Field Trip Booklets

We had to create 2 field trip books with 8 interactive activities relating to the venues. And include a rationale for each field trip. My booklets were on my visit to the bank and my visit to the fire department. I choose these field trips because they are every city. The fire department could be visited to talk about community helpers or fire safety and the bank could also be used to talk about community helpers, producers/consumers, and money.

Paper Mache Madness

Paper Mache Ladybugs

5 Artists to Teach

Vincent Van Gogh

• born in Holland
• earlier paintings were of darker colors
• started using brighter colors after seeing Japanese art
• cut off his ear
• ran out of food buying paint
• did not sell many items when he was alive
• Famous works include: The Starry Night and Wheat field with Crows
• http://www.vangoghgallery.com/

Frida Kahlo

• born in Mexico
• survivor of polio
• at age 18, seriously injured in a bus accident
• paintings are mostly self-portraits and still life filled with Mexican colors
• Famous works include: The Two Fridas, Diego and I, Self-Portrait with Monkey, Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States, and The Accident
• http://www.fridakahlo.com/

Leonardo Da Vinci

• born in Italian town of Vinci
• lived during the Renaissance
• became famous for being a sculptor, a scientist, an inventor, an architect, a musician, and a mathematician
• paintings done in the Realist style
• Famous works include: Mona Lisa, Last Supper, Madonna and Child, The Virgin of the Rocks
• http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/
  
  

Claude Monet

• born in Paris
• parents did not want him to become an artist
• married: Camille, widowed, married: Alice
• famous before he died
• Famous works include: Morning Haze, Marine Near Etretat, and Lily Pond
• http://giverny.org/monet/welcome.htm

Pablo Picasso

• born in Spain
• father was an artist
• painted during a blue period (after the death of friend) and rose period (after he met a girl, also after the blue period)
• painted in many styles, but Cubism is the most important
• Famous works include: Guernica, Three Musicians, The Three Dancers, Self Portrait: Yo Picasso
• http://www.picasso.fr/anglais/

10 Creative Field Trip Experiences

Georgia Aquarium

Contact Information:

225 Baker Street

Atlanta, GA 30313

(404) 581-4000

http://www.georgiaaquarium.org/

Admission Cost: $20/student

Chaperone Ratio: 1 chaperone/every 5 students

Lunch Facility: Students will eat lunch at Centennial Olympic Park or a park on the way back to the school.

Rationale: Students can study marine life and their habitats.

The Fox Theater

Contact Information:

600 Peachtree Street NE

Atlanta, GA 30308

(404) 881-2100

http://www.foxtheatre.org/

Admission Cost: It depends on the show.

Chaperone Ratio: 1 chaperone/5 students

Lunch Facility: Students will be eating lunch at the park

Rationale: The Fox has special kinds of shows, like Junie B. Jones, where students can see one of the books they have read come to life.

Fernbank

Contact Information:

156 Heaton Park Drive NE

Atlanta, GA 30307

(678) 874-7102

http://www.fernbank.edu/

Admission Cost: $9/person

Chaperone Ratio: 1 adult/5 students

Lunch Facility: Students will eat lunch outside on the grassy area.

Rationale: Students can learn about dinosaurs, fossils, history, etc.

High Museum of Art

Contact Information:

1280 Peachtree Street NE

Atlanta, GA 30309

(404) 733-4468

http://www.high.org/

Admission Cost: $10/student

Chaperone Ratio: 1 chaperone/5 students

Lunch Facility: Students will eat lunch at Centennial Park.

Rationale: Students will learn to appreciate their artwork by seeing other artworks that are displayed in the museum that are very simple.

Stone Mountain

Contact Information:

U.S. Highway 78 East, Exit 8

Stone Mountain, GA 30087

(770) 498-5690 OR 1-800-401-2407

http://www.stonemountainpark.com/

Admission Cost: $15/student

Chaperone Ratio: 1 chaperone/5 students

Lunch Facility: Students will eat lunch at the site.

Rationale: Students will learn about the history of the country and state.

