Ruben Moreno's Geo-Vistas activity is an excellent way to encourage students' creativity. The project allows children to become descriptive and expressive as they demonstrate a rich sense of inner relationships through art. Lesson Focus Creating a geometric cardboard sculpture covered with personal drawings. This activity lets children practice isolating different sections of their artwork and creating structure and sequence within a visual storyline. It also fosters spatial engineering and construction skills by allowing children to work with balance and angles to put their final piece together.
Students make sense of ideas and communicate with the visual arts.
Through the arts and humanities, students recognize that although people are different, they share some common experiences and attitudes. Students use creative thinking skills to develop or invent novel, constructive ideas or products. It could be poster board, cardboard, note cards, or even thin pieces of wood. Notching the shapes so they can be fitted together is a possible alternative to using glue guns. You can also use Elmer's glue or other liquid glue, but you must figure out a way to hold the sculptures together while the glue dries.