The third grade had been learning about habitats and adaptation across their science and UOS curriculum so I thought it would be great to supplement those objectives with a unit on pigment making process. We examined and discussed various examples of paleolithic cave paintings from the Lascaux Caves in France and pulled on information that they already knew about habitats and adaptation. We asked ourselves questions like, Who or what were the subjects for their art work?, Wh

This was a project that was done about 2 months ago. I was really eager to break out the acrylic paint with my students and begin their basic intro to painting. We had been practicing observational drawing, and looking a space and various forms of geometry the week before, so I thought they were ready to take this on. We went over their initial observations about where they wanted to sit and what kind of perspective they would be getting from the still life. It took 1 sessi