Children are awesome
Oct12This year, I was blessed with the opportunity to teach geometric solids for 2nd grade children at the same school my daughter studies.
They are about forty 7/8yo children that surprise each time I was among them! I encouraged them to watch some buildings on the streets so they could design and assemble a city with paper models using only the solids we’ve learned together - spheres, cones, prisms, pyramids, cylinders, rectangular solids, and cubes.
This small city they created was exhibited at the school’s Science Fair and it was used as part of a lighting pollution experiment. In order to make me completely happy, the school invited me to exhibit all my paper models and to provide a paper model workshop at the Fair.
Feedback was beyond my best expectations.
Antonin Langweil created this unique paper model of Prague. The model, on a scale of 1:480, takes up an area of two-by-two metres and shows the city as it looked 150 years ago.
Julian Bencito returned to school this year with an announcement. He told his Canyon Middle School art teacher Mike Bennett he had finished an extra credit assignment. He said the assignment was big, so big it had to be finished in the family’s garage.
