Student understanding is checked by asking students to identify lines or details that need to be drawn to make the perspective accurate and complete. Students use their imagination and decide on a bird's-eye view that they would like to draw. It can be of a city, countryside, landscape, or even another planet. Students may choose to use building blocks to create a scene. Students who choose to do so, design their model on their desk or the floor to give them a bird's-eye view.
Students sketch a rough draft of their idea on scratch paper.
After students critique their rough drafts they collect their chalk and black paper from a supply table. Students begin their drawings by visualizing a horizon line in the upper half of their paper and drawing most of their scene below it. They draw details by adding windows, people, animals, plants, clouds, stars, and shading or sunlight effects. Students sign and mat their artwork on white paper. Students clean-up and prepare for group sharing about their artwork and to reflect on the lesson.