Public Art In The Bronx...Lesson Plans art Activity lesson Plan, Related Childrens Literature, CrossCurriculum Make a tile to show your family history, places and events in your life. http://bronxart.lehman.cuny.edu/pa/lesson.htm
Extractions: Ideas for Teachers was designed by Lehman College Art Gallery education staff for major public art sites. These sites were chosen for their educational potential and appropriateness for children in grades K-8. Ideas for Teachers is focused for classroom teachers to visit the art with their classes, develop questions and discuss what they see with students, and help students create artwork back in the classroom. Sample art activities, that come naturally from the core ideas expressed in the work, are described and use readily available materials. Suggestions for extending the learning and integrating it into content areas, writing and math skills and critical thinking are natural outcomes, making it easy for teachers to try new ideas that are based on tried and true methods. Care was taken to fulfill the National Standards for Visual Arts Education and the New York State Learning Standards for the Arts and are noted with each set of ideas. Grades Art Activity
United States History Lesson Plans United States history lesson plans by George Cassutto Offers a great number of Virginia history/Language Arts-American Revolution- Students will become http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/history/us_history/
Extractions: Curriculum Lesson Plans Organizers Rubrics ... "A Practical Experiment In Colonization" - The purpose of this activity is to provide an opportunity for American History students to gain practical experience in the basic types of challenges that may exist in the establishment of any early colony. A Review of American History - The purpose of this lesson is to review the importance historical events and time periods of United States history from discovery to the present. Through the use of art, crafts, drama, music, and dance, students can acquire a better understanding of the important contributions of individuals as well as cultural groups, and their impact on U.S. history. A Study of the PortolaExpedition: 1769 - During the first week, students will take on the identity of a personon the Portola expedition. Each day the students will be requiredto keep a journal for their character. For the second week,the students will, as a class, devise a list of questions for each character(the teacher may help in this to get things going). American Experience Abroad: An Interview - Young people rarely realize how much other nations impact the United States. With foreign trade being so controversial, students need an opportunity to examine a broad spectrum of information about our complex relationships with overseas friends and foes.
African Art Lesson Plans Elementary art lessons for creating masks, shields and Kente placemats, plus links to information on ancient Africa. http://members.aol.com/TWard64340/Africa.htm
Extractions: Ancient Africa LESSON PLANS FOR MASKS SHIELDS AND "KENTE" PLACEMATS plus Ancient Africa Links These elementary art lessons can be utilized in studies of art history. Students can learn about the various tribal masks of Africa and the ceremonies in which they were used. Purpose Students gain a greater perspective of other traditions and beliefs. They gain experience in exploring several media. Objectives 1. Students cooperate with each other. 2. Students learn to manipulate a variety of media. 3. Students explore traditions of African cultures. 4. Students increase creativity by making something new and different. 5. Students' feelings of self-worth will increase. Resources / Materials PICTURES OF AFRICAN MASKS, FACE PATTERNS, POSTERBOARD OR OTHER HARD PAPER, PAINT, BEADS, BEANS, VARIOUS UNCOOKED PASTA, FEATHERS, RAFFIA, YARN AND ANY OTHER ITEMS YOU MAY FIND APPROPRIATE Activities and Procedures 1. View and discuss a presentation of ancient African art. 2. Explore African mask-making by viewing pictures. 3.Create a preliminary drawing of mask.
Time For Time - Telling Time Features interactive games, quizzes, animated time zones, class clock and the history of telling time. Includes lesson plans and createyour own worksheets for teachers. http://www.time-for-time.com
Extractions: Selected Review Lucy's grandfather is coming to pick her up from school today, so she decides to make him a special art project during free time. While all of the other children are painting on easels Lucy is looking around for things to put into her' collage. By the end of the day Lucy has sand for a path; twigs for a tree; hair for her dog, and many other interesting textures. . . Other Reviews Featured Coloring Sections
Foreign Language Lesson Plans And Resources For Teachers 600 mini lesson plans for foreign languages. This site contains links to nearly 600 Includes Spanish literature, arts, music, people, history, foods, http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslsp.html
Extractions: Bonjour. The site, for students and teachers of French, offers a host of activities and resources. Casa de Joanna: Spanish Activities and Casa de Joanna: French Activities On-and off-line activities for middle and high school Spanish and French classes. Also included are lesson plans and printable worksheets. C.B. Putnam's Home Page Foreign Language Teaching on the Internet: Resources with Teaching Activities. Teaching activities and materials for French, German, Italian and Spanish classes. Cooperative Learning in Modern Languages. Pete Jones, Head of Modern Languages at the Pine Ridge Secondary School in Ontario (Canada), presents lessons useful for creating a student-centered language class. Print them out. Some will give you instant lesson plans for your next day's class. Several of the activities are available for languages other than French. Decouvrons le Canada. Pete Jones and his team of teachers has brought together close to 900 links to Canada, all in French. The site also features scavenger hunts for students based on ite various Web pages. Lesson plans and online activities for elementary, middle and high school levels. Additional resources are also included.
