Final Project - Lesson Plan for Highschool

This lesson plan can be used in either a highschool health, social studies, english, or art class. In the lesson I have specified an english class but I think it would work with any of the above.

Colleen Little
Final Project – ECMP 335
June 16, 2008

Lesson Plan: Addressing Issues through Art
Component: Creative/Productive; Cultural/Historical
Objectives: -understand how to present a topic through art
-combine art and technology to form a statement
-use commonly found stories, ideas, and images to present and respond
to a topic

Common Essential Learning: communication; critical & creative thinking; independent
learning; personal & social development; technological
literacy
Set: Students have been studying different social justice issues in their literature
class. In this assignment students will be asked to choose an issue and make
an awareness presentation on this issue. This assignment must use art and
technology as the two main tools to present the issue. Whether they want to
make a PowerPoint presentation where the design of the presentation has had
specific attention paid to it, or they want to make a video, or they want to create
a book of images that pertain to the issue.
Development: 1) class makes list of different social justice issues.
2) class uses descriptive words to summarize/describe each issue
3) students pick one issue they feel especially close to
4) teacher explains to the students that they will be doing a presentation
on their issue and that they must use art and technology to create the
presentation.
5) teacher shows an example of a former project from this assignment
Closure: This is a large project (it is their final project) it will be due in a month and students will be given one class period a week to work in class on the
assignment. All other work must be done on their own time.
Assessment: -students will be assessed on ability to combine art and technology and to use them as productive and helpful tools to depict a topic.
-students will be evaluated on collected information
-students will be evaluated on quality of presentation
Materials: -different technological and art tools (depending on what the students needs are and what the school has available)
Resources: -example of project (made by teacher); available tools on the internet
(blip, etc)