In this lesson for third graders, we review how perspective became a huge innovation during the Renaissance and its lasting impression in art. We practiced creating perspective, which is drawing things as you see them in real life (i.e. railroad going through mountains, roads to the sunset, sidewalks along buildings). First we started with making a vanishing point, a small dot in the middle of the upper half of the paper. We drew two slanted straight lines that met in the vanishing point, and creating buildings by drawing lines from there. This activity could be extended into mathematics if students are figuring out blueprints and the math going into that, working with lines, creating 3 dimensional objects, etc. It's a great history activity if students are learning about the Renaissance as well. It is difficult to get started, but impressive when students get the hang of it and exaggerate.
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