Teacher: Andrea Bertman
Grade Level: 2nd
Title: Wordle a cityscape
Brief History and Background:
Many students have trouble expressing their ideas on their own and it is much better to brainstorm and bounce off ideas with other students. The teacher would have the students enter the room, sitting at their tables. Each table should have 1 large piece of paper on it, with however many pencils, markers, or crayons. The teacher will introduce the word CITYSCAPE to the students. After discussing what a cityscape is, the students must brainstorm different words that would describe a cityscape. (buildings, cars, street, sidewalk, people, cabs....etc.) Then the students must create a wordle using the words they brainstormed!
Standards:
9.2.8.A- Explain the historical, cultural, and social context of an individual work in the arts.
9.2.8.C- Relate works in the arts to varying styles and genre and to the periods in which they were created.
9.3.8.B- Analyze and interpret specific characteristics of works in the arts within each art form
Goal: To create a cityscape using words to describe a city and it’s surroundings
Objectives:
- Students will be able to discuss their ideas and brainstorm words describing a cityscape.
- Students will create a cityscape from the words they came up with
- Students will be able to compare a cityscape to a landscape and seascape.
Resource Materials/Visual Aides:
Images of cityscapes, computer
Supplies/Materials:
24‘x30’ white paper, crayons, pencils, markers, 18‘x24’ white paper to draw a cityscape
Teacher Preparation:
The teacher will provide the cityscape images with his/her own examples of the project.
Teaching
Introduction: Students will enter the room, sitting at their tables. The teacher will then introduce what a cityscape is the the students and show the examples on the board.
Directions:The teacher would have the students enter the room, sitting at their tables. Each table should have 1 large piece of paper on it, with however many pencils, markers, or crayons. The teacher will introduce the word CITYSCAPE to the students. After discussing what a cityscape is, the students must brainstorm different words that would describe a cityscape. (buildings, cars, street, sidewalk, people, cabs....etc.) Then the students must create a wordle using the words they brainstormed!
Critique/Evaluation/Assessment: Once the project is finished, each student will put their piece on the board and have a class discussion about the project, stating what they liked about theirs or another students and why.
Time Budget: 3 Weeks
Vocabulary: Cityscape, buildings, wordle, brainstorm, contrats, depth
Credit:
Will Richardson. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts
http://www.wordle.net
This is my wordle for chapter 4! Can you guess what I am talking about? 