Depicting Superheroes
2nd Grade Lesson about recognizing visual evidence and creating superheroes by engineering pop-up scenes out of paper materials.
Setting the Criteria
We start the lesson by reading 10 Rules of Being a Superhero. After, the students are given a learning packet that has photo examples of pop-culture superheroes. They are asked the question "How do we know these are people with superpowers?" As a class we discuss and fill out the worksheet using visual evidence for our answers. This becomes the criteria for how to design and create their own superheroes.
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Exercise in Perspective
Before creating the pop-up scenes for their superhero creations, we discuss basic perspective. How objects closer to us are larger than objects that are farther away. They have to collage three dogs of different sizes to show perspective. This helps front load and set the criteria for their pop-ups when they are required to have at least 3 objects in their superhero scene: one in the foreground, one in the middle ground and one in background.
Assembling Pop-ups
Students watch a demonstration on how to cut, fold and glue paper to create their scenes for their superheroes. Their pop-up must pass the stress test, when turned upside down none of their parts will fall off.
