Currently, my 3rd graders are in the middle of a Mondrian unit. I've posted before how I've used Mondrian, and in this case, the final project is something new I'm trying out this year. Before we get to that, however, here is how I opened up the unit.
This unit was started with a substitute as it was during one of the weeks I had to take my husband to his chemo treatments. My substitute used my power point to introduce the works of Mondrian and to review the mathematical vocabulary that corresponds with Mondrian (i.e. horizontal line, vertical line, squares, rectangles, geometric shapes...COMMON CORE MATH!).
Students then created these Mondrian animals on white paper using markers and rulers. This was great practice for them on how to hold a ruler.
Students cut out their animals and glued them onto black paper to make them look nice and crisp.
After the Mondrian animal project, I was back to introduce students to the final project, which is a clay cube project (something students are currently working on in math...3-D forms).
On the front of this worksheet is color theory review. These students already knew what primary, secondary, warm and cool colors were. The complementary colors were a new addition.
On the back of the worksheet, students once again used a ruler to draw in their lines. This is where I pushed students to not just simply draw a grid, as many of them did on their animal above. We looked again at Mondrian's work and students realized that he used a variety of sizes of squares and rectangles. The final aspect of this worksheet was that students had to color their cube using the color scheme of choice. Mondrian used primary colors, but I didn't want to hold students to that color scheme, thus the color theory review.
Part 3 of this post will show you how we glazed our cubes. Coming soon!
Part 4 of this post will be our finished, glaze-fired cubes! Coming soon!
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