Final Project
Learners work to memorialize some of their favorite places through collaborative art.
Learning Objectives
- I understand that place is a representation of home.
- I can construct maps and other graphic representations of both familiar and unfamiliar places. (D2.Geo.1.3-5. C)
Essential Questions
- What sorts of maps did we explore to deepen our connection to place?
- What artists helped us understand home?
- As geographers, what do we know now about the world that we didn’t before we started this unit?
- How does it feel to see your friends’ special places represented alongside yours?
- What message or feelings do you want others to get from looking at these images?
- If we are far from some of the places we created, how did it feel to create them today?
Lesson Plan
Ask learners to reflect back on all of the learning they have done up to this point. You may prompt them with questions like, What sorts of maps did we explore to deepen our connection to place? What artists helped us understand home? As geographers, what do we know now about the world that we didn’t before we started this unit?
Introduce our final project: a mural where each learner will depict a place that they would like to safeguard. This can be their special place from lesson two, or any place of their choosing. In creating a mural of all our special places, we create a collaborative space, free of the confines of borders and long distances, where all of our special places can co-exist within a short distance from one another. Learners will begin by looking at other examples of murals to serve as inspiration for collaboration and community.
Show the slides Examples of murals and collaborative design.
Materials
- Art supplies for depicting learners’ special places
- If following the final project example: glue, colored pencils or markers, a photo of the learner, and a map of a place that is important to them
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