Untitled Document Thomas Dzicek Capt. This project can be adapted and modified to meet a variety of needs and age levels. Students, with teacher guidance, write a description of a fictitious monster. Teaming two students to work together on a description works well.
Students draw their monster and evaluate strengths and weakness of the written description.
Finally, students refine their description of a fictitious monster. Descriptions are e-mailed to the receiving class who draw pictures of the monsters, being careful to adhere to the descriptions. A mutually convenient time is scheduled for video conferencing and monster pictures are compared to each other. To insure security, a nearby university has been kind enough to allow use of their reflector. As extension activities, monster descriptions were the basis for paper mache creations, and bulletin boards displayed monster descriptions and pictures.