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Saturday, April 5, 2014

4-5-14 Be a Good Sport!

HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION STANDARDS
GRADES 5-8
sportsmanship, rules, and safety
2.5 Motor Skill Development: All students will utilize safe, efficient, and effective movement to develop and maintain a healthy, active lifestyle.
C. Sportsmanship, Rules, and Safety
RESOURCES
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Practicing appropriate and safe behaviors while participating in and viewing games, sports, and other competitive events contributes to enjoyment of the event.
2.5.6.C.1
Compare the roles and responsibilities of players and observers and recommend strategies to enhance sportsmanship-like behavior.

2.5.6.C.2
Apply rules and procedures for specific games, sports, and other competitive activities and describe how they enhance participation and safety.

There is a strong cultural, ethnic, and historical background associated with competitive sports and dance.
2.5.6.C.3
Relate the origin and rules associated with certain games, sports, and dances to different cultures.
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Self-initiated behaviors that promote personal and group success include safety practices, adherence to rules, etiquette, cooperation, teamwork, ethical behavior, and positive social interaction.
2.5.8.C.1
Assess player behavior for evidence of sportsmanship in individual, small-group, and team activities.
2.5.8.C.2
Summarize types of equipment, products, procedures, and rules that contribute to the safety of specific individual, small-group, and team activities.

Movement activities provide a timeless opportunity to connect with people around the world.
2.5.8.C.3
Analyze the impact of different world cultures on present-day games, sports, and dance.

Monday, April 30, 2012

4-30-2012 Asthetic Responses to Art

Teching the CCCS
Visual and Performing Arts
Grades 5-8
Asthetic Responses

1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies: All students will demonstrate and apply an understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
A.  ASTHETIC RESPONSES: By the end of grade 8, all students demonstrate COMPETENCY in the following content knowledge and skills for their required area of specialization in DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE, or VISUAL ART.


RESOURCES
Contextual clues to artistic intent are embedded in artworks. Analysis ofarchetypal or consummate works of art requires knowledge and understanding of culturally specific art within historical contexts.
1.4.8.A.1
Generate observational and emotional responses to diverse culturally and historically specific works of dance, music, theatre, and visual art
Art may be used for utilitarian and non-utilitarian purposes.
1.4.8.A.2
Identify works of dance, music, theatre, and visual art that are used for utilitarian and non-utilitarian purposes.
Performance technique in dance, music, theatre, and visual art varies according to historical era and genre.
1.4.8.A.3
Distinguish among artistic styles, trends, and movements in dance, music, theatre, and visual art within diverse cultures and historical eras.
Abstract ideas may be expressed in works of dance, music, theatre, and visual art using a genre’s stylistic traits.
1.4.8.A.4
Compare and contrast changes in the accepted meanings of known artworks over time, given shifts in societal norms, beliefs, or values.
Symbolism and metaphor are characteristics of art and art-making.
1.4.8.A.5
Interpret symbolism and metaphors embedded in works of dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Awareness of basic elements of style and design in dance, music, theatre, and visual art inform the creation of criteria for judging originality.
1.4.8.A.6
Differentiate between “traditional” works of art and those that do not use conventional elements of style to express new ideas.
Artwork may be both utilitarian and non-utilitarian. Relative merits of works of art can be assessed through analysis of form, function, craftsmanship, and originality.
1.4.8.A.7
Analyze the form, function, craftsmanship, and originality of representative works of dance, music, theatre, and visual art.

Friday, April 27, 2012

4-27-2012 History of Arts and Culture

Teching the CCCS
Visual and Performing Arts
Grades 6-8
History of Arts and Culture


By the end of grade 8, all students demonstrate COMPETENCY in the following content knowledge and skills for their required area of specialization in DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE, or VISUAL ART.


RESOURCES
Technological changes have and will continue to substantially influence the development and nature of the arts.
1.2.8.A.1
Map historical innovations in dance, music, theatre, and visual   art that were caused by the creation of new technologies.
Tracing the histories of dance, music, theatre, and visual art in world cultures provides insight into the lives of people and their values.
1.2.8.A.2
Differentiate past and contemporary works of dance, music, theatre, and visual art that represent important ideas, issues, and events   that are chronicled in the histories of diverse cultures.
The arts reflect cultural morays and personal aesthetics throughout the ages.
1.2.8.A.3
Analyze the social, historical, and political impact of artists on culture and the impact of culture on the arts.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

12-28-2011 Happy Birthday Woodrow Wilson.


