Golden Hill Elementary teachers used Fullerton Education Foundation funds to create an integrated writing, photography, and art project. Second-grade teachers Rene Howell and Teresa Carthew read “How to Catch a Monster,” by Adam Wallace, to their classes. The second graders imagined a monster which they described in writing and then drew. They made 3D model monsters out of everyday materials and practiced their photography skills by taking pictures of their sculptures.

They sent their monster pictures to the West Covina High School Ceramics department where the high school ceramics class made glazed sculptures of the monsters. The second graders took a field trip out to the high school to meet the students and their monsters. Back in the classroom, the second graders explored using an AI program by asking it to draw pictures of their monsters from their descriptions and comparing the AI-generated picture adds to their original drawings.