British Columbia Social Studies Teachers Association Offers links to valuable lesson plans, research links and professional information to teachers interested in socials, history, geography, and comparative civilizations. http://www.bctf.bc.ca/psas/BCSSTA/
Extractions: Begbie Contest registration deadline for this year's contest is March 14, 2005. The actual contest will take place on Tuesday, April 12, 2005. An additional prize of $500.00 is a new feature of the contest this year. In total, there will now be four $500.00 prizes. The Contest is in both French and English. Posters are available on request. Contact information is as follows: A professional development opportunity. The 2005 Study Tour facilitates selected teachers to gain a better understanding of the cultural and historical background of China during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945). Participants will meet survivors and historians. They will also visit museums and historical sites in the cities of Beijing, Nanjing, YiWu and
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TwHP Lesson Plans--Topic Index Teaching with Historic Places logoLesson Plan IndexTopic art Asian American history Aviation Building Styles and Methods Civil Rights Movement http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/topic.htm
Extractions: Teaching with Historic Places has developed more than 115 classroom-ready lesson plans that together cover major themes of American history. All of them are now available on the Web. For more information on our lessons or our program, contact TwHP ; you can also view the entire collection according to location time period U.S. History Standards , and Social Studies Standards African American History African American History An American Success Story: The Pope House of Raleigh, NC (124) Meet Dr. Manassa T. Pope, an African-American doctor and entrepreneur in the early 20th century, and learn about his efforts to gain civil rights well before the modern Civil Rights Movement. Brown v. Board: Five Communities That Changed America (121) Learn about the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. (Monroe Elementary School [now Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site] is a unit of the National Park Service/Robert Russa Moton High School, Sumner and Monroe Elementary Schools, Howard High School, and John Philip Sousa Middle School are National Historic Landmarks.)
TeachersFirst US History Lessons history lesson plans from the Social Studies School Service (commercial site) Using selections from literature and the arts, students discover the http://www.teachersfirst.com/ushistory/lesn-ushist.htm
Extractions: window.document.form1.pagename.value = window.document.location; U.S. History Lessons Updated - February 14, 2002 Today in American History Grades 4-12 - The Library of Congress offers a daily glimpse of what happened on any given date in American history. For those who plan ahead, the listings for any day of the year are available. Text, images, and other add-ons vary by day. Grades 5-12 - A very flexible, intriguing unit that allows students to define and trace the evolution of the "American Dream." In groups of four, students each take a different role (photographer, politician, poet, etc.) and research the American Dream from that angle (finding pictures, political events, the "soul" of the Dream, etc.). The unit has a teacher’s page, a student’s page, and a resource page to outline the lesson. On the teacher’s page, you will find many suggestions for customizing the lesson, such as restricting the scope to one particular decade or a certain theme. Conservation at a Crossroads: The Hetch Hetchy Controversy Grades 9-12 - This unit is based on the debate over damming the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, which helped mark the evolution of the conservation movement. The unit has two parts: the first details conservation through the rationales of various historical figures, and the second outlines the case study of Hetch Hetchy. The format of the second part includes a mock hearing where students present their researched ideas. In the course of the unit, students will also compare historical ideas of conservation with current ones.
Language Arts Lesson Plans And Resources Good site listing many K12 language arts lesson plans. Library in the Sky A lesson plan integrating baseball, African American history, and poetry. http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edeng.htm
Extractions: Language Arts Lesson Plans and Resources This page contains links to lesson plans and resources for teaching reading, spelling, writing, journalism, communication, debate, and drama. Resources and lesson plans for children's and adolescent literature have been relocated to separate sites, but are still accessible from the site index. Click on one of the topics below to locate the information you need. All links on this page were checked and updated 10-7-04.
Melissa's Myriad: Art Education Page Information on disciplinebased art education plus K-12 lesson plans, FAQs and links. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8020/arted.html
Extractions: Art Education ... Who is Melissa, Anyway? Discipline Based Art Education Discipline Based Art Education (commonly called DBAE) is an art education method that goes beyond painting a pretty picture. DBAE promotes higher level thinking skills, original problem solving skills, cultural and global awareness, verbal and non-verbal communication, and other skills that will help students throughout their lives. These goals are accomplished by teaching art history, criticism and aesthetics as well as production. For an example we will use a lesson on making clay pots using the coil method. That lesson provides the teacher with the opportunity to help the students learn about proportion, technique, and how the shape of the pot causes different feelings in viewers (pots can be graceful, strong, awkward, etc.) While the students make the pots, they solve problems like, "Do I want my coils to make designs on the pot? Why or why not?", and, "How do I make my pot look delicate?" The students' pots can be can be related to pots made in other cultures, like the Greeks, the Aztecs, the Japanese, or others.
