Project Title: Coral Reef Relief Collage
Medium: Collage - Pop-up Project 
Grade Theme: Oceans and Fish

Overview: Students will create relief collage landscapes of coral reefs using layers of construction paper with paper spacers and details with watercolor pencils
Art Skills: Drawing, cutting, gluing, composition
Process: Students will draw and cut layers of the ocean floor, coral, fish, and other aspects of a reef ecosystem a glue them together in a collage with paper spacers to give the composition depth.
Materials: Construction paper, watercolor pencils
Tools Provided by Classroom: Scissors, pencils, glue
Vocabulary: Coral Reef: A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building coral creatures.  Coral reefs have more life than any other part of the ocean, they are full of fish and ocean animals of all sizes.
Additional Resource: Link to Art History and Connection
Multiple Subject Integration: science, geography and biodiversity, ecosystems, food chain.

*Please note that samples were made by teaching artists.  Students will be encouraged to make their own versions of this project. Please DO NOT show students these samples in advance of the art lesson.

Description Summary: Today students had a special art lesson making coral reef relief collages, filled with fish and sea creatures.  They cut and glued layers of coral in bright colors.