What a wonderful book! The author and illustrator have managed to combine
a delicious array of modeling projects with a thorough discussion of
the cognitive, social and personal benefits of the act of transforming
a plastic material into an object of beauty.
You’ll find suggestions for modeling from first grade through high school
and beyond (including – and I’m so very happy to see this spelled out
and illustrated – the exercise of transforming a sphere of clay successively
into all the Platonic solids!), beautifully illustrated and clearly
explained.
In the second half of the book, you’ll find background information
as to how modeling teaches about the world, enhances cognitive skills
and develops human beings.Outstanding!!
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Sculptural Ideas for School and Home This book extols and describes the
hands-on activity of modeling and how it works upon the mind, building
intelligence through a rich complexity of sense experiences.
Profusely illustrated by Elizabeth Auer,this book provides the parent
and teacher with information to stimulate and activate children.
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