Saturday, January 16, 2010

1st Grade Cityscapes


1st grade observed several pictures of cityscape and made an observation list of the lines, shapes, and juicy details. Since they just did a lesson on vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines, they had fun spotting them in the cityscape examples.

Students first drew their cityscapes, then watercolored their juicy details!











5 comments:

  1. Anonymous18/12/10

    amazingly beautiful....!

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  2. what examples did you look at with them?

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  3. Morning Denise! I have a Crystal Production pack that I ordered about 5 years ago. It includes 5 artworks of cityscapes. It's one of their Take 5 Print Sets and it's fabulous! I also use the landscape one. Here's the link to the site. http://www.crystalproductions.com/index.asp?url=IND

    I also printed out half sheet photos of cities for the students to use as a reference.

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  4. Wow these are gorgeous! I just did this lesson with my 1st graders, too. We started with a little directed line drawing in one point perspective, just drawing a road and a tall building.

    Some examples here:

    http://teachers2.wcs.edu/elem/nes/katieb/1Woodlee/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2Felem%2Fnes%2Fkatieb%2F1Woodlee%2FCityscapes%20with%20Perspective&View={D43884CD-5F25-4577-845A-C964317C1EFB}

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  5. Anonymous12/1/12

    There is a book titled "Wow City"
    that may work for visuals.

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