Project+Based+Learning

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[|Scientific Artfully Thinking]

[|See, Think and Wonder]

Project Based Lesson Plans:
[|Exploring Our Community] Integrate social studies, art, and language arts while promoting group work skills in a study of the local community. Add a school neighborhood walk or other off-school site experience in the local community to make this lesson more authentic. Art specialists can provide instruction in how to build a mural. [|What should a House Do?] This inquire-based unit focuses on a comparison of Native American shelters and the first permanent English dwellings in the American settlement. Classroom teachers and art specialists can work in tandem to present background information, source and display relevant artwork, and explore ways for students to show what they have learned by constructing models of different kinds of homes. [|Transportation and Mapping] Build on the previous lesson with a mural-focused experience. This lesson provides mural artwork to inspire students to think about transportation today and in the past. Integrating social studies, mathematics, literacy, and art, this web page provides ideas for a four- week project-based unit. [|Energy from Wind and Moving Water] This long-term project-based unit presents authentic explorations that include concrete, hands-on, and first-hand experiences. Art specialists can support student learning in many ways, such as by providing instruction in how to draw diagrams of various wind machines or assisting with materials and techniques as teams construct, test, and improve hovercrafts. [|Faith-Ringgold Story Pillows] Integrate reading, writing, and art with this project-based lesson that appeals to a variety of learning styles. Spatial/visual learners will be motivated by the colorful artwork of Faith Ringgold, while language-oriented learners will by inspired by the words and concepts presented in the picture book selections. Kinesthetic learners will be motivated by the tactile nature of the project while the patterns present in the artwork will capture the interest of logical /conceptual learners. Invite the classroom teacher to join in with book investigations and an author study.