Where have the Anasazi gone? Beneath our feet...what of all the landfills? What will be the depositional environment of our time?
This art lesson began with a power point discussion on how mountains, mesas, plateaus, folds, buttes, and arches are formed. Much of the information gathered on land formations came to me from Capitol Reef and Arches National Park websites and the Geology faculty at UVU. The fifth graders worked with photographic images from Waterpocket Fold, The Colorado Plateau, Arches National Park, and others as reference for shape, color, value, and texture of the landscapes. We created watercolor resource materials using various watercolor techniques and resists, tore our papers and layered them in various interpretations of those images.
We completed the artwork with an ink drawing of a solitary feature like a tree, a bird, a snake, or a cactus that would create a point of view for the writing exercise. Student artwork was placed on easels and as a class, we started forming a word bank of descriptive vocabulary that would tell the story of our lone figure's sensory experience in the desert environment that they created.
I would like to extend this experience to
We completed the artwork with an ink drawing of a solitary feature like a tree, a bird, a snake, or a cactus that would create a point of view for the writing exercise. Student artwork was placed on easels and as a class, we started forming a word bank of descriptive vocabulary that would tell the story of our lone figure's sensory experience in the desert environment that they created.
I would like to extend this experience to
- describe depositional environments and fossils,
- Consider how the depositional environment of the time we live in now might look in the future
- use authentic pigments and textures gathered from rocks, insects, and plants,
- discuss invasive vs. indigenous plants and animals and habitat
- use student photography as resource imagery
- include other types of writing like argumentative,
- have students create a mosaic mural strato-column of the Waterpocket Fold that tells the history of one particular part of the earth's surface
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