For our final project, we worked as a class to recreate the Mayan City of Copan. We used cardboard as the base of the structures, then them covered in Rice Krispies. I worked on the stelae with Tyler. We used cardboard as the base, then stacked Rice Krispies on top. We held the structures together with toothpicks and hot glue. Designs were then added to the stelae with colored gel. After we completed our stelae, we helped the others work on structures 9 and 10, and connecting them to the ball court.
I enjoyed this project and I thought it was such a creative idea. It was different than your usual final project such as a paper or an iMovie. I think if we had more time to work on the city, much more details could have been added. These include, painting the structures red, adding people, and including the rainforest around the city. It would have been awesome to continue to work on the city and then present it to other FYS classes, explaining the city and its structures.
