Coleman's Camp SUMMER 2014 - Book Cover Based Perspective

• Students looked at artists who use perspective to fool the human eye, including matching well-known portraits with a new or "expanded" context outside of the frame.  

Coleman's Camp WINTER 2013 - Large Scale Maze Creation

Using Old-Style Wooden Marble-Mazes as Inspiration, Kids worked in Groups to Design, Build, Test, and Revise Large Scale Unique Versions of this Classic Game.  X and Y axis, group planning, and team negotiation were all needed to navigate the pathways.

Coleman's Camp FALL 2013 - Large Scale Painting

Scaling Up of Painting Techniques with Nontraditional Materials

Coleman's Camp - Weekly Journal Entry: 3/18/2013

Week of 3-18: This week we were able to have an extra session of Coleman's Camp on Monday.  This group of kids was able to take advantage of the beautiful weather to have a completely environmental / green Coleman's Camp.  On the grounds of the Library, we first collected natural materials such as leaves, bark, cherries, sticks, rocks, etc.  We then shaped mounds of earth and grass and created small mound homes or hovels that a creature might live within.  Our goal was to make a small magical or fantastical living space that one might happen by in the woods during an imaginary story.  The kids did an amazing job and we photographed the homes they made with the idea to later use some photo-editing software to copy in creatures we will create in our next session.  We also walked the perimeter of the library to examine the parts of the building they had never seen, including fossils in the exterior stone walls, drainage pipes, and the recessed areas of the building.  The Thursday group had a special meeting at the Central Resource Library and went on a book hunt through the stacks until each kid had dozens of books.  The Thursday and Saturday groups created flip mouth cards for skits, with the Saturday group finishing with enough time to record several skits that they brainstormed, each of which involved monsters!  They were exceptional at their improvisation skills and even invited a little sister and mom to join in!

Coleman's Camp - Weekly Journal Entry: Second Week

2nd week: Exploration of our Solar System using scale models!  Short films from Hubble Telescope and images of the universe, especially our planets.  Using metric system and meters to create scale model of the distances between planets in the Corinth parking lot.  Also introduction to true scientific experimental model of testing one change on an experiment - RotoCopter, making the wings larger, heavier, longer, or shaped differently.