Friday, September 16, 2011

A Pattern Scavenger Hunt

Patterns in our school
Patterns, patterns, everywhere! In third grade art, we closely looked at pattern and how it can be dissected into some of the basic elements of art: line, shape, and color. A pattern can repeat any combination of those three elements. Then, we zoomed-in and examined some familiar patterns that I photographed around the school. After we were feeling pretty confident in the pattern department, we embarked upon a Pattern Scavenger Hunt on school grounds. In their sketchbooks, students were on the prowl for several different kinds of patterns: a geometric pattern, an organic pattern, a pattern using lines, a pattern in nature, and a favorite pattern. Pattern is the foundation of our first major project in the third grade. More to come on that later…

Recording pattern in sketchbook

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