Students are combining their illustration skills, calligraphy, gold/silver leaf, and mixed media to create amazing illuminated manuscripts. Some students have started on their chair projects based on their own stories. The chair project becomes the setting, character, or an object from the story. It is a scuplture project where students will use plaster of paris, painting, feathers, colored cellophane, wire, model magic, wood, etc. ro create their own 3-D visual interpretation from their story. Below, is a slide show of illuminated manuscripts.
As my school joins the maker and stem movement, more and more of collegial conversations focus on student projects as problem solving. The need for students to understand and to manipulate materials is imperative. One such project incorporates all of these ideas. It is the origami paper brain model by Martin Pyka. Examples below are from my 6th gr. class. http://www.martinpyka.de/paperbrain/
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