The last lesson students were mostly learning the form of the lizards. Now that they know the form they can really get creative with them. This first grade student added a person sitting on top of her "checker board" lizard. Many students added wings and other things to their lizard.
The older students were working on moveable lizards. This lizard was found on another education blog. I wanted the students to be able to create something a little more advanced then just the regular symmetrical lizard. This lesson was DIFFICULT. The hardest part for the students was folding the sides down and then returning back to the original fold. I feel like if I were going to teach it again all of the students would have to do this step at the same time and go more slowly. The precision of the folds and cuts is so important to the success of the lizard moving. The lizards that could not move still turned out awesome because they had texture. The example below is from a fourth grade student.
Another fourth grade student used tape for legs and stuck it to the wall.
A couple of students asked if they could take photos of their lizards in action. This is the photo they took. They said this project would be cool if they could extend it into an animation video.
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