4th grade students studied various castles from Germany, Japan, and Spain. Students were then given the design challenge to design their own castle while using Germany, Japan and Spain castles as inspiration.
Finally before students were able to begin drawing their castles students practiced drawing different individual 3D forms including spheres, triangular prisms, rectangular prisms, cubes, cones, and cylinders. Students were so impressed with themselves when they realized they could successfully creating drawings that appeared to jump off the page-as if they were 3D. ;)
Below are images of the beginning stages of our castle drawing design challenge. Students will be adding color, as well as creating an atmosphere for their castles using tempera paint.
