Science:
MS-ESS2-4
The Water cycle, focusing on how water changes state as it moves through the hydrologic cycle.
This standard also includes the roles of water in Earth’s surface processes, such as evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
Technology:
1.4 Innovative Designer
Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions
1.6 Creative Communicator
Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
Art:
VA: Cr1 Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
VA:Cr1.1.2 Brainstorm collaboratively multiple approaches to an art or design problem.
VA:Cr3.1.2 Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made in creating artwork.
VACr3 Refine and Complete artistic work
VA:Re7.1.2 Perceive and describe aesthetic characteristics of one’s natural world and constructed environments.
VA:Cr1.1.4a Students brainstorm multiple approaches or directions to a creative slideshow art or design problem-
VA:Cr1.1.3a Students Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
VA:Cr1.2.2a Students make art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity with spirals-
VA:Cr2.3.7a Students apply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas-
VA:Cr3.1.7a Students participate in a brief oral critique as a verbal artist statement “walking” me through their research and design art process. Reflect on and explain important information about personal artwork in an artist statement or another format.
VA:Cr2.1.8a Students demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art making or designing-
Math:
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.EE.B.7
Solve real-world and mathematical problems by writing and solving equations of the form x + p = q and px = q for cases in which p, q and x are all nonnegative rational numbers. (Fibonacci spiral and golden ratio spiral)
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.EE.B.6
Use variables to represent numbers and write expressions when solving a real-world or mathematical problem; understand that a variable can represent an unknown number, or, depending on the purpose at hand, any number in a specified set.
