Fifth+Grade



Fifth Grade Lesson Ideas

Red Oak 5th grade and Art are doing an integrated unit on animal masks and culture, with individual plastergauze masks under construction in the artroom. The students are really hyped because they are having discussions in the classroom to support what is going on in the art room. They are thinking more deeply about their animal and its characteristics. This year I have instituted an art journal, so they have pre-written why they chose the animal. Materials: styrofoam heads* from Blick catalogue, also round balloons strips of plastergauze; bags of paper clay for muzzles,etc * use a layer of wet paper towels to separate plastergauze from the styrofoam head scraps of cardboard; acrylic paint



more finished masks: 2/2011