How do you teach perspective? Here is an image of an in-progress lesson of perspective that I was working on with 5th grade.
Here is how I teach perspective...I make it a unit!
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Day 1: Introduce Perspective with PPT...show images of how to make a box 3D, photography and perspective, 1 point perspective vs 2 point perspective, Da Vinci's last supper, etc. A nice overview of the horrors to come! Mwhahahah
Have students put shapes into perspective...such as a box, a circle, a rectangle, a star, and a triangle.
Day 2: Review perspective powerpoint, review how to put a box into perspective. Show them how to make block letters, and students practice putting their name into perspective. They can color it when they are finished. (I use a block letter "cheat sheet" that I created for the students who struggle with block letters)
Day 3: Final review of perspective. Introduce city project. Students need to make at least 5 building in perspective for their city. Creativity and detail is key to making their city interesting!
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I like teaching perspective this way because it gives students multiple days to try to "figure out" perspective. On the first day a lot of students think that making a box is easy...until they try it and get really frustrated! I try to help as many students as I can...but I can't reach everyone that first day and a lot of them give up early. But on day 2, we use perspective in a different way with letters, and then some of the people who didn't get it before suddenly get it! Also...some people who had it lose it with the more difficult letters. By the end of this unit, 90% of students can put 5 boxes into 1 point perspective.
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