This bulletin board is a presentation of an art lesson created by students marbling their drawings of attractions from around the world. The students had to draw a particular attraction using another picture as a reference. Once they had outlined their drawing in permanent marker the students marbled their picture using paint and shaving cream. The students added their choice of paint colors to a layer of shaving cream, swirled the paint however they chose, and then pressed their drawing, face down, into the paint. When the page is pulled up from the paint/shaving cream mixture, a scraper is used to remove the excess shaving cream. The paint remains, leaving a marbled effect. After the students had framed and labeled their work, the teachers; my partner and myself; created a map of the attractions to visit. The background of the bulletin board is the world with the continents cut out of different colored paper. The attractions are then placed on the board as near to the exact location on the map as possible. Yarn is used to show where the attraction actually belongs taking care to not obstruct the view of any other student's art.
An extension activity for this bulletin board would be to give the students, as groups, the task of creating a tour on Google Earth. Specific sights would need to be included in the tour along with features of the program that zoom-in to view the attractions through photos of the location. Then the groups will present their different tours to the rest of the class so everyone has a chance to travel the world.
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