This lesson was taught by Kirsten Cronin and Jackie Eikamp and they taught us about stepping stones. Before the day of their lesson, they asked us to bring in a photo that meant a lot to us, and they laminated the photo for us. They started by teaching us the different techniques or designs of stepping stones. They gave us a piece of paper then to draw our design out, or what we were going to use in our stepping stone. They called us over to then have cement poured in our plastic containers. They instructed that we shake the cement around in the container so that air bubbles would come to the top so we could pop them. After that, we were instructed to place paper towels on the top to soak up some of the excess water from the cement. Then we were instructed to start decorating our stepping stone using our picture and different colored stones, glass pieces, and marbles. I used balance in my stepping stone, which shows that each side of the stepping stone is the same. I decorated mine with my picture of my family. My family means everything to me, and so I decided to put a picture of them on my stone. I used pink, blue, green, and orange stones to decorate the stepping stone, as well as using large marbles to hold my picture in. I also place a butterfly on my stone to add color and the spring/summer time feeling!
An extension activity that I would have my students do with this project would be to include science. We would work with cement and the chemical make up to see why it hardens when water is added to it. We could then experiment with other fluids such as coffee, or juice to see what that does to the cement. We would then make our own stepping stones using these fluids and see what different colors the fluids create.
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