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Character Diary Entry (3+)
Students better explain a character after examining their traits as well as trying to write a diary entry from their perspective.
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Perceptions
Students gain a better understanding of perceptions and how different points of view about the same set of events leads to conflict.
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Playground Modeling
Students build a model of their school playground. They view models from the classroom (such as a globe, doll house, or cars). Students share observations about the models. They use a paper mat to represent the playground and use...
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Taking a Stand
Students make connections with cultures (their own and others'), their identity, heritage, traditions, and symbols and examine the richness that diversity brings to communities.
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When the Giant Came to Town....
Pupils discuss various techniques artists have to show distance. They view examples, and discuss overlapping. Students create art work based on things in a city. Pupils tell about their artwork in casual style conversation while working....
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On the Surface of Things
Students create a Claris slide shows from pictures they have taken of items close-up in nature after studying the works of M.C. Escher and Georgia O'Keefe. Slide shows includes captions for clues to the identity of their nature picture.
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Looking through the Sands of Time: 80's Decade
Students view the comic "Time sliders" from the Celebrate the Stamp Unit from the 1980's. They discuss what the comic magazine contains. Students listen to a speaker from the post office discuss how stamps are selected. They use...
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TE Activity: Tears in Rain
Students examine photographs before writing captions for them. They develop visual literacy as they see how photographs are manipulated to show the effects of acid rain. They rewrite the photo captions after a class discussion.
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Sketching Perspectives
Students list perspective types, identify views, list uses for perspectives and correctly define terms associated with perspectives.
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Exploring Arrangements of 2, 3, 4, and 5 Cubes
Students construct models of various tricubes, tetracubes, and pentacubes that are possible, classify n-cubes into different groupings, and draw these figures on isometric dot paper giving true perspective to what they visualize.
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Perspectives
Seventh graders describe an event, a situation, etc. through the eyes of two people or two inanimate objects.
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Lesson 10: History of Illinois 1700's Dual Timeline
Students create a journal that includes historic events that occurred in Illinois in the 1700's that features entries on the same topics from different perspectives.
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Do You See What I See?
Students observe and describe different objects seen under a microscope and compare the individual perspectives of what was seen.
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Exploring the Deep: Creating Space and Distance
Students explore perspective and color techniques to create the illusion of three-dimensional space in two-dimensional works. They create three-dimensional landscapes.
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Art Rageous
Eighth graders research and investigate the following topics: color, light, perspective, composition, and artists' styles and lives. A class discussion of the different topics follows.