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Self-portrait. |
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Self-portraits can really reflect the way students feel about themselves and also give a teacher a good opportunity to learn about the students. The portraits can help build esteem by making the students more self-aware, and students will often discover new things about themselves. Self-portrait teaches students to make artwork more personal and helps them talk about themselves through art.
Students also feel more confident to write autobiography after they painted self-portrait.... |
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What Is Conceptual Art? |
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Visual Arts |
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9,10,11,12 |
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In the EGG THE ARTS SHOW: WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA? episode, artists and art historians explore what conceptual art means to them. In this lesson, students will explore conceptual art for themselves as they learn about its place in art history, study exemplary works, learn key concepts, and create their own definition of the movement. Finally, students create and exhibit conceptual art pieces.... |
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Introduction to Film Editing |
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Visual Arts |
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9,10,11,12 |
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Description: |
This lesson, inspired by PBS' film series, REEL NY, allows students to explore the art of film editing. In this lesson students are introduced to the role of a film editor and to two common film-editing techniques: continuity editing and montage (discontinuity) editing. By viewing video clips, students learn to identify and define these two editing styles and explore how and why these techniques are employed to tell a visual story. As a culminating activity, students gain hands-on experience with these techniques through an in-camera edit exercise.... |
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Title: |
Making Movie Storyboards |
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Visual Arts |
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3,4,5 |
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Description: |
Inspired by PBS' documentary film series, REEL NY, this lesson gives students the opportunity to explore the importance of images in telling a story in film. Students analyze movie clips and identify some visual cues that help them understand the story. Then they learn to identify close-up versus wide shots and think about how each is useful to visual storytelling. Using an interactive Web site, students learn the importance of shot sequence in conveying meaning. They then work collaboratively to storyboard a passage from a book they are reading and finally present their storyboards to an audience in the form of a PowerPoint slide show. At the screening of their PowerPoint “movies,” the visual storytellers field questions from the audience regarding their work.... |
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PAGES Brochure Design and Creation |
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Visual Arts,Career Technical Education,English Language Arts |
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10,11,12 |
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Description: |
This lesson will be a presentation of the PAGES application, specifically using the Classic Brochure. Students will be shown the steps to follow in order to create professional, informative brochures about specific health career options. They will use information already gathered and edited to design and produce brochures to be distributed at the O'Connor Hospital Career fair, to be held in May 2009. ... |
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Research of Health Careers with an Eye to Production |
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Visual Arts,Career Technical Education,English Language Arts |
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10,11,12 |
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Description: |
In this lesson, students will begin to research specialized professions in the health care fields, for example, speech pathology, radiology, and medical transcription. They will be searching for information on prerequisites for their particular career and the education needed, as well as creating a clear and consise description of the job itself. Students will research salary range for the profession and find a working practitioner from whom to gather quotes that will be later used to "sell" this career to others. ... |
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Take Another Look: One, Two, Look at Your Shoe |
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Mathematics,Music,Science,Visual Arts |
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3,4,5 |
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Description: |
This activity sets the stage for the entire Take Another Look curriculum by inviting students to take a new and different look at something which is very familiar to them: their shoes. By looking at, and then drawing, their shoes from different viewpoints, students will practice observation and gain an understanding of perspective.... |
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CDMSJ |
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Title: |
Roots of Rock |
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Visual Arts,music |
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8 |
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Students will:
Prepare a presentation about an American rock group or artist.
Explore musical styles represented in contemporary American music
Discuss the influences of popular artists on other musicians, society and themselves
Use music terminology to discuss contemporary American music
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Title: |
Songs of The Civil War |
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Visual Arts,Music |
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8 |
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Description: |
Students will:
Study the lyrics of songs from the Civil War to determine the perspective of the song.
Analyze and describe song forms
Discuss if/how music can change attitudes and opinions.
Listen to and sing songs from the Civil War Era
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Title: |
Line Drawings |
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Visual Arts |
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8 |
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Description: |
The objectives of this lesson are to have students look at objects in different ways and refine their use of line. Students will create a variety of line drawings of a chosen object using construction lines.... |
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Theme and Series |
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Visual Arts |
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8 |
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Description: |
Students will create a portfolio of self portraits over the course of the semster. This will include drawings, paintings, collage, silk screen and computer portraits.
Students will look at how portraiture has been used in various cultures and historical periods.
Students will examine how artists suck as Dorthea Lange have used portraits to make a social comment or protest social conditions.
Students will discuss how the media influences our concept of personal beauty.
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Tempo- How Fast Do You Go |
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Visual Arts,Dance |
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7 |
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Description: |
In this lesson, students will:
Investigate tempo with an emphasis on sensing time differences with their kinesthetic sense (the sense of body position and motion seated in the the muscular and nervous systems)
Warm up the body with quickly juxtaposed tempos to foster sensitivity to tempo variation
Create a dance study that juxtaposes two different tempos
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Title: |
Sensing Cultural Time |
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Visual Arts,Dance |
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7 |
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Description: |
This lesson investigates how different cultures or historical periods have interpreted time differently and how dance has been used to express those cultures.
In this lesson, students will:
Investigate different cultural examples of dances that last over extended periods of time
Participate in dance improvisations inspired by various environments with specific time based criteria.
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Duration Part 2: Can We Fly and Talking |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts |
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7 |
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Description: |
In this lesson students will:
Review the locomotor movements of hopping, jumping and leaping with an emphasis on the time spent in the air.
Will explore how tempo and duration interact with language
Do a small group improvisational dance utilizing set dance phrases with accompanying spoken sentences.
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Duration Part 1: Waste, Blow, Lose, or Fill Time |
| Subject: |
Visual Arts,Dance |
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7 |
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Description: |
In this lesson students will:
create a video to demonstrate the concept of duration
will experience different movement durations through simple gesture dances
create a gesture dance study with a partner that emphasizes duration and incorporates spatial choices to show the different gestures most effectively.
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