The Worthington Hooker School 5th grade group students will be asked some essential questions throughout the unit of study:
What is our relationship or friendship with water?
What role does persistence play in research, revising, refining, designing, developing, and creating work?
How does collaboratively reflecting on an Artwork help us experience it more completely and deeply?
How does collaboration and brainstorming expand the creative design process?
What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking?
How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives?
How does making art attune people to their surroundings in nature?
How does learning about art (lines) impact how we perceive the world moving forward?
The answers to these essential questions will be discussed at the wrap up time, for a closure to the unit in the focus group. The focus group will be table groups for “pair shares” as well. Students will discuss afterwards with the entire class and then break into smaller groups for deeper peer share table discussions of the water direction they did when considering their independent google slideshow Water Flow Connection directions.
I want grade 5 to think for themselves, work as independently as possible, and become experts of their selected topic. I will kick off the water unit with peer collaborations that will hopefully generate and internally motivate the students for their own selected Water Flow Connection direction. I will also have the students create a fast water collaborative poem. I want students to allow Water Flow and Connections to just occur rather than students feeling uncomfortable with just allowing their first popping thoughts to be written down feeely. This soft writing exercise is a soft pretest.
After this brief sharing I will then direct students to the teachers google slideshow which will be located inside the google classroom for easier access. Inside the google classroom students will be able to click a link to my created Google Water Flow Connection Slide Show. This safe organized internet exploration will allow students in grades 5 to determine where they “spy” water in the world and which direction the students are considering. I am super curious to see what direction the students will take. All students at Worthington Hooker School will learn eventually that in the natural world, we find the importance of valuing Water! Some grade 5 students will present their created google slide shows and art compositions to grade 3 classes.
