This workshop introduces teachers to paintings by Winslow Homer that can be used in lessons to enrich instruction in language arts, history, and science. Teachers will learn how to analyze Homer's paintings using various strategies like backwards design, visual thinking strategies, and applying multiple intelligences. They will also explore how to develop lessons using specific paintings like The Fall of a Cowboy, Breezing Up, Veteran in a New Field, and The Gulf Stream that incorporate standards on topics like technology's impact on society. The workshop covers saving files and creating writing templates, locating existing lessons, and close with an evaluation.
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1. Using Technology to Bring the Art of Winslow Homer into Your ClassroomThis workshop will introduce you to paintings by Winslow Homer that can be used to enrich and inform standards-based instruction in Language Arts, history, and science. Strategies for creating your own lessons will be shared, as well as how to locate lessons that others have prepared for you. In addition, you will learn how to save files and create a writing template with an image.Presented by Betsy Lambert and Liz Wernig
2. Workshop ScheduleMorning Bell and Fall of a Cowboy - Backwards DesignBreezing Up Visual Thinking StrategiesVeteran in a New Field Note TakingGulf Stream Multiple Intelligences, Point of ViewCompare and Contrast paintings Fog Warning Story ElementsHow to save files and create a writing templateHow to locate existing lessonsClose and Evaluation
3. Backwards DesignIdentify Desired Results: (portions of Mass Framework theme #6) [Students will understand] the development of technology and its effects on peoples standard of living, economic growth, communal life, and the environment.
4. 2. Determine Acceptable Evidence Assessments that would show student understanding of how the development of technology effected:Standard of livingEconomic growthCommunal lifeEnvironment
5. 3. Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction (and identify appropriate art work)Fall of the Cowboy Remington 1895Morning Bell, Winslow Homer 1871
11. Visual Note TakingDesign Elements: Space Line Balance Shape ValueKey elements:Composition Balance RhythmObservation- Free SketchArtful Thinking Program- Free WriteWhat do you see?What do you think about that?What does it make you wonder?
13. Applying Howard Gardners Multiple Intelligences to The Gulf Stream Bodily-kinestheticLogical-MathematicalInterpersonalLinguisticMusicalNaturalistSpatialIntrapersonalExistentialist
14. Point of ViewIntrapersonal: Assume the identity of the man on the deck- what is he thinking? What does he see?Existentialist: Where is he going?
20. CreditsBackwards Design http://digitalliteracy.mwg.org/curriculum/process.htmlBreezing Up: http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=30244.0&oimage=0&c=Blooms taxonomy:http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec470/sp09/5/bloomstaxanomy.htmlFall of a Cowboy http://www.cartermuseum.org/Inspiring_Visions/Remington/remington1895_art.htmlFog Warning http://www.mfa.org/collections/index.asp
21. Credits, continuedGulf Stream http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/06.1234Morning Bell http://artgallery.yale.edu/pages/collection/popups/pc_amerps/enlarge18.htmlMultiple IntelligencesVeteran in a New Field http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/67.187.131Visual Thinking Strategies http://vtshome.org/
Editor's Notes
#6: 1871 School teacher/city girl working at mill in fancy clothes, others in homespun, Farm to factory, loneliness of independence, wealth over social tradition, industrial age over farm community. Woman left rural past for modernityhttp://artgallery.yale.edu/pages/collection/popups/pc_amerps/details18.html
#10: 1865 soldiers return to farming after civil war, scythe like grim reaper. Wars harvest was death, great wheat crop, union jacket and wheat as northern crop northern victory, but sad horizontals even if sunnyhttp://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/homr/hd_homr.htm
#11: 1865 soldiers return to farming after civil war, scythe like grim reaper. Wars harvest was death, great wheat crop, union jacket and wheat as northern crop northern victory, but sad horizontals even if sunnyhttp://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/homr/hd_homr.htm
#13: 1899 after time in Bahamas, gulf stream waters are darker, mast broken, oarless, typhoon, ship blood in water, black man in peril, reconstruction, solitudehttp://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/american_paintings_and_sculpture/the_gulf_stream_winslow_homer/objectview.aspx?collID=2&OID=20011479
#16: 1865 soldiers return to farming after civil war, scythe like grim reaper. Wars harvest was death, great wheat crop, union jacket and wheat as northern crop northern victory, but sad horizontals even if sunnyhttp://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/homr/hd_homr.htm