Awesome Artists is a five week unit consisting of five 40 minute lessons, focusing on the impact social protocols have on social media and digitally shared spaces.
The following learning sequence outlines how students will progress:
1. Students will explore some different rules of social media, and will create a class code ('The Artist's Code) to agree by while using the class website/blog
2. Students will be accompanied around the school, and will choose a feature to draw (a tree, building, pond, playground, etc).
Students will share their thoughts on what they shared in two to three sentences on their class blog site, attached
3. Students will use class cameras in groups of four to take pictures of four different areas/things to share on the class website
4. Students will be taking pictures of their classroom, and uploading them to the class blog
5. Students complete their assessment:
The following learning sequence outlines how students will progress:
1. Students will explore some different rules of social media, and will create a class code ('The Artist's Code) to agree by while using the class website/blog
- Create Artist's Code as a class
- Explore some different social media as a class (kidblog, weebly, etc), and what rules are in place
2. Students will be accompanied around the school, and will choose a feature to draw (a tree, building, pond, playground, etc).
Students will share their thoughts on what they shared in two to three sentences on their class blog site, attached
- Share feature drawn on class blog
- Comment on two other student's posts
3. Students will use class cameras in groups of four to take pictures of four different areas/things to share on the class website
- Work in groups to take four different photos of the school (one for each student)
- Upload pictures to class blog
- Comment on two other student's pictures
4. Students will be taking pictures of their classroom, and uploading them to the class blog
- Students upload two pictures of their favourite part of the classroom (e.g. poster, desk, book corner, etc)
- Students comment on two other student's pictures on the class blog, and share what they like about the pictures (what they have in common, e.g. "I enjoy reading books as well", or "I like my desk because it is tidy")
5. Students complete their assessment:
- Upload a picture to their blog: where I like to spend my lunch time
- Write a three sentences about the picture, why you like to spend your time there
- Comment on three other student's pictures (three pictures in total)