Collaborative Art

There are so many ways to turn about any lesson or project into a collaborative piece. I wrote a lesson plan last semester about making puppets for a stop motion movie. The students had to create their own puppets, but write a script and film a short movie together. The students needed to work especially close together on this project because it involved so many aspects such as how the characters would interact, writing the script and designing a set, then shooting the film and adding voice overs or music, then editing. Obviously this would be an advanced project, but it could be simplified to what we were doing with the students at the junior high and and making puppets. They could put on a play and film it in its simplicity after writing a script and making a backdrop.