Day 1

Goals:

1. The students will work together to create a class Caribbean T- shirt.

2. The students will tie dye their T-shirts.

Time:

two hours

Resources/Materials:

plain white T-shirts (one for each student), variety of dying colors, rubber bands, buckets, water, place to dry T-shirts (clothesline, hangers), paper, pencils, markers, crayons, colored pencils

Note: The class will be broken up into two equal groups, with one half of the class working on the T-shirt design, and the other half will tie dye their shirts. Then they will switch groups.

Procedure:

1. Divide the class into two groups.

2. Group A will work in small groups to create a possible design to print on a T- shirt.

3. Each group will create a design. At the end of the hour the class will decide upon one design that they want printed on their T-shirts.

4. The teacher will give brief instruction on how to tie dye the Caribbean T-shirts.

5. Group B will arrange rubber bands on their shirts and then dip portions of the shirt into the desired colors.

6. When they finish dying the shirts, they will hang them up to dry.

7. Then group A and group B will switch activities.

Assessment:

The students will be assessed on participation in the activity. (See participation rubric at end of week.)

Curricular Strands:

Art - T-shirt design, tie dye

Social Studies - Caribbean design of T-shirt

English - communication, working together

Possible Extensions:

Students could make these T-shirts earlier and sell them as a fund- raiser for their Caribbean class trip. Students could use fund-raising money to buy the t-shirts.

Carribean Unit - written by Trina Collins, Richard Wheeler, & Daniel Shimek

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