Teacher: Bramble
Grade and School: Richland Title 1 (All Grades)
Discipline Area(s): math science social science language arts arts
Project Title: Drawing from the Inside Out
Project Goal(s): To help students focus on particular area of object and isolate elements
Process and Steps:
Look at object and determine what is right in the middle. Students would then draw from
the inside out. Outside outline is the last thing drawn.
Teacher could do example on board with students looking at object and determining what
is drawn first.
Second and so on.
Students don’t necessarily need to draw entire object - they may run out of room if they
draw big.
Materials Needed:
Small objects with varying degrees of detail, stickers, covers of books, posters - really
anything with enough detail to distinguish middle from outside.
Essential Questions:
1 What skills, elements, vocabulary were taught?
Analyzing individual parts of a whole, learning that drawings are simply made up of lines
drawn differently.
2. How did you assess the children’s understanding?
Did they draw from the middle or did they immediately go to outside lines.
3. Where could you go from here?
I would love to cut out the middle of a poster, show students and have them draw from
the middle without showing them the poster. Compare what students thought the square
was part of and then show how square fits back into poster.
4. Other comments:
This is a fun way to show parts of a whole and how we all perceive things differently.