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Coral Reef Teacher’s Guide
Coral Reef Mural
Objective: Students work together to com-
plete a colorful, inspirational coral reef mu- age on the butcher paper. (Depending on your
ral. A video on the coral reefs or numerous
photos/color drawings of coral reefs would be
an excellent introduction to this project as it
would help the students to visualize the final
product. (This is a difficult project to complete
as a whole class and may be more easily com-
pleted by assigning small groups to specific
tasks.)
Interdisciplinary Index: Science, Art
Materials:
• overhead projector
• overhead projector pens
• transparency of Coral Reef Color Page or
transpar- ency paper
• butcher paper – approximately 3 feet by 6
feet
• optional media: crayons, markers, colored
pencils, watercolors, tempera paints, food
coloring, tissue paper, scissors, glue, con- or food coloring on dampened paper towels/
struction paper, etc.
• The Coral Forest: Diversity of Life on the
Coral Reef poster as a reference and color
guide.*
PRESENTATION:
1. Before class make a transparency copy of
the Coral Reef Color Page or trace the art-
work by placing transparency paper over the
design.
2. Prepare the area where the mural will be
com- pleted by covering it with butcher pa-
per. (You may wish t o use a l ight blue paper
to act as a watery background.)
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Life on the Coral Reef
3. Use the butcher paper as the screen for the
over- head projector transparency that you
created.
4. Have students use a pencil to draw the im-
class you may want them to copy all of the
details, only the background, or only the major
features.)
5. Decorate the mural. Use the The Coral For-
est: Di‐ versity of Life on the Coral Reefs
poster as well as videos or other artwork as
a color guide. Com- bine your skills and t
alents with t hose of your stu- dents to create
a unique class mural.
SUGGESTIONS:
1. Use a variety of materials to create a two or
three dimensional mural.
2 Create a soft-colored background by using
col- ored pencils, light colored tissue paper,
water colors, light colored construction paper,
coffee filters.
3. Create a vivid foreground by using temper-
as, markers, bold colored tissue paper, cray-
ons, or bold colored construction paper.
4. Optional: Add student invented creatures to
the mural. (See Create a Creature.)
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in back.