Right here is an project my eighth graders labored on for Veterans Day. They ended up engaged on this whereas I used to be instructing remotely with certainly one of my youngsters in quarantine so I used to be glad I had created the slides presentation and made a video to show the steps of the service artwork venture. The scholars discovered in regards to the historical past of Veterans Day earlier than creating combined media poppies to current to a veteran that they know or one in our neighborhood. 

To make the poppies, college students selected a small piece of matboard as a base and drew a stem with coloured pencils. They tore purple tissue paper into petal shapes and glued these down earlier than including a black button within the heart. I feel this could possibly be carried out with a variety of ages. It took my eighth graders about two class durations since we took the time to look at movies and take part within the discussions.

Subsequent, the scholars used Canva to create graphics to share one thing they discovered.