1856 - Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. President [1913-1921]: asked Congress to declare war on Germany [Apr 2, 1917]; president of Princeton University [1902-1910]; Governor of New Jersey [1911-1913]; married to Ellen Axson [three daughters], Edith Galt; nickname: Schoolmaster in Politics; died Feb 3, 1924)



And in less important news on that same day in 1987 was George Michael's Faith topped the charts.

Monday, December 19, 2011

12-19-2011 "A Christmas Carol" Published in 1843

CHARLES DICKENS' A CHRISTMAS CAROL WAS FIRST PUBLISHED 
ON DECEMBER 19, 1843

Charles Dickens Info:
http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/
http://charlesdickenspage.com/
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/index.html
http://www.dickens-literature.com/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRdickens.htm

A Christmas Carol Text Online:
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DicChri.html
http://www.literature.org/authors/dickens-charles/christmas-carol/chapter-01.html
http://www.stormfax.com/dickens.htm
abridged - http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/carol.htm
MP3 - http://www.wiredforbooks.org/carol/content.htm

LAL Units:
Spark Notes Reader's Guide- http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/christmascarol/
Reading/English questions - http://www.leasttern.com/ChristmasCarol/CCarol.html
Classroom Activities - http://books.simonandschuster.net/tagged_assets/cg05_860_3906.pdf
A Dickens of a Party Webquest - http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson238/dickens_WebQuest.html
Theme - http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/work_carol.shtml

Activities:
Brainpop - http://www.brainpop.com/english/famousauthorsandbooks/charlesdickens/preview.weml
Trivia - http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/work_carol_trivia.shtml
Ask Scrooge - http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/puzzle_scrooge.php
A Christmas Carol Quiz - http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/puzzle_carol.shtml
Scramble puzzle - http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/puzzle_carol_scramble.shtml
Victorian Christmas - http://www.scrapalbum.com/vxp1.htm
Dickens & Christmas - http://charlesdickenspage.com/christmas.html
Scrooge's Ghostly Adventure - http://www.dan-dare.org/FreeFun/Games/CMTVMore/AChristmasCarol2/AChristmasCarol2.htm
Scrooge's Soaring Star Ride - http://disney.go.com/games/play3/?content=379318#/games/play3/&content=379318

Historical Look at Victorian Life:
10 Creepy Aspects - http://listverse.com/2009/08/29/top-10-creepy-aspects-of-victorian-life/
Huge Database of info - http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html
From About Britain - http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/life-in-victorian-england.asp
An Introduction - http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm
Family Life - http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vfam.html
Era of Elegance - http://www.erasofelegance.com/history/victorianlife.html
BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/
Poverty - http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/articles/poverty.html

Saturday, December 17, 2011

12-17-2011 FIRST IN FLIGHT

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941


Principals of Aeronautics Online Intermediate Text - http://wings.avkids.com/Book/intermediate.html

History:
Library of Congress First Flight - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec17.html
This Day in History - http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-airplane-flies
Flights of Inspiration: First Flight - http://fi.edu/flight/first/intro.html
First Flight Society - http://www.firstflight.org/
Milestones of Flight - http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal100/gal100.html
Wright Brothers History - http://www.wright-house.com/wright-brothers/wrights/1903.html
Eye Witness to History - http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wright.htm
Re-Living the Wright Way - http://wright.grc.nasa.gov/index.htm

Science:
The Science of Flight - http://www.yesmag.ca/focus/flight/flight_science.html
How Airplanes Work - http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/airplanes.htm
Air and Flight - http://www.mysciencesite.com/science6airflight1.html
Flight Lesson Plans - http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/lessonplans/flight.html
What Makes an Airplane Fly? - http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/fltmidfly.htm
NASA quest - http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/background/
Bill Nye - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzD_mOp5oE

Math:
Plane Math - http://www.planemath.com/planemathmain.html
Flight Distance Calculator - http://www.travelmath.com/flying-distance/
Education in Flight from the USAF - http://www.educationinflight101.com/
Game - http://www.someschoolgames.com/kids-logic-games/flight/

da Vinci:
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/awakening101/leonardo.html
http://www.flyingmachines.org/davi.html
http://www.da-vinci-inventions.com/flying-machine.aspx
http://www.brainpop.com/search/search.weml?keyword=flight
http://www.loc.gov/loc/kidslc/LGpdfs/leo-teacher.pdf