Carissa's Creatures

Goal: Students will learn about Native American masks and how animals
often inspired them. Students will incorporate the elements of art into their
masks. The students will start by coloring in their mask with marker, and then
going back in and collage paper onto the mask with glue.

"My experience teaching the younger kids went very well. I was pretty nervous because this was really my first time teaching and being in charge of a classroom. I felt that the children were really engaged throughout my motivation and they responded well to all of my questions. Overall, the entire lesson went pretty smooth, although I wish I would have emphasized coloring in their masks first and leaving no white showing through on their mask (unless that was intentional of course, and part of their animal). During my lesson a young boy was scared of an image of a poisonous frog on my Power Point, and when the time came to start the mask he kept saying he was scared. I told him “why don’t you make an animal mask that fights of the poisonous frog?” He seemed to respond well to this and he made an animal called “devil eagle” It fights off the poisonous frog so that the frog could never hurt the young boy. I felt that I was successful in prompting the children when they were stuck. Overall I had a wonderful experience, the children have beautiful minds and wild imaginations that I love." - Carissa