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Using THIN Cardboard, Demonstrate the visual meaning of ONE Principle of Design (2 Class Periods)

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Successful and Room for Improvement Images

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Successful and Room for Improvement Images

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53 Ways to Check for Understanding

1. Summary Poem Activity

List ten key words from an assigned text.

Do a free verse poem with the words you highlighted.

Write a summary of the reading based on these words.

2. Invent the Quiz

Write ten higher-order text questions related to the content. Pick two and answer one of them in half a page.

3. The 411

Describe the author’s objective.

4. Opinion Chart

List opinions about the content in the left column of a T-chart, and support your opinions in the right column.

5. So What? Journal

Identify the main idea of the lesson. Why is it important?

6. Rate Understanding

7. Clickers (Response System)

8. Teacher Observation Checklist

9. Explaining

Explain the main idea using an analogy.

10. Evaluate

What is the author's main point? What are the arguments for and against this idea?

11. Describe

What are the important characteristics or features of the main concept or idea of the reading?

12. Define

Pick out an important word or phrase that the author of a text introduces. What does it mean?

13. Compare and Contrast

Identify the theory or idea the author is advancing. Then identify an opposite theory. What are the similarities and differences between these ideas?

14. Question Stems

I believe that ________ because _______.

I was most confused by X.

15. Mind Map

Create a mind map that represents a concept using a diagram-making tool (like Gliffy). Provide your teacher/classmates with the link to your mind map.

16. Intrigue Journal

List the five most interesting, controversial, or resonant ideas you found in the readings. Include page numbers and a short rationale (100 words) for your selection.

17. Advertisement

Create an ad, with visuals and text, for the newly learned concept.

18. 5 Words

What five words would you use to describe ______? Explain and justify your choices.

19. Muddy Moment

What frustrates and confuses you about the text? Why?

20. Collage

Create a collage around the lesson's themes. Explain your choices in one paragraph.

21. Letter

Explain _______ in a letter to your best friend.

22. Talk Show Panel

Have a cast of experts debate the finer points of X.

23. Study Guide

What are the main topics, supporting details, important person's contributions, terms, and definitions?

24. Illustration

Draw a picture that illustrates a relationship between terms in the text. Explain in one paragraph your visual representation.

25. KWL Chart

What do you know, what do you want to know, and what have you learned?

26. Sticky Notes Annotation

Use sticky notes to describe key passages that are notable or that you have questions about.

27. 3-2-1

Three things you found out.

Two interesting things.

One question you still have.

28. Outline

Represent the organization of X by outlining it.

29. Anticipation Guide

Establish a purpose for reading and create post-reading reflections and discussion.

30. Simile

What we learned today is like X.

31. The Minute Paper

In one minute, describe the most meaningful thing you've learned.

32. Interview You

You’re the guest expert on 60 Minutes. Answer:

1. What are component parts of _______?

2. Why does this topic matter?

33. Double Entry Notebook

Create a two-column table. Use the left column to write down 5-8 important quotations. Use the right column to record reactions to the quotations.

34. Comic Book

Use a comic book creation tool like Bitstrips to represent understanding.

35. Tagxedo

What are key words that express the main ideas? Be ready to discuss and explain.

36. Classroom TED Talk

37. Podcast

Play the part of a content expert and discuss content-related issues on a podcast, using the free Easypodcast.

38. Create a Multimedia Poster with Glogster

39. Twitter Post

Define _______ in under 140 characters.

40. Explain Your Solution

Describe how you solved an academic problem, step by step.

41. Dramatic Interpretation

Dramatize a critical scene from a complex narrative.

42. Ballad

Summarize a narrative that employs a poem or song structure using short stanzas.

43. Pamphlet

Describe the key features of _______ in a visually and textually compelling pamphlet.

44. You've Got Mail

Each student writes a question about a topic on the front of an envelope; the answer is included inside. Questions are then “mailed” around the room. Each learner writes her answer on a slip of scratch paper and confirms its correctness by reading the “official answer” before she places her own response in the envelope. After several series of mailings and a class discussion about the subject, the envelopes are deposited in the teacher’s letterbox.

45. Bio Poem

To describe a character or person, write a poem that includes:

(Line 1) First name

(Line 2) 3-4 adjectives that describe the person

(Line 3) Important relationship

(Line 4) 2-3 things, people, or ideas the person loved

(Line 5) Three feelings the person experienced

(Line 6) Three fears the person experienced

(Line 7) Accomplishments

(Line 8) 2-3 things the person wanted to see happen or wanted to experience

(Line 9) His or her residence

(Line 10) Last name

46. Sketch

Visually represent new knowledge.

47. Top Ten List

What are the most important takeaways, written with humor?

48. Color Cards

Red = "Stop, I need help."

Green = "Keep going, I understand."

Yellow = "I'm a little confused."

49. Quickwrite

Without stopping, write what most confuses you.

50. Conference

A short, focused discussion between the teacher and student.

51. Debrief

Reflect immediately after an activity.

52. Exit Slip

Have students reflect on lessons learned during class.

53. Misconception Check

Given a common misconception about a topic, students explain why they agree or disagree with it.

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Prompts for Writing and Evaluation

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What's in it for ME? 19 Art   Contests for Teens

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What's in it for ME? 19 Art   Contests for Teens

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https://www.format.com/magazine/resources/art/art-contests-for-kids

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Posts the Elements & Principles, Techniques, Red/Green Rules.

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Posts the Elements & Principles, Techniques, Red/Green Rules.

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Professional Artists work that may have inspired this assignment. Thrive to make work comparable to this! 

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Professional Artists work that may have inspired this assignment. Thrive to make work comparable to this! 

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Name, Size, Media, and Artist

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Critique: Rotating clockwise, on the paper the structure sits on, write the principle being demonstrated, and because with no "it's... include elements and principles only.

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PBS LEARNING MEDIA | Black History Month | PBS KIDS

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My YouTube PLAYLIST

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My YouTube PLAYLIST

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Design a structure

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Cardboard (Relief or In-the-Round Sculpture) that says the same thing(s) as your choice African American Sculpture. Artist statement first.