3-D Biomes

This artwork was the lesson that Becca and Alyssa taught us.  We used the knowledge given to us at the beginning of the lesson to create a biome for a certain animal.  Once we decided on our animal we drew the background of our biome in oil pastels. In my artwork the sun, tree, grass, and water are all my background.  The next part we created was the middle ground.  In my picture, the birds represent the middle ground.  Finally, we created our foreground as our animal.  We did this by drawing the animal and then connecting it to a little piece of paper that is accordian folded to make the animal "pop" from the artwork.  I created a rhino as my animal.

A cool extension activity for this lesson would be to have the students create a biome of themselves.  They could be there room in the background and then create themselves and the foreground.