Marbled Sightseeing

My partner and I did our activity with 2-D paper.  Our project included sketching the assigned place of interest  using a permanent black marker.  We then used shaving cream and tempera paint to create a marbled texture and dipped our completed sketches into the paint.  They turned out really well although a few students learned that too much texture mixes the paints too much and they got one sour color instead of marbled streaks of color. We displayed our finished projects in generally correct geographical positions on a bulletin.

The extension project we intended to teach was geography and tourism.  A teacher could also include a mathematical comparison of sizes or a historical timeline of the dates these were created.