Sixth graders enjoyed a field trip to Laumeier Sculpture Park this week to learn about perspective while incorporating art, math and creative writing. The sculpture park is an open-air museum in Sunset Hills and the perfect setting for this triple-subject lesson called “One Sculpture – Three Stories.”
In preparation for the outing, students learned specific math concepts. At the park, each student was assigned one sculpture, and they applied the math concepts to their respective sculptures as they recorded their measurements.
Back on campus, students spent the next day creating scaled-down replicas of their assigned sculptures in the art studio. They also co-authored a creative writing piece to go along with it. To finish out the project, students will present their sculpture replicas and stories to their classmates next week. If students worked on the same sculpture, they’ll be in the same presentation group. This way, students will see and hear different creative perspectives about the same sculpture that they studied.
What a fun, hands-on way to learn about multiple perspectives and one’s own bias in this Laumeier Sculpture Park lesson! For more information on this lesson, check out the website that Math Teacher Mr. Dustin Delfin created on the One Sculpture-Three Stories 6th Grade Project.