Thursday, December 18, 2008

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Sixth Graders: 100 object project
















Hi everyone. For my first blog posting I've uploaded a selection of images in the slide show from the first of three ongoing projects I'm assigning my sixth graders. Enjoy!

For part one of the 100 object assignment, students had to brainstorm and make a list of 100 materials that could be used to make sculptural work. For part two they had to start collecting at least 100 of the same thing and figure out an ingenious manner of connecting the objects and build a surface. Size was dictated by their objects and manner of linkage.

They found that they could not underestimate the impact of the points of connection; there were at least 100 of these as well. They experiment with different kinds of connectors and ways of connecting. They had the choice of altering (flattening, coloring, melting, flaying, embellishing, etc…) the 100 things or not. Their connections could stiffen their surface or cause a draping effect- they had to consider the difference of soldering 100 keys together and what kind of effect that would create versus joining them with jump rings.