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Mona Lisa Lego Mural

12/5/2019

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Students worked collaboratively to make a portrait of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo DaVinci from legos. Their challenge was to work on 1/6th of the portrait together each picking one corner of the plate and working towards the center. They could also choose to be the placer or the picker and work with a partner.

This collaboration stresses teamwork and gives students a concrete way of contributing to one group effort. The finished mural is a visual for how artists pool their talents together for a common goal which is necessary in many of the media arts occupations like filmmaking, animating, and advertising.

Resources

Here are some helpful resources:
1. Brainpop has a great video about Leonardo DaVinci

2. I have a post about how to organize a lego mural using photobricks desktop app and printing with blockposters.com
here.

3. I also have a bunch of designs available for download on TpT that I used to celebrate black history month.

See How Artist Ai Wei Used Legos

Lego Grant from Donor's Choose

Click to view my purchases from the Lego Grant I received

I also put together a presentation on how to do these lego murals for my district. You can download the slides and see in detail the steps I would go through, examples, and resources. How to Organize a Lego Mural Presentation

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Tricia Fuglestad, NBCT,
is the K-5 art teacher at Dryden Elementary School in Arlington Heights, IL. with a masters in K-12 technology integration. Tricia has been recognized for her innovative teaching in 2010 with the PBS Teachers Innovation Award, won Illinois Art Teacher of the Year in 2011, awarded Teacher of Distinction in 2012 by the Golden Apple Foundation, received Western Region Elementary Art Teacher of the Year 2013, selected to become a Jacobs Educator 2014-15, was presented with the NAEA Art Technology Outstanding Community Service Award in 2016, honored with the ISTE Teacher Educator Network Tech in Action award, 2018, and won an Art Education Leadership Award via Artsonia in 2019. Learn more here.