Began this 5th grade lesson by viewing images that represented the four seasons on a PowerPoint. Our teacher then asked us when we think of the four seasons what comes to mind and wrote a few on the board. Next our teaching explained that our lesson for the day involved print making. Each student was given four pieces of paper, and four pieces of foam. On the pieces of paper we were to draw a design that represented one of the four seasons. After we sketched the design on the paper we took pencils and redrew the picture on the foam. The tricky part is when drawing the picture on the foam one must push really hard to get the picture engraved into the foam. When that is done we went to the back table where our teacher was demonstrating how to roll the printing paint to a good liquidity in order for us to use it. Then we used the rollers to roll the paint onto our foam stamp and then printed it on some drawing paper. We completed this process three more times for the other three seasons. When we were done we signed our name on the bottom and cleaned up the room.
Print making is a wonderful technique to teach students. I would plan to incorporate print making in a high school setting by using rubber pads to create the stamp in stead of foam. By doing this it is teaching the students the main focus of print making which is making multiples of one print. An extension to any printing making lesson would be adding some information about the history of print making. This way the new material is presented in an interesting way.
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