Students will make a Roman mosaic with different materials.

Students will learn to code using Hour of Code: Little Dot Adventure

Resources:

Lesson

• First Assignment
  • Students explored videos and photographs of the Roman mosaics in Risan, Montenegro.
  • After tracing a circle (yogurt lid) on grid paper, the students sketched a section of the mosaic.
• Second Assignment
  • Students cut paper to make the tiles to recreate the same section of the mosaic.
• Third Assignment
  • Using air dry clay and beans, the students recreated the mosaic.

(I did purchase green and red beans as well as black and white.  I wanted to give the students some choice other than black and white.  I said we were not copying the mosaics of Risan but rather we are inspired by them to create our own mosaics).

• Fourth Assignment
  • Students practiced their coding: Hour of Code: Little Dot Adventure