Overview & Purpose:

To learn about community monuments and their power to bring about social change

Objectives:

1) To learn about community monuments and their power to bring about social change

2. 2)To visit the Land Heritage Institute and learn about Pon La Mesa’s message about
   

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3) To create a maquette (small scale sculpture) for an idea for your own community monument

4) To learn the mathematics/architectural principles behind making a large scale version of your model

Hook:  Students can watch the clip “This Mission’s Never Designed to Succeed” from the movie MONUMENTS MEN.  Discuss the importance of art and monuments to a community,  culture, civilization, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msHDVwFm4ek

Materials Needed:

To make your maquette:

Popsicle sticks and or craft sticks

Tin foil

Card board pieces

Hot glue or adhesive

Instruction:

●Begin the lesson by asking students to identify local monuments and what they symbolize. 

●Have students visit the Land Heritage institute and collect information from the Pon la Mesa Installation. 

●Using popsicle sticks, tin foil, cardboard pieces, etc., students will then create a maquette, or small “community monument” of their own, focusing on an issue that is relevant to their community.

●Highlight the purpose of the monument and symbolism in the design.

*Use a the link to the scale conversion calculator to convert from scale to real-life. http://webpages.charter.net/sinkwich/sdventure/html/sd_scalecalc2.htm

●Have each student show his or her monument and share why it is relevant to social change.

●The students might create a rubric to rate students' monuments on established criteria such as creativity, knowledge of the subject matter, and how well the monument reflects the issue.