models

role playing

setting criteria

graphic organizers

 

 MODELS

Object Transformations

Changing the size of an object to make a new "skin" for the body affects the space around it, its ability to interact with other objects and its actual use. As students make enlarged sketches of objects on paper smocks and wear them, they get inside their objects to experience being another size. They gain another point of view. The space of the classroom is transformed as the enlarged objects begin to function. What seemed to be a simple change - making something bigger - leads to a new series of questions that needs to be resolved: Who am I?, where was I born?, who are my friends?, where do I sleep or sit? and what is my work?

Based on Chapter 6 of Transformations: Process and Theory by Doreen Nelson.

1. Selecting an object with personal memory to become a new skin for the body, a "new" you.
2. Measuring the person.
3. Measuring the object.
4. Recording the object.
5. Studying geometric shapes found in the object.
6. Building at various scales.
7. Examining ratio and proportions.
8. Displaying and explaining.
9. Building as a "quick" body cover.
10. Building as a detailed body cover using structural principles.
11. Putting in the details.
12. Dressing up.

13. Meeting the families.
The Candy family...

...The Dice family.

ROLE PLAYING

SETTING CRITERIA

 

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