For the past few months, we have been studying Mexico in Social Studies. As a final project for the unit, the students are working in groups of 2-3 to create a diorama that represents part of a Mexican village. Over the past few classes, we've been looking at many different images of Mexican villages, and discussing what types of buildings are in the villages, and what the landscape and vegetation around the villages is like. Today, the students, as a class, made their choices of what was going to be on their dioramas (we had to make sure we didn't have 12 Mayan temples, and no houses, for example!). Once this was all sorted out, the students were given their piece of foam-board, and began to sketch out a rough plan for what they were going to put on it. There were so many great ideas - I can hardly wait to see how these turn out!
(Don't worry... all cutting of foam-board was done by me, before students came into the class!)
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