World of Coca-Cola

Contact Information:

121 Baker Street

Atlanta, GA 30313

(404) 676-0676

http://www.worldofcoca-cola.com/

Admission Cost: $8/person

Chaperone Ratio: 1 chaperone/5 students

Lunch Facility: Students will outside of the World of Coca-Cola.

Rationale: Students can learn about producers and consumers, as well as about the history of Atlanta and Georgia.

Post Office

Contact Information:

1-800-ASK-USPS

http://www.usps.com/

Admission Cost: free

Chaperone Ratio: 1 teacher/class

Lunch Facility: Students can eat lunch at school.

Rationale: Students can learn about community workers: mail carriers, about how mail gets from one place to another and what goes on an envelope.

Fire Department

Contact Information:

Walton County Fire Department

1760 Bold Springs Road NW

Monroe, GA 30655

(770) 267-1358

http://www.firedepartments.net/Georgia/Monroe/WaltonCountyFireDepartment.html

Admission Cost: free

Chaperone Ratio: 1 chaperone/5 students

Lunch Facility: Students can eat lunch at school.

Rationale: Students can learn about community workers: fire fighters and the job that they do. They can also learn about fire safety rules and procedures, how to prevent fires and what to do in the case of a fire.

Center for Puppetry Arts

Contact Information:

1404 Spring Street, NW at 18th

Atlanta, GA 30309-2820

(404) 873-3391 (Ticket Sales) (404) 873-3089 (Administrative)

http://www.puppet.org/

Admission Cost: $6.50/student for performance only, $12.50 for performance, making a puppet and a visit to the museum

Chaperone Ratio: 1 chaperone/5 students

Lunch Facility: Students can eat at the lunchroom on site.

Rationale: Puppetry and Art. Programs meet QCC and GPS standards.

Zoo Atlanta

Contact Information:

800 Cherokee Avenue SE

Atlanta, GA 30315

(404) 624-9453

http://www.zooatlanta.org/home.htm

Admission Cost: $8/student for zoo admission only

Chaperone Ratio: 1 chaperone/10 students (chaperones and bus drivers admitted free)

Lunch Facility: Students will eat at Grant Park.

Rationale: Students will learn about animals and their habitat.

Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta

Contact Information:

275 Centennial Olympic Park Drive NW

Atlanta, GA 30313-1827

(404) 659-5437

http://www.imagineit-cma.org/home.asp

Admission Cost: $6.50/student (tax-exempt rate) & chaperones free

Chaperone Ratio: 1 chaperone/5 students

Lunch Facility: Students can eat lunch at the Town Square Area at the museum.

Rationale: The exhibits change over time, so students can see exhibits about science, Alice in Wonderland, music, math, birds, etc.

20 Lesson Ideas

1. Fractions: Draw a pizza on a poster board and draw another one with the sections cut out. Use the pieces to demonstrate parts and wholes of the fraction.
2. History: make castles of recyclable materials that includes the different components of a real castle. Students can get an idea of how structures were made up then and how they are different from today's houses.
3. Teach children the Microsoft Paint program as a way of incorporating technology into the classroom.
4. Life Cycle of a Plant: Create a story board for each step from seedling to a fully developed flower. This can help with talking about flowers and sequencing of events.
5. Puppetry: We can use puppets to recreate story and events. Students can also describe their reaction to certain stories and/or events through the use of puppets.
6. Dioramas: dioramas can be used in any content area and would especially great in science or social studies lesson. It would help to reinforce what a student has learned.
7. Time: using Eric Carle's Grouchy Ladybug students can construct a ladybug clock to learn time.
8. Parts of a Flower:Use clay to create each part of the flower such as roots, stem, leaves and petals. You could separate each part and talk about them individually and put them back together to talk about how they contribute to the development of the flower.
9. Famous Artists: Create a game with pictures of famous artworks and students have to match the artwork to the artist that created it. Students will learn about different famous artists and their artworks.
10. Symmetry: Fold construction paper in half and cut different objects. Shows students that symmetrical means that the items are alike on both sides.
11. Shapes: form clay into different basic and geometric shapes. Students get an interactive view of how a square has four sides and four corners, a triangle has three sides, etc.
12. Senses: Using a paper plate students make a face using magazine clips for each of their 5 senses such as eyes, a nose, a mouth, etc.
13. Color: Students can create different pictures using warm and cool colors to demonstrate a particular feeling or mood. Students will learn what feeling each color gives off.
14. Mixed Media: When creating pictures, do not limit students to the supplies they can use. When given the opportunity, students will appreciate the opportunity to use different medias to create.
15. Take field trips that focus on aspects of arts and artist to expose students to different cultures and intelligences.
16. Create a section of your bulletin board that focuses on a particular artist or artwork and also the student's work. Students will learn to appreciate their artwork more when you post them next to famous works, show them that theirs is just as important.
17. Crayons and watercolors: show children how they can use crayon and water color to create pictures and secret messages.
18. Careers: when talking about careers, talk about artists and the differences between folk and fine artist. This will allow children who are visually/spatially intelligent realize that they can make a career out of something that they love to do.
19. Self-portraits: Have students to create self-portraits and write words that describe themselves. This is a good opener at the beginning of the year. It's a good way to see how children create and it allows the teacher and students to get to know the student.
20. Paper-mache: Paper mache can be used to make several sturdy items around the room.

