Thursday, December 11, 2008

Dioramas...

In my seventh grade class we just finished our unit over The Outsiders, and my ninth grade class has just finished their unit over The Odyssey. Each class was assigned a big project grade that was going to be worth 300 points. I really wanted to let the kids do something fun that went along with each of their units. I decided to assign dioramas for bonus points...


The kids really seemed to get into doing the dioramas. I asked them to be very detailed with their scenes from the stories. My favorite ones came from my ninth grade class. I had students using clay to create a cyclops, and they also made some really neat ships and water with different matierials.


I am always surprised at the level of creativeness these young students can have when they actually want to have it. I just wish they would be as creative as they can be all the time...

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