Da Vinci Gaget Drawings

In our study of Leonardo Da Vinci this week, we learned about how in his lifetime, Leonardo produced thousands of pages of notes, ideas and sketches of plants, animals, the human body, people, canals, contact lenses, bridges, parachutes, inventions, war machines and more. He was particularly interested in the way things worked. In class yesterday, 6th graders created sketches of 'gadgets' in the style of DaVinci. They carefully observed how the items (a pasta maker, cheese mill, hand mixer and clay press) operate, drew them and took notes (backwards or course) about how they work, the same way Da Vinci would:

Sketching (below), and using the window to write backwards (students wrote normally on the back of their paper, and then traced it backwards using the window as a light box- I am pretty sure Da Vinci did NOT use this method!):