Summer : Plastic Oceans Sculpture : Lesson 2
Designing a hybrid Sea-Creature collaboratively
Designing a hybrid Sea-Creature collaboratively
Warm-up: 10 mins
- Ask students to share their hybrid sea-creatures design ideas with the whole class and discuss the creature’s features.
Introduction: 10 minutes
- Based on the similarity of their ideas, group children into teams of 3 students.
- Show the class images of plastic waste sculptures and discuss the processes in creating these works, “How do you think they attached the bottles to each other?”
Development: 15 mins
- Show the materials to the students: plastic bottles and bags.
- Ask each group to design a hybrid-sea creature and label the materials used. Encourage students to add lots of detail to their work, such as tentacles, scales, tails!
- Remind students to share the design input and ensure all group members are active participants.
Conclusion: 10 mins
- Invite each group to choose a spokesperson to share their ideas with the class.
- Ask students to share their hybrid sea-creatures design ideas with the whole class and discuss the creature’s features.
Introduction: 10 minutes
- Based on the similarity of their ideas, group children into teams of 3 students.
- Show the class images of plastic waste sculptures and discuss the processes in creating these works, “How do you think they attached the bottles to each other?”
Development: 15 mins
- Show the materials to the students: plastic bottles and bags.
- Ask each group to design a hybrid-sea creature and label the materials used. Encourage students to add lots of detail to their work, such as tentacles, scales, tails!
- Remind students to share the design input and ensure all group members are active participants.
Conclusion: 10 mins
- Invite each group to choose a spokesperson to share their ideas with the class.
