"The View" Salt dough art project

This is my first art project was with salt dough, I made a scene from my YaYa weekend. It is the view from the front window of the house that we rented. One thing I learned while creating this is that art really is about expressing something about you or how you view something. It is not just about how well I can draw or comparing my art to someone else’s art. I think it is really important to have art in the classroom to help students put passion into their work and really connect with a subject. For example you are teaching geography and you keep hearing “I am really bad at geography” maybe you can split your class up into groups and have them make salt dough and shape it into a continent that the teacher assigns to each group. Each group has to research their assigned continent and give a presentation. When all is said and done you should have the whole world as a visual to keep in the classroom. This will help the students take ownership and the teacher is not just standing at the front of the room lecturing. When I set and think about it teachers can turn almost anything into an art project while they are still learning.