Coat of Arms

This lesson we learned first about the history of the symbols on the front of shields and what they stood for we then learned about what the different symbols and designs meant so we could chose which ones we wanted to use on the front of our shields. We were to choose which symbols and design we wanted. I chose a pencil because I am artistic, arrows for loving, bumble bees for hardworking, and the fire at the bottom for independence. The colors represented different things as well, pink for romance, gold for elegance, and blue for confidence. We first laid out our design on a plain piece of paper and used a tool to press that exact design firmly on the paper and then it would go through onto the foil. Once on the foil you use sharpie to go over your design and then we made a frame.
An extension to this project could be when learning about the medieval times for middle school grade. I feel the students would get an understanding of what the symbols were placed on there for while learning about the medieval times as well as writing a paper that goes along with what they learned about the medieval times and presenting to the class their shield as well as they research.