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Creature Powers

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Title:

Creature Powers

URL:

https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/d84dd6a1-14bd-44a7-883f-bd266c397d2a/creature-powers-lesson-plan-scratchjr/

Content Source:

PBS
Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Students will animate animals and animal traits using PBS Kids ScratchJr. 

Content Standard(s):
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: K
Media Arts
1) Explore and share ideas for media arts products, utilizing play and experimentation.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Process Components: Conceive
Essential Questions:
EU: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
EQ: How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Communication
  • talking/ telling
  • drawing, writing
  • share
Media Arts
  • media tools
  • what we see
  • what we hear
  • product, production, artwork
Experimentation
  • add/ take away/ combine
  • try, try, try again
Developing
  • search
  • brainstorm
  • plan, order (sequence)
  • audience
  • construct/ build
Model
  • plan
  • pattern
Elements
  • sounds/ music
  • pictures/ video/ images
  • feeling
  • story/ information
  • audience
Construct
  • make/ build
Capture
  • borrow
  • give credit
Content
  • story
  • information
Expression
  • feelings
  • mood
Meaning
  • information
  • intent
  • audience
Skill Examples:
  • Imagine and share by responding to teacher questions about different kinds of sounds or music to add to a story from class.
  • Tell or draw steps to turn a story into a media arts production by choosing images (video or still pictures) and sound with prompting.
  • With help, use software or an application to draw a picture to show how a character from a story in class feels and copy and paste that image onto a PowerPoint slide.
  • With help, change the sound or image on a PowerPoint slide in order to express a different feeling.
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: K
Media Arts
15) Use personal experiences and choices in making media arts productions.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
Process Components: Synthesize
Essential Questions:
EU: Media artworks synthesize meaning and form cultural experience.
EQ: How do we relate knowledge and experiences to understanding and making media artworks? How do we learn about and create meaning through producing media artworks?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Community/ Culture
  • self
  • family
  • neighborhood
  • classroom
  • school
  • city
Safety
  • personal space
  • personal information
  • trusted person
Appropriate
  • purpose
  • permission
  • context
  • audience
Skill Examples:
  • Create a recording to retell a story from class using names from their families and friends.
  • With a prompting, tell a happy memory of listening to or watching a media arts production.
  • With prompting, tell how the story told in a media arts production is like a day at school.
  • Learn to ask permission from a trusted adult about using digital tools and applications and practice with teacher.
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: K
Media Arts
18) Interact safely and appropriately with media arts tools and environments.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Process Components: Relate
Essential Questions:
EU: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
EQ: How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Community/ Culture
  • self
  • family
  • neighborhood
  • classroom
  • school
  • city
Safety
  • personal space
  • personal information
  • trusted person
Appropriate
  • purpose
  • permission
  • context
  • audience
Skill Examples:
  • Create a recording to retell a story from class using names from their families and friends.
  • With a prompting, tell a happy memory of listening to or watching a media arts production.
  • With prompting, tell how the story told in a media arts production is like a day at school.
  • Learn to ask permission from a trusted adult about using digital tools and applications and practice with teacher.
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 1
Media Arts
1) Generate many ideas to form plans and models for media arts productions, with guidance.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Process Components: Conceive
Essential Questions:
EU: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
EQ: How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Generating Ideas
  • many ideas
  • fluency of thought
Models
  • sketches
Communication
  • present
Basic Principles
  • audio
  • time
  • story
Editing
  • improve
  • rearrange
Skill Examples:
  • Brainstorm to create a list of many ideas for a single media arts product.
  • After brainstorming for ideas for a media arts product, present ideas to the class along with sketches or models for the two favorite ideas.
  • With help, use software or an application to draw two pictures in sequence to show an action from a character in a story and copy and paste those images onto a PowerPoint slide. Add audio that communicates that reinforces the tone of the action. Identify audio, passage of time, and story in the final product.
  • With help, use software or an application to draw two pictures in sequence to show an action from a character in a story and copy and paste those images onto a PowerPoint slide. Add audio that communicates that reinforces the tone of the action. Identify audio, passage of time, and story in the final product. After receiving feedback, modify the work to improve.
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 1
Media Arts
15) Use personal experiences, interests, and models in creating media arts productions.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
Process Components: Synthesize
Essential Questions:
EU: Media artworks synthesize meaning and form cultural experience.
EQ: How do we relate knowledge and experiences to understanding and making media artworks? How do we learn about and create meaning through producing media artworks?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Community/ Culture
