Line%20Pictures

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Line Pictures

• 3.4 The student will identify and use positive
  and negative space.
• Winifred Grantham

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Materials

• white paper (12x 18)
• black paper strips (1/2 x 9)
• white glue
• scissors

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REVIEW

• lines can make a shapes
• lines can make patterns
• lines show direction

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Teaching the Lesson

• I begin this lesson by showing examples.
• I point out how a negative shape (space) can be
  just as important as a positive shape. Then, I
  demonstrate how one cannot make a flat circle
  unless the strip is cut. I cut the strip. It
  becomes a broken line. The broken line is
  arranged in a circle. I point out the space,
  the negative shape inside the broken line.
• I demonstrate how one can arrange these strips to
  make patterns.

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Easy Lesson

• Third grade does not usually have any trouble
  gluing the 1/2 strips.
• I suggest that they cut and arrange the strips
  before gluing. Most students like to glue as
  they arrange the strips on the white background.
• Some students even cut some of the strips thinner
  (lengthwise).

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Examples Our Car
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Mamas Van
8
Flowers growing with Roots
9
House and Trees
10
Bicycle
11
A man fishing
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Thank you

• Janet Driver, my Montrose librarian
• Maria Munos, dear 4th grade teacher
• Kori Mosley, patient art coordinator
• and of course, my students, Gabriel, Corey,
  Angel, David, Ashante and Ethan who let me use
  their art work.