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标题：Make a giant insect collage - art and nature study project; includes related article - Column
作者：Mary Parks
期刊名称：Instructor(New York)
印刷版ISSN：1532-0200
出版年度：1995
卷号：March 1995
出版社：Scholastic

Make a giant insect collage - art and nature study project; includes related article - Column

Mary Parks

Your students will go buggy over this art project.

Insects are practically everywhere in our world, and some kinds have survived unchanged for the last 200 million years. Give your students a close-up look at bugs with this larger-than-life collage project that will send them on some exciting scientific discoveries.

PARTS OF INSECTS

All insects have three parts. First is the head with its eyes, mouth, and antennae (or feelers). The middle section, called the thorax, has three segments, each with a pair of legs. When an insect has wings, they are attached to the thorax. The third section is the abdomen, also known as the stomach.

Insects are very diverse. In this project, students will discover insects the way artist Georgia O'Keeffe discovered flowers: by enlarging them to 100 times their actual size!

MAKING BIG BUGS

Level: All grades

Materials: pencil, crayons, marker or paint; drawing paper; overhead projector; transparency sheets; transparency markers; large (size of a bulletin board or chalkboard) roll paper; colored papers; scissors; glue

Steps for Students:

1. Sketch insects with a pencil on drawing paper.

2. Add feelers, legs, wings, hair and other details.

3. Place a transparency sheet over each drawing. Using a transparency marker, trace the pencil drawings onto transparency sheets.

4. Place the transparencies on the overhead projector and project the images onto roll paper fastened to a chalkboard or bulletin board.

5. Trace the images on paper with crayons or markers. Color or paint and add details.

6. Cut out the different insects and glue them onto another large sheet of paper. Add finishing touches such as grass and trees to give the collage an outdoorsy feeling.