20 Educational Art Websites

1. The Renaissance Connection: http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/
2. Destination Modern Art: http://www.moma.org/destination/
3. The Artist's Toolkit: http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/
4. My Imaginary City: http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/city/
5. Mystery of the Poison-Dart Frog: http://www.ncmoa.org/costarica/
6. History of Pop-up and Movable Books: http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/popup2/default.htm
7. Earth as Art: http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.htm
8. Collage Machine: http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/collagemachine.htm
9. Ancient Arcade(mythological figures): http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/interactive/arcade.htm
10. How can a place inspire an artist?: http://www.lacma.org/Places/index.htm
11. What is a Print?: http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/whatisaprint/flash.html
12. Art Safari: http://www.moma.org/momalearning/artsafari/index.html
13. Art Detective: The Case of Grandpa's Painting: http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/
14. Leonardo da Vinci: http://www.leonardo.net/gallery.html#start
15. Crayola: http://crayola.com/
16. Games that make you think: http://www.zoopz.com/index.html
17. Learn to draw in 3-D: http://www.draw3d.com/
18. A Lifetime of Color: http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/
19. Artist Index: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/
20. Biographies of Famous Artist: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0882839.html
21. Online Art Activities for Kids: http://princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/artgames.html

10 Best Places to Purchase Art Supplies

1. The School Box: http://schoolbox.com/
2. The Crayola Store: http://www.crayolastore.com/index.asp
3. Wal-Mart: http://www.walmart.com/
4. Hobby Lobby: http://www.hobbylobby.com/
5. Discount School Supply: http://www.discountschoolsupply.com/
6. Michaels: http://www.michaels.com/art/online/home
7. Blick Art Materials: http://www.dickblick.com/
8. Mister Art: http://www.misterart.com/
9. Rex Art: http://www.rexart.com/
10. Sax Arts and Crafts: http://www.saxarts.com/

Puppet Parade

We had to create puppets for puppet parade. We choose to do the nursery rhyme "The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly." For each of the animals that the old lady swallowed, we made a puppet for it. The old lady was made out a regular box, so that we could show the action of her actually swallowing the objects. This would be a great rhyme to use with sequencing.

Power Point story

We had to do a Power Point story. We had to include 2 drawings created in Microsoft Paint and a digital photo. My story was about me and how I enjoy sunny days and my family.

Team Teaching: Math

"Telling Time With the Grouchy Ladybug"

Grade: 1st

Subject: Math

Class Time: 30 minutes

Concepts: Students will apply concepts of coloring ability and their ability to tell time.

Objectives: The students will demonstrate an understanding of using clocks to tell time by using manipulatives they created with 100% accuracy. (QCC 1st grade standard 3) The students will use a variety of art materials and techniques to model, construct, and compose original artworks.

