Project Description
Students will have the opportunity to choose a planet to study and design a species based on the attributes of that planet. In groups of two students will discover the Spectrometry of their chosen planet and develop models to describe the atomic compositions, analyze and interpret data, study societal impact, thermal energy, and chemical reactions. SPECtrum Art David Tinoco, Hector Rivera “Stellar” Styrofoam head, clay, cardboard,& paint 2015-2016 What we learned was how to make a clay head and shape it into an alien figure that has very cool details and facial features.We also learned how to paper mache and a cool way to make a planet by paper macheing a balloon and painting it after words. I learned about a new planet called kepler 62b and its characteristics. By learning about the planet we were able to create our alien that could survive in the planet’s cold temperature. It is made of styrofoam and formed with clay. This project was fun and full of creativity. We had a lot of obstacles but we finished strong and met our goal, we could’ve done a better job on the painting because there is no color transition and it looks sloppy. The final product was very creative. We learned a lot about clay modeling and painting. One of the best memories is all the aha moments where we would choose a really good color or we would shape a piece of clay to look really good on the head. We did have sometimes where we disagreed or we were stuck but we always found a way to get out of it. For us, picking how the alien was going to look like was kinda hard because we didn't know what our planet was so we couldn't actually give the alien its traits until we knew what type of planet we had. We chose dark colors because darker colors attract heat and our planet is cold. The planet is painted based on a picture. Its greyish blue with a added brownish green. The grayish blue is the icy surface and the brownish green would represent the rocky surface. We decided to put black eyes on our alien make the eye so that it is only purple because the alien has infrared eyes and can see body heat. |