In this final lesson with my class of 3rd graders, I wanted to bring together everything we had talked about up till now. Over the last 6 lessons, the students and I have been able to talk about cultures and traditions around the world. In this lesson, I wanted students to use ideas that they had learned about other's culture in order to think about their own.
The first step was to recap previous lessons. We reviewed what culture was and why it was important. Then we went through a powerpoint that had the pictures I had used in previous lessons. With these, we not only reviewed the cultures, but we identified different aspects of a culture.
Using this list, we then shifted to talking about our own cultures. We talked about how we see these elements in our own lives.
The art assignment was based on this idea. They were to create a mixed media collage that showed different part of their culture. This is a collage that I created ahead of time out of clipart. I tried to cover a variety of ideas. The pajamas reference my family's yearly tradition of getting new pajamas on Christmas Eve.
For the collage, we let them use just about all of the materials that we had used up till now, including string, markers, chalk pastels, and colored pencils. I also brought old magazines, and the teacher let the students use watercolors.
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