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Creating Visually Engaging Rubrics

Grade 6-8 9-12 Brief Description Students view photographs of migrant families during the Great Depression, try to interpret the photos to answer questions about the subject's life, and then write a cinquain poem based on their interpretations. Objectives Students willGain understanding of the personal struggles faced during the Great Depression Learn to interpret information from a visual medium (photograph) and express that knowledge in written form (poem).

Visual info. for words/dictionary/thesaurus

Self Portrait Icebreaker Art Activity

Free computer courses and tutorials from Home and Learn. We currently have Micorsoft Word, Excel spreadsheets, Visual Basic .NET programming for beginners, Beginners PHP, Web Design, and Javascript lessons.

This lesson format allows for 21st century skills to be applied to research projects. It adds the element of computer technology to a cooperative research activity. By using graphing/tables/illustrations it can appeal to visual learners, adding an element of creativity.

Great simulations and activities for difficult to visualize concepts

This is a great lesson plan to visualize adjetives.

he Museum of Musical Instruments proudly hosts The Guitar Is Art: Rhythms of Art & Design In The 20th Century . This exhibition was produced in collaboration with The Museum Of Modern Art, New York, and explores the historical and aesthetic relationship between traditional visual art and the guitar.

A lesson plan using a drawing program on the computer (or by hand!) for children to create their own endings to a story that is read to them...except for the ending!

Great ways to use problem solving and critical thinking skills in a creative way! - Stephanie Jones HS Art

Arts & Humanities --Language Arts --Literature --Visual Arts Educational Technology [facebookbadge] Brief Description Students use drawing software, such as Paint or AppleWorks, to draw, or write and draw, their own endings to a read-aloud story. Objectives Students will draw or write and draw a new ending to a story.

This is a great site talking about how to help students visualize and write about their own lives.

A great writing activity for kids 8 and older.

Writing is being pushed very hard at my school this year. This is a good article to read. Stacy Smith

It was exciting to find this site. I use so many visuals like venns and concept maps, comparison charts, and other great ideas.

Interactive Web 2.0 periodic table with dynamic layouts showing names, electrons, oxidation, trend visualization, orbitals, isotopes, search. Full descriptions.

I'll be passing this onto my daughter....fantastic!

Arts & Humanities --Language Arts --Dance, Music --Visual Arts Educational Technology Physical Education --Exercise/Movement Students will enjoy this lesson that exercises their bodies as well as their creativity. alpha-bod, alphabet, human alphabet, movement, creativity, imagination Arrange students into groups. (Four might be an ideal-sized group for this activity.)

Visual Arts Social Studies- Students engage in a mock trial to decide if a work of prospective public art is "art" and accepted for a city park. -Stephanie Jones