Students: Brooks Markowski, Adian Heredia, Emmett Satz, and Calleigh Herrick
Grade: 4
School: Neshobe
Hometown: Brandon, VT
Title: Elemental Shoes
Medium: Markers and pencil on paper
Teacher: John Brodowski
Statement from Brooks, Aidan, Emmett, and Calleigh:
The project we designed is a set of four different shoes that give the wearer different abilities based on the elements represented on the shoe. Aidan designed an earth element shoe that can plant plants when you walk. Emmett designed a shoe based on the air element that allows you to walk on air and even fly by pressing the hidden smiley face button. Brooks designed a shoe based on the fire element that can walk on fire and is fireproof. Finally, Calleigh designed a shoe based on the water element that allows the person who wears it to walk on water and move water.
Teacher’s statement:
This project came out of a collaboration between Art and Library classes. During Library class students read and discussed a book called “Someone Builds the Dream” by Lisa Wheeler and Loren Long. The book is one of this year’s Red Clover Book Award nominees. It is about how the people who imagine things like new buildings, parks, and products have to work in cooperation with all the people it takes to actually build those ideas – like carpenters, engineers, electricians, and so many other skilled people. During Art class students were challenged to design a new building, space, or product and then consider who they might have to work with to actually get it built.
