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BUG JARS   
Written by: Laura Stuart-Smith [Laura is an art teacher at St. Joseph School in Sharon, PA]

Grade: 2-8

Age: 8-14

Activity Summary:

Students will draw pictures of jars containing bugs.

Objectives:

Children will learn to look at the details of bugs and plants as they learn about symmetry and asymmetry.

What You Need:

  • large white paper
  • crayons
  • black markers
  • jar pattern (optional) Older children can do quite well drawing their own jar.

What You Do:

  1. Show children a variety of bug amd plant drawings.

  2. Teach them to look at the bugs from the top (symmetric) and from the side (asymmetric).

  3. Have them draw a bug jar with pencil (younger children can use a pattern for this).

  4. Have children draw bugs and plants, and a bug setting in their bug jars.

  5. Next children go over pencil lines with black markers.

  6. Finish with each child coloring their project with crayons.

Definitions

Symmetric:
Of or exhibiting symmetry.

Symmetry:
Exact correspondence of form and constituent configuration on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane or about a center or an axis.

Asymmetric:
Having no balance or symmetry.

Watch a video showing line symmetry:
www.linkslearning.org/Kids/1_Math/2_Illustrated_Lessons/4_Line_Symmetry/index.html

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