Art - Inventions

Transdisciplinary Theme: Where we are in place and time

Central Idea: There are similarities and differences between the way people lived long ago and the way people live today.

• Inventions have been made that impact the things we do
• changes in daily life

This Friday, we explored what an invention means for our art activity. Here is the clip of the book "I am inventing an invention" by Grosset & Dunlap and Hill, Samantha. In the video, the children discussed about how peopled live in the olden days with the inventions we have nowadays. 

After we watched the video, the children were asked "how do you become an inventor?" 

Mila -"we decorate."

Cameron - "we can build things!"

Damon - "you need to be fast!"

Then, we had an hands-on art activity to make an invention plan. An open-ended free collage helped the children to have a visualization of their ideas on a piece of paper.  

Being a good communicator, the children verbalized their invention ideas with the teacher and their friends.

"What is this part?"

"My invention is a pen that would follow my to school!"

This is a bike that has a vacuum at the back!

This is my art work!

It was interesting to see that many children adding new functions to the items that they were familiar to make their inventions.