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Drawing Idioms, Parables & Proverbs

Compare Confucius and Benjamin Franklin p 540 World Literature HRW

 

I originally tried this in a Lafayette LA Middle school - went well, lots of student interest and fairly strong link to ELA standards - wonderful connection between ELA and Character, and with Idioms, lots of humor ('I am in a bit of a pickle')

Bullying 

Visual Arts

Pinata by Diago Rivera & Peacable Kingdom by Edward Hicks

This may well be developed during 2013-14 at Dixie ES by Visual Arts Teacher Rachel Louch & Counselor Monica Ebersole

Sounds - Vibrations of instruments & vocal chords

The Senses - Several of Our Superpowers

 

This may well be developed during 2013-14 at Dixie ES by STEM / STEAM Teacher Amy Pavona

Steps of Scientific Method / Problem Solving Steps

 

This may well be developed during 2013-14 at Dixie ES by STEM / STEAM Teacher Amy Pavona and Crystal Peters

     

Compare & Contrast Lewis and Clark - The Voyage of Discovery and the Trip to the Moon - Moonshot

   

Compare MKL to Alexander The Great

 

Link to 'I have a Dream' speech, and 'Letter From Birmingham Jail'

Add trail of influence from The Bhagavad Gita, Thoreau, Gandhi, MLK, Nelson Mandela......

Alexander The Great - Speech to his troops

Thinking

 

"But in college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts.  One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think.  When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures - solitude, books and imagination - outside with the whispering pines."

The Senses - Several of Our Superpowers

   
   

Famous People Unit(s) - Washington, Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Gandhi, Helen Keller, Mandela, Mother Theresa, Christ ........Sun Yat-Sen, Dragonboat guy, Confucius......

 

Ecology / Bioneers

 

Syllables & 'Its a Wonderful World'

   

The Petite Prince - 
And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

The Little Prince - Study Guide

Important things are sometimes not so visible....

The North Star - Peter Reynolds (FableVision)

   

Democracy / Man With a Hoe

   

MATH - Probability....Handicapping Horses in a Race

Odds - Meaning and an Odds Chart

See Also - Lottery Payouts....

   

Science and Art - Calder / Balance & Fibronacci Sequence.....Audubon / Birds....Surate / paint unit & periodic table....

   
     

Bhagavad-Gita to Thoreau to Gandhi to MLK

p 469 World Literature  - Holt Rinehart Winston

Viruses & Bacteria - I Am a Bee Strategy  H1N1 / Bird Flu / Historical Plague..Anti-Bacterial Wipes...Evolution and over-use of anti-Biotics....

Periodic Table Activities

Periodic Table Projects - Photos

Double Helix - Art Project

Additional Emerging Units: Mulan, Red Scarf Girl, Ann Frank, Zlata's Diary, Joan of Arc....Butterfly Lovers & Romeo & Juliet (also, young boy's perspective - Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in ... "We are all Yugoslavians. That's what Savo Heleta was told growing up in a predominantly Muslim city in Bosnia.

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Emerging Professional Learning Prompts & Modules

     
     

Education For a Sustainable Future - Curriculum Units

   

Character Through The Arts - Completed Units

Early DRAFT and Completed Units

CTSL - Listing of Units

   

Famous People & Their Character Traits

What is America All About?

History

   
     

China & The United States

   

Stephen Hawking on his personal technology and then AI

Artificial Intelligence & Robots (see also The Great Courses #4278 p45 Oct 30, 2008

Stephen Hawking on AI

   

Religion

   
   

Oye Como Va - Santana

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