Discovering California
Salt Dough Mapping! Really Fun!!!
So I had my third graders find CA on our country map, and our world globe, then draw our state on an 81/2" X 11" sheet of paper. We labeled states closest to us, then the border to Mexico, and the Pacific Ocean.
Identify Standards
I can create visual displays to help others understand what I am sharing.
I Can Use Research to Help My Writing, and Art
I can organize short research projects. W.3.7
I can research and use what I have experienced to gather information
I can write to share my opinion. W.3.1
Bridge Prior Knowledge & Create Interest with the Salt Dough Maps
Ingredients
4 Cups Flour
For my 20 kids, I doubled this recipe, and turned it into a quick math lesson.
1 1/2 Cup Salt
Mix up the salt and flour well
1 Cup hot water
I started with 1 cup and ended up adding more.
2 T. Vegetable Oil
Mix it all together until it makes a soft ball that won't fall a part.
Directions
First: Mix together in a large bowl
the dry ingredients
Next: add in the wet ingredients
Then: Mix it together until it forms a ball
Finally: kneed it to create the dough consistency that you wish and it is ready to use.
I mixed it well and gave each child about a large egg size ball that they flattened, and squished on top of their drawing of CA, until the state was covered. They built up the mountain regions and flattened out valley and desert.Then we let them dry over the weekend and we were ready to water co
CA 4 regions
Coastal, Mountain, Valley, Desert
Region Key
Decide the colors you will use for each region.
Which region will you choose for a landscape?
Select Texts for Skills and Content:: Images of California by Masters
Albert Bierstadt Painter of CA
]Identify Vocabulary
Landscape
Foreground
Middle ground
Back ground
Agriculture
Producers
Consumers
Harvest
Life Cycle
Natural Resource
Regions
Mountain
Valley
Desert
Coastal
Rule of Thirds
Composition
Depth
Elements of Art
Principles of Design
Overlapping
Placement
Point of View
Vanishing Point
Label Landscapes with Vocabulary Words
Performance Task
Students will view landscapes of California and then choose a region to make their own landscape of. Students will share their art work and present how their art compares and contrasts with one of the masters.
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Artful Teaching
Mrs. Schellenberg & Young Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Poem: Success- to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life breathed easier because of you.
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We used the wiring for our artful galimotos
Duncan Ceramics, Thank you! With your help and friends of the Fresno Art Museum 's support, every child created a tie-dyed T Shirt. You made our world brighter!
Fresno County Office of Education, we thank You for the opportunity to create with clay!
Thank you Mr. Bullwinkle and Fresno County Office of Education for awarding us with a grant to purchase a kiln and clay supplies. We are so happy and grateful!
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