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Art Across the Planet
Art Across the Planet
  • Unit Description
  • Objectives
  • Materials and Resources
  • Unit Lesson Plans
  • Relation to Standards
  • One Computer versus Many


  • Unit Description

        In this unit, students will create drawings of their own homes and those that they imagine might be found in a foreign country. Students will also conduct research on that particular foreign country using a variety of sources and exchange artwork and questions with another group of students in that foreign country.

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    Objectives

        Students will:

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    Materials and Resources

        In developing our lessons and activities, we made some assumptions about the hardware and software that would be available in the classroom for teachers who visit the LETSNet Website. We assume that teachers using our Internet-based lessons or activities have a computer with the necessary hardware components (mouse, keyboard, and monitor) as well as a World Wide Web browser. In the section below, we specify any "special" hardware or software requirements for a lesson or activity (in addition to those described above) and the level of Internet access required to do the activity.

    1. Special hardware requirements: none.
    2. Special software requirements: none.
    3. Internet access: Medium-speed (28,000 BPS via modem) or higher.
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    Unit Lesson Plans

    1. Lesson One: Imagining Homes and Environments. Students choose a foreign country and create paintings of what they think homes might look like based on basic data about environments present in the country.

    2. Lesson Two: Exploring Homes and Resources. Students use a variety of resources to search for images of and information about the exchange country's environments and housing.

    3. Lesson Three: Exchanging Art. Students create drawings of their own homes and exchange them with another classroom of students in the foreign exchange country.

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        We have drawn on the National Standards for Arts Education outlined by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations. These standards provide excellent guidelines for teachers on how to focus visual arts in their classrooms. Up to Contents

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    One Computer versus Many

        The plans for this unit are tailored to fit teaching situations where students have access to several computers with an Internet connection. To accommodate classrooms that do not have access to a computer lab with full Internet connections, students can work in research groups to explore Internet sites and conduct their research.

        If you have only one computer with Internet access, you may choose to do one of the following:

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