Recycled Robots
Students began this unit by investigating patterns and printmaking, and created a background by stamping found objects. We then looked at paintings by contemporary artist, Eric Joyner, and made up stories about the robots in his paintings. After reading the book, Clink, students invented their own robots with special abilities. When it came time to construct our robots, we reused materials including cardboard, cereal boxes, scrap paper, and bottle caps.