Curriculum Speed Dating Mind Map

Teachers were tasked with taking one tool from the Institute and using it to generate curriculum ideas for their specific subject. Through a round of speed-dating they had to marry their tool and subject to another teachers in just three minutes. By the end of one round teachers had met with seven other teachers and developed seven new cross-disciplinary curriculum ideas. Teachers were asked to refine one of their ideas and write a lesson plan delineating the learning activity. Teachers then affixed their intention and lesson plans on to a large poster or ‘mind map’ and drew arrows between their intentions, tools, subjects and lessons.

Puppets in French Class

Puppets may be used in conjunction with a variety of texts.
eg. News casters for current events, intro to a text, or review of text
Presentations can be done in groups and may also be video taped.

Generate Ideas for a Project

1. Put students into pairs
2. Have each describe their ideas with as much detail as possible (shapes, forms, colors, figures, composition)
3. The “listener” will draw what the “speaker” is describing using their own interpretation.
4. The sketchbooks are then passed back to the original artist who will “see” their idea manifest visually.
5. Artists may use these raw sketches as jumping off points for their final pieces

IB Visual Arts: Self Generated Ideas

Show images and discuss several artists that deal with social justice issues. Have students create two works, one that compares or contrasts two different artists, and one that focuses on a social issue that they are passionate about.

Evolution/Voyage of the Beagle

Intro: Darwin
Fake Expert, Images, Writing Prompts
i.e. describe voyage, show/create/analyze images. Reflect on previous knowledge

Theory:
After conceptualization, create a mobile with words
Regurgitate theory with ‘quote puzzle’
Reflect on self-generated ideas for evolutionary applications

Mobile Circus

Create a wire circus using forms of insects and anthropomorphized automata.

Puppets and Art History

Students are given an artist and art work printed on transparency.
Bio of artist/info about artwork are researched in groups
Groups will decide on setting and collaborate to create it.
Puppet shows will be performed using music to explain art and bio.

For Reading Review:

-Students get a list of words. They make their own bingo board and decorate the outside with characters from the book.
-Each student picks a card from a bag, reads the word, reads the definition, puts the word in a sentence being sure to use the word in the correct context.
-First person to get bingo wins a piece of candy, homework pass, or 5 pts extra credit
-Clear boards and repeat.

Elements and Principles Speed Dating

Use the concept of speed dating to introduce students to Elements and Principles of Design. Make a collaborative drawing incorporating both E+P, then switch to create a new combination. Yay!

Art and Comics

Students select one artist from history and one contemporary artist. Students will research both artists and design a comic strip/conversation between two works of art. Must include a minimum of three important detail related to each work of art. Project may be done individually or as a class where conversations occur between each students’ chosen artist.

Hero's Voyage

Using the Odyssey or Jane Eyre as a template, have students write their personal history as a heroic journey. Students may encounter monsters/challenges, or benevolent forces, symbols or lessons. Students may also create a visual journey in the form of a short film that will tell their story without words.

Math and Art

Use images and artists to introduce lesson plan objectives and address math anxiety.
Have students share a memory from their personal history to describe or model a system of equation.

Mr. Potato Head

Draw face as a group
Each person makes caricatures from cut up images of each others work.