Objective: To combine art and social studies to
develop students' critical thinking skills in a fun, interesting
and active manner; create diagrams from information and
use them to develop sports team uniforms.
Web sites: Use the sites listed in Sports
for research on existing sport teams and their uniforms.
Procedure:
- Students start by discussing which colors they like
to wear and then proceed to make a list of which colors
the various teams would likely wear.
- Have students get color information about every
team in every sport via the sites listed in Sports.
- Next students chart the data and make a Venn diagram
of the colors used.
- Using this information, have students design their
own shirt from brown paper shopping bags.
- Or, add to the fun by having a teacher lie on the
floor on a folded piece of butcher paper and tracing
around the body. Students design and color the uniform
on this template. Then students staple outside the
lines by three to four inches as they stuff the folded
over butcher paper with old newspapers. The result
is a human sized "doll" wearing the uniform
they designed. Make 10 to 12 per classroom, and it
really adds spice to the class.
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