Final Products: Students created an art piece depicting significant images to represent the three individuals, along with a central image and the connecting adjective. Honors students also created transitional images connecting key figures and themselves. Some students also included quotes of inspiration from these individuals. Students created a website of all three individuals to explain the meaning behind their painting.
Essential Question: How Will I Transform the World?
Key Academic Skills & Content: European history including the renaissance, reformation, and enlightenment; collecting and organizing research; art skills including watercolor painting, ink drawing, and chalk pastel; explanatory writing; web design.
Students researched background information on their Renaissance figure and their modern inspiration. They organized their thinking into charts, triple venn diagrams, and other graphic organizers. Students practiced artistic skills with watercolors, acrylic paint, chalk pastel, ink, and pencils. Students used written skills through their explanations for their paintings, and they used technology for creating their website. Students worked on listening and speaking skills throughout the process.
Suggested Duration: 12 weeks
Created with the support of the California Department of Education California Career Pathways Trust
]]>Essential Question: How can we change our use of natural resources to make a positive impact?
Academic Skills & Content: Map making and interpretation, scientific research, creation and analysis of graphs, scientific drawings, identifying patterns in data, natural resource formation, distribution and uses of natural resources, rock cycle
Final Products: Endangered Element Infographic and Video Public Service Announcement
Suggested Duration: 8-10 Weeks
Created with the support of the California Department of Education California Career Pathways Trust
]]>Essential Question: How has immigration shaped America?
Final Product: Students created a website to publish their stories, provide community resources, and created an art piece that can be used to access each individual interview.
Key Academic Skills & Content: Students used literacy skills such as reading informational, narrative and poetic texts, conducting research, writing articles, and collaborating on art piece.
Suggested duration: 6 to 8 weeks.
Created with the support of the California Department of Education California Career Pathways Trust
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