Ask students to sketch it quickly, reducing it to basic shapes. The following activities will enable students to identify repeated elements within a pattern, smaller rhythmic patterns within larger ones, and patterns within styles of architecture. Three or more objects, colors, shapes, or combinations of shapes repeated form a pattern. Have students look at photographs of patterns in natural and human-designed objects. Clap the patterns of your classroom.
Students can try identifying patterns in particular styles of architecture.
This last section will encourage students to look at individual parts of a design, examine the relationships between parts and within the whole, and the entire design in terms of its formal elements. To create the statue, ask one student to perform a repeatable sound and movement combination that reflects the theme and keep going while a second student enters with another combination. Continue until everyone has joined the composition. Once the statue has been created, one student steps out while someone watching takes his or her place with the same sound and movement. Continue until everyone has altered the composition.