Juxtaposed Collage Cityscapes - Successful third grade sketchbook lesson with slideshow!

I am in the middle of a unit on Chicago Cityscapes with my third graders.  We finished up our sketchbook project, "Juxtaposed Collage Cityscape," and I am super excited about their success!

To start, students cut out photos and drawings of buildings in Chicago.  They practiced overlapping and constructing a cityscape.  Next, we watched and discussed my little slideshow called "Juxtaposed Cityscapes."  Kids were then asked to draw something in their cityscape, that maybe wouldn't normally be there.
Next, students traced their drawn images with metallic markers, and used opaque paint markers to color.  If time allotted, students colored their buildings with color sticks.

Chicago Cityscape: Parts of Composition worksheet

I have several resources on a project I call Chicago Cityscapes: 

The original lesson plan

A Chicago architecture slideshow

and now a worksheet I developed about this project.  Some years you may have a class that just needs the project to be modified, and that is okay.  No one wants to teach a project over and over and over again the same way anyway! And that is how this worksheet was born.

Chicago Cityscape PowerPoint

I recently posted a lesson plan for Chicago Cityscapes.  Here is a free downloadable PowerPoint that teaches students about Chicago's cityscape, and also about how artists have interpreted it.