Extra Credit #1- Art in the classroom
For one of my lessons I used art as a large portion. I do not have images of the student work because I had to turn them in with my lesson. The lesson was a social studies lesson. The topic was on Ancient Egypt. The students were having difficulties with the new vocabulary words. Their teacher would just make them copy the vocabulary words and look up the definition in the back of their text book. I could tell that this was extremely boring to them and they were not learning the words. In this 6th grade class, I decided to use art in my lesson. The students had the option to choose the vocabulary word that they wanted to do. The vocabulary word was typed on the top of their page. Below their was a space for them to illustrate what the vocabulary word meant and below they had to use that vocabulary word and write 3 to 6 sentences about it from a Pharaoh’s perspective. The students loved this lesson. They always have to do boring worksheets, and they truly enjoyed illustrating their vocabulary word. They were able to show what the word meant to them. It was interesting to see the different interpretations of the word the students had. The students shared their work with each other. By having the illustrations, the students were able to better remember what the words meant and it no longer was just text to help them remember.
For one of my lessons I used art as a large portion. I do not have images of the student work because I had to turn them in with my lesson. The lesson was a social studies lesson. The topic was on Ancient Egypt. The students were having difficulties with the new vocabulary words. Their teacher would just make them copy the vocabulary words and look up the definition in the back of their text book. I could tell that this was extremely boring to them and they were not learning the words. In this 6th grade class, I decided to use art in my lesson. The students had the option to choose the vocabulary word that they wanted to do. The vocabulary word was typed on the top of their page. Below their was a space for them to illustrate what the vocabulary word meant and below they had to use that vocabulary word and write 3 to 6 sentences about it from a Pharaoh’s perspective. The students loved this lesson. They always have to do boring worksheets, and they truly enjoyed illustrating their vocabulary word. They were able to show what the word meant to them. It was interesting to see the different interpretations of the word the students had. The students shared their work with each other. By having the illustrations, the students were able to better remember what the words meant and it no longer was just text to help them remember.
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