Picasso Head and Snipping Tool

This is how I look and feel after a day of school and working on material for this class. I'm just kidding. I enjoyed this activity. It took me a while to understand how the color process worked. Once I finally realized that I had to click on the particular feature then choose its color, I was good to go. I liked the fact I could make the features bigger and then also make others smaller. When it came time to save it somehow I realized that there was not a save option. I tried right click and searching the page for some type of hidden feature to save it and could not find anything. Then it clicked that maybe I could use the snipping tool. Hence the fact that the snipping tool was paired up with this assignment and on the same day.  When I went to make my box I forgot that I could move the option box of the snipping tool. I kept getting only part of my art work. Then once I played around with it and realized that I could move it I was able to get my whole picture. 

I could link this Picassohead with Elementary Students. This would be ideal for demonstrating emotions, what those emotions mean, what causes these types of feelings and how to represent them. Emotions and emotion recognition is important in the development of young children. There are so many different situations that even young students go through and they do not know how to show their real feelings or even what it is that they are feeling. 

Standard #1 would best match up with this activity. With the above activity teachers would help promote, support and model creative and innovative thinking. Once I completed mine I would discuss it with my students and discuss why certain features were the way they were. This also links students to real-world issues that happen daily and uses a digital tool to express themselves. This would allow students to reflect their feelings, situations, and understand why they feel the way the do. They may even find another student that is going through the same things they may be and now feel as if they have someone to talk to about their emotions and feelings.