories.

Specific Essential Questions addressed in this lesson:

What does it mean to collaborate on an art project? What does it mean to illustrate something? How can we use our imagination when reading something that doesn't quite make sense?

Learning Outcomes/Expectations/Objectives:

As a result of this lesson, students will understand that sometimes working collaboratively means trusting someone else to add to and possibly alter your own artwork.

As a result of this lesson, students will know that they are capable of imagining what something could mean, even if they don't know what the story's original idea was.

As a result of this lesson, students will be able to work collaboratively and create visuals from a text.

Learning Activities:

Introduction/Opening (5 minutes)

Begin by asking students prompting questions [What does it mean to collaborate on an art project? What does it mean to illustrate something?] Explain that this project will have two parts to it, making a collage of words to tell a story and illustrating a story with colored pencils. Everyone will be making their own collaged story, but will be swapping with a partner and illustrating someone else's story.

Explain that they should be gluing their words down on the top and bottom of the page so as to leave room for the illustration in the middle of the paper. Remind students that when cutting out their words, they should try to cut out whole words as opposed to individual letters.

Demonstration (10 minutes)

For the demonstration have a pre-made paper with the collaged story already glued down. Invite a student to read the story to rest of the class, then ask the class to come up with ideas on how we could illustrate the story. Remind students that they should not be using speech bubbles in their illustrations, and should try to limit their use of words at all in the drawing portion of this project.

Transition: Send students to seats to begin working.

Activity (30 minutes)

Student will work on the collage part of this project for the first 15 minutes, then trade with their partner and work on illustrating their story for the second 15 minutes. If students require more time, this project can be done in two classes instead of one (one class for collaging and one class for illustrating).

Cleanup (5 minutes)

Have students clean up, remind them to put work on the drying rack and to clean all scrap paper off the floor and tables.

Materials needed for the lesson: