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The How to Create a School Sculpture Garden Manual
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Preliminary
model provides direction.
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Lesson 5 - Building a Scale Model
Objectives
Students will
- Plot a scaled version of the courtyard design. (Application)
- Analyze pre-fabricated components and materials available to complete a three-dimensional scaled version of the courtyard design. (Analysis)
- Practice working with model components and materials. (Comprehension)
- Create a model to scale of the courtyard design. (Synthesis)
- Evaluate their work and the work of the other teams by using the rubric included. (Evaluation)
Materials
- Wooden board for model base
- Balsa wood
- Glue
- Textured papers (grass, brick, stone, etc.)
- Landscape gravel
- Prefabricated tree and shrub bases
- Glue
- Craft knives
- Metal straight edge
- Paint
Vocabulary
- Model
- Scale
- Template
Teacher Preparation
- Review previous lessons to check for understanding and review anything indicated.
- Select a scale.
- Purchase prefabricated components as necessary (see resources).
- Practice working with prefabricated components. For example, tree trunks and limbs are available as die cut aluminum pieces that are relatively flat. The tree limbs must be bent and shaped to approximate the shape of a natural tree. Foliage material must be dipped into a glue and water mixture and stretched across the ends of the tree limbs to suggest foliage.
Procedure
- Define and give examples
of these vocabulary terms to students:
- Model: A model is a three-dimensional representation of a proposed work. It is smaller and in direct proportion to the actual work.
- Scale: Refers to a ratio that exists between a representation of an object and the actual object.
- Template: A flat, two-dimensional shape used as a pattern.
- Introduce the concept of a model.
- Select a scale.
- Ask students to print or draw a scale version of their original courtyard design. A drawing to scale is a drawing or plan where dimensions are the same ratio as the actual items drawn.
- Teach students how to cut a wooden base to the size of the scale drawing.
- Teach students how to cut to size and glue grass paper to the base.
- Teach students how to use the scaled plot drawing as a template for placing all of the design components.
- Demonstrate the correct procedure for modeling prefabricated components.
- Using materials at hand, show students how to construct items that are not prefabricated, i.e. balsa wood constructed tables and chairs.
- Ask students to glue and paint constructions as needed to approximate actual finishes.
- Assess student work (see Assessment Rubric).
In the case of Nottingham,
a new team comprised of a small number of students created the model.
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