Collaborative+Work

=Big Ideas:= 1.) RECYCLING [|Recycling](fact sheet) [|Recycled Art Sculpture] (video clip) [|Styrofoam Sculpture Lesson Plan] -Students learn about how the earth's resources are limited. By creating a sculpture from materials that already surved their purpose and were discarded, students will be more cautious of their consumption.

2.) CURRENT ISSUES [|Guerrilla Art Action (video clip)] [|Guerrilla Girls (video clip)] -Activitst students take it upon themselves to spread knowledge and awareness of imporant issues.

3.) POWER [|Daily Life and Media] -Talk about how the struggle for power arises in every culture, race, gender, and species. The lesson would focus on a single issue for each student. They would portray the most dominant players in the struggle according to them.

4.) SELF PORTRAIT/BUST PROJECT [|Clay 3-D Lesson] -Working with clay, students will create a full size bust of themself as who they wish to become or what they hope to become in their adult life.

5.) FAMILY HISTORY/ TIMELINE [|Altered Books]- The International Society of Altered Book Artists -The students will make a self-portrait of their life as a book. They can show where they came from, who they are, and then what they will go on to do, or simply a favorite chapter of their life. Another possible idea would be to do a family history or timeline of important events. This website should give the students background information about the project and show them what could be included in an altered book.

6.) WORLD PEACE freedom, tolerance, violence, war [|Pinwheels for Peace] -This project will teach the students about current issues and allow them to express their own feelings about what is going on around them. They will hopefully all be different and individual to the student who created it.

7.) GOING GREEN [|Earth Friendly Architecture] -Students would have to research new eco-friendly technologies that are becoming part of architecutral layouts. The final project would be for the students to design the most "green" structure.

8.) IMAGINARY SETTINGS [|Giovanni Battista Piranesi] -This exhibit is about imaginary places and designs. Students would be assigned to think imaginatively and create an impossible place.

9.) ART IN THE COMMUNITY Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller Exhibit at Carnegie Museum [|Opera for a Small Room] -Museum exhibits like this could spark an idea to create a classroom project. It would be interesting to have the students look at this example and then create an environment as a group with certain qualities and restrictions.

10.) MANIPULATION OF MATERIAL [|Working with Clay] -I would have the students experiment with the clay medium simply manipulating it as they please. The assignment would then go into the techniques of working with clay and the tools associated with it.

=Multicultural Lesson Plans:=

1.) Imagining War [|Personal Experiences]

2.) The Ideal Home/Home Displacement [|What Home Means]

3.) African Artwork Expressing Basic Human Needs [|Ceramic Box Lesson African Art Resources]

4.) [|Russian-Ukrainian Egg Design Lesson] [|Ukrainian Eggs] -History and Traditions behind it

5.) Artists with Disabilities [|VSA Lesson Plan]

6.) Poverty and Stereotypes [|Learning to Give Lesson] (parts of this lesson are really strong)

7.) Contemporary Women Artists [|Georgia O'Keefe]

8.) Sound/Movement [|Making Music]

9.) Relationship Between Human and Place [|Natural Environment]

10.) Cultural Meaning Behind Song Writing [|Listening to the Lyrics]