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animal families/ categories |
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Science,Arts,English Language Arts,English Language Development |
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After a trip to the Alum Rock Park (or other presentation). Students will write an expository paragraph about one of the animal types they saw and the features and habitat of this animal. Students will also creat a diorama or picture depicting their animal in its habitat. Students will then share their knowledge with the class.... |
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Pop Art |
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Arts,history |
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4,5,6 |
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Students will learn about the culture behind Pop Art and why Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein created such art works. They will then choose (or the teacher will choose to teach one type only) art form and mimic it, using their own design.... |
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hitRECord collaboration |
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Arts,photo/video |
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11,12 |
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This project is an exploration into video for photography students. As technology has developed, DSLR cameras are now including the option for video capture. Although many of the principles we learned in photography are applicable, creating a film is a more involved process where one must be aware of audio, narrative and time. This lesson also works to teach students to work collaboratively and promotes the idea that a joint effort can have more impact then one. ... |
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Geometry Media presentations |
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Mathematics,Arts,English Language Arts,technology |
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6 |
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The students work in teams to create a multimedia project to demonstrate their understanding of geometric concepts. This project can be the application of angles or the volume or a sphere or data sets. The students must complete an indivdual essay to submit at the conclusion of the project but the majority of the work is as a small team collecting and cataloging data and putting it into a presentation of their creation.... |
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Video on Poverty |
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Arts |
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11,12 |
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This piece was a global collaboration with photos sent by students from all over the world to help my student create her film on the effect of poverty on women throughout the world.... |
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Digital Recording |
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Arts,Band, Orchestra, Jazz |
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7,8,9,10,11,12 |
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Students use online based software (charms recorder), shareware (audacity), computer software (sound forge, garage band, etc) windows recorder, smart phones, ipads, or digital recording devices to record selected excersises or musical exerpts. Students upload recoding assignments online in their assignment forder on SchoolLoop. Students can choose which software, hardware, or file format (mp3, wav, wma, mp4 or other audio format) to use.... |
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Biomes and a voki video |
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Science,Arts,English Language Arts |
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2,3 |
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The students will research one biome (either ocean, rainforest, desert, or forest). They will fill out a fact sheet that they will later use to create a paragraph. Then, they will use voki.com to create an avatar and video about their biome. Lastly, the students will do an art project based on their biome and the animals that live in it.... |
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designing the negative to create the positive |
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Arts,3D Design |
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10,11,12 |
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The teacher will demonstrate examples of mold making techniques in the design industry. Students will become familiar with how commercial design evolves from computer graphics to model making, and then to a finished product (autos, cell phones, household appliances, etc…) Industrial design examples will include casting techniques that utilize lost foam, lost wax, and direct pour casting. Discussion will include student thoughts of other objects that utilize mold making process and casting techniques.
The teacher will provide examples of sculpture construction that incorporates mold making techniques and casting as a viable form of the art making process. Student will design their own sculpture or industrial model based on a mold building technique of making a mold design in the negative that will result in a positive design after it is cast in plaster.
The teacher will explain the exothermic reaction that takes place when the ingredients of plaster are mixed with w... |
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Title: |
Midnight Ride Translation |
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Arts,English Language Arts,History-Social Science |
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5 |
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Students listen to a recitation of The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, then take a stanza from the poem, rewrite it into 5th grade language, illustrate both the original and translated versions. Students then do a round-robin oral reading of both the original and translated versions.... |
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Bartok's Allegro Barbaro |
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Arts,music- band |
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9,10,11,12 |
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Allegro Barbaro is a piano composition by Bela Bartok. Tom Wallace of the Arranger's Publishing Company has arragned it for concert band. This is an interactive lesson to teach the students about Bartok and the original composition.... |
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Title: |
Fraction Art |
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Mathematics,Arts |
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Grade: |
6 |
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The students will create art work to apply the operations to fractional units.... |
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Title: |
Primary and Secondary Colors |
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Arts |
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3 |
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Students will learn the primary colors and be able to mix them in order to get secondary colors... |
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