  • self
  • family
  • neighborhood
  • classroom
  • school
  • city
Safety
  • personal space
  • personal information
  • trusted person
Appropriate
  • purpose
  • permission
  • context
  • audience
Fairness
  • ownership
  • credit
Skill Examples:
  • With help, record a happy memory of listening to or watching a media arts production.
  • Share with the class a memory of hearing/ seeing a media arts production (i.e., concert, movie, etc.).
  • Through teacher-led discussion and by responding to questions, describe media arts productions experienced every day.
  • Learn to ask permission from a trusted adult about using digital tools and applications and practice with teacher.
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 1
Media Arts
18) Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering safety, rules, and fairness.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Process Components: Relate
Essential Questions:
EU: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
EQ: How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Community/ Culture
  • self
  • family
  • neighborhood
  • classroom
  • school
  • city
Safety
  • personal space
  • personal information
  • trusted person
Appropriate
  • purpose
  • permission
  • context
  • audience
Fairness
  • ownership
  • credit
Skill Examples:
  • With help, record a happy memory of listening to or watching a media arts production.
  • Share with the class a memory of hearing/ seeing a media arts production (i.e., concert, movie, etc.).
  • Through teacher-led discussion and by responding to questions, describe media arts productions experienced every day.
  • Learn to ask permission from a trusted adult about using digital tools and applications and practice with teacher.
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 2
Media Arts
1) Identify multiple concepts for media arts products through productive thinking, improvisation, and collaboration.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Process Components: Conceive
Essential Questions:
EU: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
EQ: How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Concepts
  • big ideas
  • main idea
  • lessons/ message
Developing
  • investigate
  • decision matrix
  • plan, order (sequence)
Model
  • draft
  • pattern
  • sketch
  • script
Basic Principles
  • light
  • repetition
  • attention
  • sound
  • time
  • story/ narrative
  • point of view
Editing
  • revised/ changed
  • rearranged
  • refine
  • complete
Evaluate
  • test
  • question
Skill Examples:
  • Brainstorm with a group and list many, varied, and unusual ideas for a class media arts project. Use improvisation to imagine a script.
  • In a group and after brainstorming, use a decision matrix to choose one idea and with guidance create a plan and/or model for a media arts production.
  • With a group and with guidance, present with a media arts product teaching addition by positioning numbers effectively and drawing attention to steps in the process of adding numbers.
  • With a group and with guidance, present with a media arts product teaching addition by positioning numbers effectively and drawing attention to steps in the process of adding numbers. Using feedback from the class, refine the presentation to improve it.
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 2
Media Arts
15) Use personal experiences, interests, information and models in creating media arts productions.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
Process Components: Synthesize
Essential Questions:
EU: Media artworks synthesize meaning and form cultural experience.
EQ: How do we relate knowledge and experiences to understanding and making media artworks? How do we learn about and create meaning through producing media artworks?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Community/ Culture
  • self
  • family
  • neighborhood
  • classroom
  • school
  • city
Safety
  • personal space
  • personal information
  • trusted person
Appropriate
  • purpose
  • permission
  • context
  • audience
Fairness
  • ownership
  • credit
Skill Examples:
  • With help, combine two art forms to describe a happy memory of listening to or watching a media arts production into a draft of a media arts product.
  • Share with the class a memory of hearing/ seeing a media arts production (i.e., concert, movie, etc.) and include the meaning and message of the event.
  • Through teacher-led discussion and by responding to questions, describe how media arts productions experienced everyday are part of the school community.
  • Use software and online sources with permission from an adult. Give credit to anyone's work that is used in media arts products, sound or images.
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 2
Media Arts
18) Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, practicing safety, rules and fairness.

Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Connecting
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Process Components: Relate
Essential Questions:
EU: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
EQ: How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Community/ Culture
  • self
  • family
  • neighborhood
  • classroom
  • school
  • city
Safety
  • personal space
  • personal information
  • trusted person
Appropriate
  • purpose
  • permission
  • context
  • audience
Fairness
  • ownership
  • credit
Skill Examples:
  • With help, combine two art forms to describe a happy memory of listening to or watching a media arts production into a draft of a media arts product.
  • Share with the class a memory of hearing/ seeing a media arts production (i.e., concert, movie, etc.) and include the meaning and message of the event.
  • Through teacher-led discussion and by responding to questions, describe how media arts productions experienced everyday are part of the school community.
  • Use software and online sources with permission from an adult. Give credit to anyone's work that is used in media arts products, sound or images.
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Author: Tiffani Stricklin
Alabama State Department of Education