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Learn how to fold these beautiful origami Carambola Flowers from a single sheet of paper — design by Carmen Sprung, video tutorial by Sara Adams.
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I have finally completed my tutorial for the making of my Mandala Journal. I tried to keep it to three parts, but, well... you can skip certain parts if you aren't wanting to experience things like paper maché! I think I'll let the videos do the teaching, and wait for questions to come in - then, as they do, I will update this post and address them rather than try to guess at what I've left out - because I'm sure I've left some stuff out!! Part I goes over applying joint compound, or wall spackle, to your book board covers. Part II is the finishing of the spackle. Part III is the creation of the interior board pages, which are paper maché. Part IV, the final video is the actual binding process. Hopefully the hand out will help with the binding details - help yourself by printing them out. Click on image for full view and to print. For personal use only, please.
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Fancy that...something I made in college during student teaching actually comes in handy! ;) On Thursday and Friday, I started the final project in my Ancient Egypt unit with my 6th graders (see below). For the final project, we took some notes on Ancient Egyptian artifacts and then I gave students the criteria for their final project for the unit: 1. Create an Egyptian artifact out of clay using at least one of the three hand-building techniques. 2. Artifact must include hieroglyphics. 3. Artifact must somehow reflect yourself in it. 4. You must turn in a sketch that tells me what your artifact will be, how you will build it, if you plan on glazing or painting it (or both), and you must tell me how you will be reflected in the project. All of my students have done the three hand-building techniques in class before, either with me or the previous teacher. We did coil pots last year, pinch pots the year before, and a majority of the students have done slab work with me in the after school program when we have done clay projects then. However, to remind them what the hand-building techniques are, I brought out some visual rubrics I created when I did my student teaching. And then I questioned myself as to why I don't make these for more projects! My craftsmanship rubric does count as a visual rubric (a visual rubric shows students what a project would look like for all grade steps, not just an excellent example), but I feel like I should be using more of these...especially with the Common Core requirements and Marazano way of teaching. Either way, here are my visual rubrics that I created...one for a coil pot, pinch pot, and slab box. Unfortunately, my other two slab boxes broke, because ironically, they were put together horribly! In addition to these ceramic pieces, I had also photographed them and created a poster version, just in case any of them broke in future years (smart thinking on my part! ;) ). So my question is, how many of you actually use visual rubrics like these in your class? Do you find them helpful? What mediums do you have them for? Do you make them for specific projects, or do you make general ones that can apply to multiple projects, like a craftsmanship rubric? On the opposite side of these rubrics, I have the basic instructions written out as to how to create each one of these projects, just in case students need further reminding. I did also create separate posters for each hand-building skill as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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We've spent the afternoon reveling in the beauty that was American Idol Lee DeWyze and his jaw droppingly beautiful bride Jonna Walsh's California nuptials. But if you can believe it...its about to ...
