Technology

and Fine Arts

Urbana Fine Arts Team 2-24-12

Home:
A website called Learning Through the Arts (below) has a huge library of ideas for both content- area/Fine Arts integration and Fine Arts instruction. http://resources.curriculum.org/arts/symmetry.shtml

Underground Railroad:
An integrated lesson plan can be found at:http://www.safepassageohio.org/resources/Lesson3.pdf It is written for students in grades 6-9, but several of the lessons could be adapted.

Visual Arts:
The work of Jacob Lawrence can be found in the Harriet and the Promised Land collection at http://www.jacobandgwenlawrence.org/artandlife04.html. In several of the works, the North Star is depicted.

Music:
Follow the Drinking Gourd
http://ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden/php/music/Follow.mp3

McGuinn's Folk Den: Prior to forming The Byrds, Roger McGuinn performed folk music. In1995, McGuinn recorded a series of traditional folk songs and made them available for free download from his website, Folk Den - http://folkden.com.

Steal Away This Underground Railroad site has music embedded in the interactive journey. One of the songs is the spiritual Steal Away. http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/multimedia/interactive/the- underground-railroad/?ar_a=1

Owen Sound's Black History A selection of "slave songs" or spirituals, this site has the lyrics and story behind the lyrics to 7 spirituals http://www.osblackhistory.com/songs.php

Drama:
A dramatic reading, Moses Leads Her People to Freedom can be found at: http://books.google.com/books?id=obl5qsFTjkIC&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=dramatic+readin g+underground+railroad&source=bl&ots=ZWNFMBTI- i&sig=L2VZP_Z8gLOiWEQLgSlOhBSYj3Y&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vqJCT9PFIOXE0QG9gsTzBw&ved=0 CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=dramatic%20reading%20underground%20railroad&f=false Moses Leads her People to Freedom is the story of Harriet Tubman. There is reference to the Drinking Gourd, used to guide the fugitive slaves north.

Symmetry

Visual Arts:
The Assumption of the VirginBergognone (Ambrogio di Stefano da Fossano) (Italian, Milanese, ca. 14531523) An interactive website shows the students the sections of the work that are symmetrical: http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=688&title Matchbook Art These images can be viewed right-side-up or upside-down. http://www.ambigram.com/matchbox

The Upside Downs of Gustave Verbeek This series of comics, when turned upside down, are a completely different image.http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/verbeek/jbverbeek.htm

Digital Photography
Symmetry in Faces Lesson-Use digital cameras and photo editing software to show how human faces are ALMOST symmetrical, but not exactly! An interactive example can be found at http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/jbphotosym.htm

Symmetry in Nature:
The butterfly website shows lots of examples of symmetry in butterflies: http://butterflywebsite.com/gallery/index.cfm

Insects:

"To get started we fold our large drawing paper in half and use a black oil pastel to draw HALF of our bug's body. We draw the body parts and add other things like legs, wings, antennae, patterns and designs to create our own unique bugs. We FOLD the paper closed and rub all over our design. This will transfer the oil pastel using the heat of our hands to the other side of the paper and give us perfect vertical symmetry. Now we go over those light lines with our black oil pastel to make it complete." http://laughpaintcreate.blogspot.com/

Music: Symmetry: Im Beside Myself

"Songs in the Key of Art" is a collection of songs about art and artists written and performed by Greg Percy, an art teacher and musician. http://songsinthekeyofart.com/

Dance:

Students learn symmetry through dance in this video: http://resources.curriculum.org/arts/symmetry.shtml

Technology Tools:
Animoto-
http://animoto.com upload digital images. The program arranges them into a template you select and creates a video. Music can be uploaded or the site has free music. As an educator, you can sign up for a Plus subscription for free. Go to http://help.animoto.com/entries/20239847-getting-started-with- animoto-for-education to get information on class/student accounts.

Glogster-
http://glogster.com digital scrapbooking that will allow you to use sound, images, video, text, or graphics on an interactive poster. You can record your own video/audio from the site.

Voicethread-

http://voicethread.com collaborative tool that allows you to upload powerpoints, images, PDFs, video and then allows participants to comment on the content. Each participant can have his own identity.

Google Earth-

can be downloaded free. Text, images, video can be embedded in placemarks on the maps. Stop-motion Video: Video is created in iMovie by importing a sequence of still images with small movements, and changing the duration of the still in iMovie to .2 seconds.

Proscopes-

digital microscopes that will allow you to magnify 50x or 200x. The Proscope will take images or video.

Resources:

For Art Teachers:

Songs in the Key of Art-a collection of fun songs to teach kids about art and artists http://www.songsinthekeyofart.com/ Artsonia-an online gallery for student work http://www.artsonia.com Art Education 2.0-a collaborative space for "artists around the globe"-you request membership to the community http://arted20.ning.com/ The Art Teacher's Guide to the Internet-ideas, tools, and resources for teaching art and design in a post-digital age http://artjunction.org/blog/?p=231 Using Technology in the Elementary Art Classroom-10 ideas for how to integrate technology into art lessons http://voices.yahoo.com/using-technology-elementary-art-classroom-6257142.html

 iPod/iPad Apps: Artists Hall Galaxart LE SimpleDraw MoMA\Draw for iPad Draw it! Adobe Ideas 1.0

For Music Teachers:

JamStudio-tool for composing online (requires a subscription to download songs) http://wwwjamstudio.com Study Jams-"jams" and activities to teach concepts in math and science http://studyjams.scholastic.com/ Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids' Site-games, lesson plans, listening activities, teacher resources http://www.dsokids.com/ Rock Our World - An International Collaboration-connects students and teachers to collaborate in composing original music, making movies, and meeting each other in live video chatshttp://www.rockourworld.org/ Music Tech Teacher-lessons and projects that involve music and technology http://www.musictechteacher.com/lessons001.htm Music Education Resource Links (MERL) http://www.soundpiper.com/cpiper/merlmenu.htm Audacity-audio editing software (free download) http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/beta_mac iPod/iPad Apps: Piano Free with Songs Virtuoso Piano iSequence Lite (free on iPod/iPhone) EasyBeats LE (free on iPod/iPhone) Music Studio Lite Studio.M (iPod/iPad)

Drama:
iPad/iPod App Puppet Pals