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Unit: Renaissance Project: Inventions

Featured Artist: Leonardo da Vinci

Objectives:
1. Identify the many Leonardo da Vinci inventions.
2. Create an invention of Leonardo da Vinci or create one of your own.
3. Recognize the various shapes used in the inventions.
4. Evaluate the use of shapes in students’ inventions.

Materials Provided:
Wooden Geometric Shapes
String
Colored Chenille Stems (pipe cleaners)
Sticky Foam Shapes
Colored Wooden Spools
Wooden Craft Sticks
Glue Dots
Scissors

Materials Needed:
Pencils
Paper

Vocabulary:
1. Leonardo da Vinci: born in 1453 from a region in Florence, Italy having been a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer during his lifetime.
2. Invention: a new form, composition of matter, device, or process. Some inventions are based on pre-existing forms, compositions, processes or ideas while others extend through the boundaries of human knowledge.


Motivation:
1. Show and discuss examples of da Vinci’s inventions.
2. Demonstrate an example of one of the inventions or one created by you before students begin.
3. Show students the finished project.

Instruction:
1. Choose one of Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions to recreate or come up with your own invention. Think of something that has already been created that could be altered to make a task simpler or try thinking of some inventions that could be combined to make one machine. Use your imagination to come up with something that could be useful to everyday life or maybe just in certain situations.
2. Draw the design on a blank sheet of paper using simple geometric shapes.







3. Label the different parts of the object and give a description of how the object is going to function. List the multiple tasks the new machine is able to carry out or the way in which it will perform.







4. Construct a 3-D model of your design using the, geometric wooden shapes, colored wooden spools, wooden craft sticks, string, colored chenille stems (pipe cleaners), colored foam sticky shapes, and glue dots.








Evaluation:
1. Draw and create an invention from Leonardo or from imagination?
2. Use correct techniques to create a 3-D object from the drawing?
3. Evaluate completed work?


 
 




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