Motivation: Show students The Grouchy Ladybug book. Tell them it will help them with telling time. Ask students what their favorite time of day is.

Vocabulary: Clock, hands, arrow, o'clock, time, hour, clockwise, counter-clockwise

Instructional Strategies:

Show the large clock and how its hand moves.

Ask students to state reasons why we need clocks.

Today, we will learn to tell time with the grouchy ladybug and fun clocks. Before we can do that, we need to discuss some key words that may be unclear or have more than one meaning so that when we use them to tell time, we all know how to interpret those words.

Modifications: Students with special needs can work with a partner.

Assessment: Students will be asked to hold up their clocks with the time specified showing in order to do an "around the room" quick glance at the clocks. Each student must be able to move the clock hands to show a specified time with 100% accuracy. Students will also be assessed on the design of their ladybugs including neatness and creativity.

Materials/Supplies:

The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle

ladybug clock cut outs for each student

Paper and pencil

Various coloring utensils

Fasteners

Large teacher clock

Resources:

The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle

Closing Statement:

As a class, review the activity with the clocks and ask them questions about telling time by the hour. Ask students what they liked the most about the story? What was the best part of learning to tell time this way?

For the ladybug clock template:

http://www.vickiblackwell.com/lit/ladybugclock.ppt#256,1,Slide

High Musuem Visit

This my visit to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. The sculpture is by Auguste Rodin. The sculpture belongs to the High Museum in memoriam of the 122 Atlanta Art Association members who lost their lives in a plane crash on June 3, 1962 at Orly Field, Paris. It was a gift from the French government.

High Museum of Art Atlanta: http://www.high.org/

Story Board

Our story board had to tell a story and have a beginning, middle, and end. I did the 4 stages of the life cycle of a Butterfly's Life Cycle from egg to caterpillar to pupa to adult butterfly. I used a film strip to show the order of these events.

Imaginative Art Game

We had to create an imaginative art game. I did a color test. Directions: There are words on each card and 2 options to choose from. Select the COLOR of the word, not the word! Flip the cards quickly. This is good to test whether the child can recognize colors or color words. The game can also be played by identifying the color word.

Castle

We had to create a city or a castle environment using recyclable materials. I used coke cans and a juice carton. I could use this in my classroom when talking about recycling or places that people live, etc.

ABC book

This is my ABC book called Butterflies from A to Z. I searched for different butterfly species and classifications. I used oil pastels for the butterflies. Each butterfly was hand drawn and I used the oil pastels to show the details and differences of each butterfly.

Art to Music

We had to listen to music while painting. I can't remember exactly the song we listened to while I painted this one, but I know it was kind of happy music since I did the balloons. It was probably very uplifting and kind of weird since I painted the clouds purple.

"Umbrella"

We listened to the "Umbrella" song by Rihanna and had to paint a picture while listening to the song.

Fruit Bowl

We had to re-create a picture of a fruit bowl in 30 minutes. We had to paint, but could not use paint brushes. It took me 10 minutes and I used my fingers!

Pig clay creation

Hello Kitty clay creation

Integrated Art Project for Math

This is my integrated art project using Math. I did a tree that serves as the base or foundation for the tree. The magic number is written on the trunk or the base. The apples serve as number sentences that equal the magic number. Each apple has a different number sentence. It could be used for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Integrated Art Project for Science

This is my integrated art project for Science. I took a 2 liter bottle and drew out a template of a fish. I stapled the bottle together for the body and the tail. I would use this fish when talking about fish in Science, maybe how they breathe. I could also use it when talking about recycling since I did use the 2 liter bottle.

Diorama

We had to find an issue in the world that we felt strongly about and illustrate the issue inside a shoe box. We had to include 2-D and 3-D features. I basically chose same sex marriage and how we really can't judge someone based on who they love. I include the Love is patient, kind, etc. poem to show that everyone goes through the same situations when they are in love and how we should love one another based on those same views.

Own Painting Technique

We had to make up our own painting technique and create a picture using the technique. I used marbles and tempera paint. It was really fun and messy too!