Study Guide Home Page This study guide serves as a supplement to the radio series, Countdown to Millennium An Oral history project. This resource for teachers includes lesson plans, background on oral history collection, instructions for video interviews and web page construction, and links to oral history archives. http://www.tcomschool.ohiou.edu/cdtm
Extractions: Resources for this study guide will be the Countdown To Millennium website at - www.frognet.net/countdown and the lesson plans on this site. In addition, if a classroom has access to a video camera or an audio tape recorder and a web design program (we used Front Page), then the class could build their own collection of local oral histories. See Video Taping Techniques and Web Design Notes for our instructions on how to create a video archive and individual web pages. ABOUT THE STUDY GUIDE This study guide has several sections. The first two pages, What Is Oral History? and Why Use Oral History? , give a background to the methodology of oral narratives and why they are important. There are examples from oral histories to illustrate the points made. They're a good background for teachers and students alike. Additional pages talk about how you can create an archive of local stories in the classroom. Once established, this database could be added to year after year and become a worthwhile resource for your students and for the community.
Education World ® Lesson Planning Center Included Five new lesson plans plus links to many more. Included Five mysterious lessons focused on language arts, history, and forensic science http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/
Mr. Horwitz's U.S.History Class An extensive directory of websites about American history in chronogical order. Also links to historical indexes, outlines and directories, lesson plans, and other educational resources. Created by Mr. Horwitz and his class at Roosevelt High School in Fresno, California. http://cvip.fresno.com/~jsh33/
Extractions: A picture of the Lincoln Memorial ( http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/linmem.html Classroom Activity Sheet: Art and Architecture in Ancient Greece Classroom Activity Sheet: Government in Ancient Greece Classroom Activity Sheet: Mythology in Ancient Greece Classroom Activity Sheet: Philosophy in Ancient Greece Print and Internet references on ancient Greece Classroom Activity Sheet: Sports in Ancient Greece Print and Internet references on ancient Greece Procedures Ask students what they know about ancient Greece. Have them brainstorm ideas, and write their suggestions on the board. To spark conversation, you may want to show them a picture of the Lincoln Memorial. If students are familiar with this structure, explain that it was built to honor Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. Ask students what this structure has to do with ancient Greece.
2005 Lesson Plans Click on any of the images below to view the entire lesson plan. Button art is an inexpensive, creative project that s easy to do with a group, http://www.dickblick.com/lessonplans/lessonplans/
Extractions: Welcome to DickBlick.com Login My Account Wishlist Order Status ... Order by Item # Order online or call (800)-828-4548 Contact Us Help Departments A ... Clearance We are always on the lookout for new lesson ideas. Here are some fresh projects for 2005! Click on any of the images below to view the entire lesson plan. see also ... Torn Paper Portraits EXAMPLE TITLE AND DESCRIPTION GRADES Crazy Quilt Texture Board Students will enjoy exploring the wide variety of textures they can create with acrylic modeling paste on a rigid surface. Torn Paper Portraits Students "paint" with torn paper using a limited number of values found in a grayscale image. Year "2100" Sock Dolls Students investigate dolls and games in history and cultures. This particular lesson challenges students to look into the future and reflect on the past. African Ceremonial Masks Studying the rich history of maskmaking in Africa is a perfect way for students to experience the relationship between the process of creating a piece of art, and appreciating the significance it carries. Classroom Chihuly This project gives students an opportunity to enjoy creating a random organic form with color and transparency similar to real glass.
COOL TEACHING LESSONS AND UNITS Mr. Donn s US history lesson plans Activities and World history lesson plans Language Arts lesson plans (literature, writing, poetry and library http://www.coollessons.org/coolunits.htm
Extractions: COOL TEACHING LESSONS AND UNITS ALONG WITH RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS Short Cuts: WEBQUEST UNITS RESEARCH MODULES ONLINE PROJECTS READY MADE UNITS ... STUDENT RESOURCES Some personal notes about this web page: It is designed as a resource for teachers K-12 who wish to find quality ready-made units and lessons for all subjects, or who wish to develop their own units. This page emphasizes engaged learning models such as WebQuests, Research Modules and Project-Based Learning, but links include other forms of lessons and tutorials. Included also are sites to help you build your own units as well as some examples of sources to help students do research. Some of these units depend on the ability of students to do interactive work with others using technology. However, even if you have one or no computer in your classroom, most of the units linked at this site can be of much help. They are great learning experiences not only because of technology, but because they also involve students in activities that challenge them to solve problems by doing quality research, analyzing information, synthesizing possibilities, making judgments and then creating interesting products in order to communicate their results. Technology can be used as tools in making these exciting learning experiences even deeper, richer and more motivating.
