Goals:

The students will construct a collage of pictures and/or words pertaining to shipwrecks, focusing on the Titanic, as a cover for their journals.

This activity will exercise the students' imagination and creativity

Materials:

magazines

construction paper

scissors

glue

Time:

This lesson will require two hours of class time depending upon the availability of resources.

Procedures:

1.  The students will choose some magazines to find and select pictures and/or words for their cover.

2.  The students will cut out the items that they are going to use in their collage.

3.  The students will decide the best arrangement of the items on his/her cover.

4.  The students will glue the items on the cover.

Assessment:

The students must create a decorated collage for his/her journal cover. Criteria for success: The collage must be focused on the ideas discussed in class about shipwrecks and the Titanic.

The collage must be organized in a neat fashion. Criteria for success: The contents of the collage must be on the paper, whereas visible glue or fringes are not accepted.

The students will receive a +, +/-, or - on their collage depending on whether or not it is focused on ideas about shipwrecks.
 

+   = The collage's decorations are 100% in correlation with shipwrecks.
+/- = The collage's decorations are 85% in correlation with shipwrecks.
-  = The collage's decorations are 75% or below in correlation with shipwrecks.

The students will receive a +, +/-, or - on their collage depending on the neatness of it.
 

+   =  The contents of the collage are on the paper, and no glue marks or fringes are visible.
+/-=  The contents of the collage are on the paper; however, either glue mark or fringes are visible.
-  =  The contents of the collage are not on the paper, and glue marks and fringes are very noticeable.

Curricular Strands and Major Concepts:

Language Arts - browsing through magazines, in search of pictures and/or words that help express their views on shipwrecks.

Art - creating an original journal cover.

The Titanic - developed by Kelly Coleman, Nikki Cosgrove, Megan Mills, & Dorothy Weber

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