Oh, hey..it's the end of October already. Jeeze.
We're back into the swing of things in a big way..but I want to talk about one of the first projects I do in September: Art Passports
Each year in art we create passports in both of my higher elementary levels. I love what this project does. It's a great starting point to see where students are in their art abilities, whether is drawing, coloring, cutting, threading, sequencing, etc. - you get to see the gamut...and it's pretty simple for the most part.
Because I love teaching from a multicultural standpoint..the passport is a great way to tie everything together. For each place that we study, students fill out a log of information about the project and a new fact that they learned. When we're finished, I stamp their visa page (just an old date stamper from the library - easy!) and we travel somewhere new. At the end of the year, each student has a written account of the places that they've been and the projects that they've done.
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The process for this is simple..but could definitely be jazzed up for higher levels with a more complicated stitched binding or glue..or could be adapted for lower levels by making a fold book. I've found that the following process works fabulously with grades 4&5:
PROCEDURES:
1. Ask students if they know what a passport is or if they have an idea of what it could be.
2. Explain that a passport is a document used when traveling from country to country. Passports began as letters of safe passage from an area’s ruler. Now they are international documents that confirm your identity and citizenship. If you use a passport to visit other countries, it may have some national stamps and seals to show where you are going or have been.
3. Give students an actual passport to look at. Point out specific elements in the layout of the book including photo, personal information, and the stamps of several countries.
4. Explain that as a class, we will be studying art from several countries around the world and that we need to make a passport in order to travel to them. Each time we "enter" and "exit" a country, we will need to stamp our passport.
5. Provide students with a template to create their passport. Have each student fill in necessary information. (I made a simple quarter page document in Photoshop that had a space for a photo, name, grade, age, nationality and passport number. I made another quarter page document in MS Word with the "Visa" information, and copied them front and back.)
6. Students will draw a passport photo in the allotted space and add color to the booklet cover. (LAMINATE the cover - trust me..you will not regret it.)
7. Demonstrate how to fit the booklet together to create the final work. (Stack together ID and Visa pages, hole punch two holes through the inner pages and the back cover, along the spine. Lace a piece of yarn through each hole and tie a knot on the outside, put the strings back through to the center and tie a knot in the inside. Cut off the excess string.)
8. Store each class' passports in a designated area within the classroom and fill out relevant information at the start of each project.
PROCEDURES:
1. Ask students if they know what a passport is or if they have an idea of what it could be.
2. Explain that a passport is a document used when traveling from country to country. Passports began as letters of safe passage from an area’s ruler. Now they are international documents that confirm your identity and citizenship. If you use a passport to visit other countries, it may have some national stamps and seals to show where you are going or have been.
3. Give students an actual passport to look at. Point out specific elements in the layout of the book including photo, personal information, and the stamps of several countries.
4. Explain that as a class, we will be studying art from several countries around the world and that we need to make a passport in order to travel to them. Each time we "enter" and "exit" a country, we will need to stamp our passport.
5. Provide students with a template to create their passport. Have each student fill in necessary information. (I made a simple quarter page document in Photoshop that had a space for a photo, name, grade, age, nationality and passport number. I made another quarter page document in MS Word with the "Visa" information, and copied them front and back.)
6. Students will draw a passport photo in the allotted space and add color to the booklet cover. (LAMINATE the cover - trust me..you will not regret it.)
7. Demonstrate how to fit the booklet together to create the final work. (Stack together ID and Visa pages, hole punch two holes through the inner pages and the back cover, along the spine. Lace a piece of yarn through each hole and tie a knot on the outside, put the strings back through to the center and tie a knot in the inside. Cut off the excess string.)
8. Store each class' passports in a designated area within the classroom and fill out relevant information at the start of each project.
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