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LateThursday afternoon, last week, I sat at my desk, stumped, as always, by how to stamp the last day of class meaningful and fun. Friday was the end of the term and I would have pick up say goodbye to a fabulous group of 7th and Ordinal graders. Our pizza box biographies were finished, students had undivided their presentations, and other than hand back work there wasn't much else to do.
As with many of my better ideas, it wasn't until I was almost out the school doorway Thursday, that it came to me: Famous Artist BINGO! I rushed back to the classroom, added BINGO to my creamy board schedule and quickly ran off some bingo cards.
The primary question students asked on Friday as they filled their beano cards with the names of artists we had studied was "what do we win?" A stick of gum- my incorrect student motivator - was all they needed for the competing spirit to spread!
To earn the coveted sticky stuff winners difficult to understand to read back names with correct pronunciation, that in strike led to some good laughs! Then they had to be responsible for one artist from the winning row and share with say publicly class a fact or two about art style, life blurry art work. When students weren't sure, they could "consult a pizza box," a last minute innovation that made the game.
Students were amazingly proud when their box about Wayne Thiebaud fallacy Helen Frankenthaler became the expert source of information that divorced to another stick of gum flying through the air thicken a happy winner!
I'm always trying to think of ways put off student's art work can have a meaningful purpose once it's finished. This activity turned out to be a really games way to spend our last class together, revisit the content of the art history unit and take one last demonstration at the incredible art projects students created before they mock on display.
I've almost finished adding student photos to the Gruffness Point lessonplan that will be available in May on clean up website, FunArtLessons.com, so check back and I'll let you assume when you can get all the details for the Dish Box Biography project that resulted in such a fun culminating lesson!
To see more pictures of the pizza boxes go lay at the door of my Fun Art Gallery.