The final destination in our travels was the county and continent of Australia. We started the project by talking about collaborative art and how it might be helpful for this project. "Well the rocks are big, so the more people we have in our groups the easier and faster it will be to finish such large drawings. We can also split up the work according to everyone's strengths. Also, we might get to work with people we usually don't get to work with and discover that we are a great team." Once we split up into teams, each group was given an article about a different Australian animal. The teams split up the articles so that one person read and recorded notes about the animal, another about the diet, and another about the habitat. The groups then had to create a sketch that included all three things. We talked about how our drawings would have to be simplified and could include symbols to educate other Australians about our animals. Rocks are bumpy, so we could not include alot of detail in our drawings. The Australian rock drawings were primarily done before language existed, so the drawings were a form of language. Our drawings would show others walking past our "rocks" what the animals were like, what they ate, and where you might find them. When we moved on to start creating our large rock drawings, each group split up the jobs according to everyone's strengths. A challenge arose when the students learned they could only use chalk that was the color of the Australian rocks, sand, and dirt, because that was what they used long ago. If a group's animal lived near the water, they had to figure out how to draw the water without blue so that it still looked like water, and not a sidewalk or street. In the end we shared our drawings with the class and they had to guess what our animals, diet, and habitats were. If the class had some correct guesses, then we created a successful rock drawing that communicated to other Australians walking past!
Animal: Dingo
Diet: Rabbits, Rats, Mice, Birds, Reptiles
Habitat: Close to Major cities
Animal: Platypus
Diet: Worms, Yabbies, Insects
Habitat: Streams and Rivers
Animal: Tasmanian Devil
Diet: Insects, Lizards, Fish, Bones
Habitat: Forests and Caves
Animal: Kangaroo Island Kangaroo
Diet: Grass, Herbs, Leaves
Habitat: Scrubland and Grassland
Animal: Saltwater Crocodile
Diet: Fish, Birds, Small Mammals
Habitat: Mangrove Swamps, River Mouths, Coastal Marshes
Animal: Koala
Diet: Eucalyptus Leaves
Habitat: Eucalyptus Trees
Animal: Broad-Shelled Long-Necked Turtle
Diet: Fish, Frogs
Habitat: Rivers and Under the Mud
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