Studying Science Through Art

In science class, second grade students learn humans continue to explore the interactions among water, air, and land. Air and water are in constant motion that results in changing conditions that can be observed over time.  Because they are learning to identify common weather patterns associated with each season, 2nd graders will create a fall landscape this month in art class using both collage and painting techniques. They learned how to create depth in their art by overlapping and by placing smaller objects in the background and larger in the foreground. 

 

After a classroom discussion about the changes we see in leaf colors in the fall and how animals get ready for cold weather, they drew animals that were preparing to hibernate or migrate.  They drew the animals using shapes they already knew.