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Dwellings Around the Globe

In this activity students will explore dwellings across the globe. They will conduct collaborative research on cliff dwellings, igloos, longhouses, and yurts.

›› Full lesson

	Coast-to-Coast B...
	60-30-10
	Turn Off the Tub...
	Tour + Workshop ...
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›› Take the Tangent and Run

›› Working on my 1st design

›› CHAD & C-H SDI

›› Mural Project

›› Navigating through 'Conve

4/7/2007 5:41:44 PM Posted By Leslie Lami-Reed Hi Everyone from SDI, I am in the process of completing two 14 foot long canvas murals with my 4th graders in Kalamazoo, MI. I am creating the the murals for the organization called The Art Miles Mural Project...which you can find out more about through their web site www.artmiles.org Artmiles is an international organization that promotes peacemaking through art. Children and adults from around the world create and paint the long murals, which are sent to a central area for display. When all murals are received this year, they will be displayed together at the Phillips Brooks School n California and then shipped to Egypt in 2010 to make the statement for world peace and international understanding with the longest mural in the world. I had a great time planning the mural with the students, we brainstormed around the designated theme, "kindness" and discussed the symbols and signs of kindness and asked, "What does kindness look like?" Each student drew their vision of "kindness' that they would like to have on the mural. We hung up ALL the pictures on the wall and did a group critique, looking for common themes, interesting ideas, symbols and images that we liked. WE HAD A FANTASTIC DIALOGUE, the students were very interested in the work of others and we all agreed on the things that we wanted in our group mural. We are currently painting our murals and the kids love it, of course. Oh, best of all, when you email the mural project's staff, they SEND YOU THE PAINT and CANVAS!! I will try to figure out a way to get photos of this "work in progress" on my elementary school web site. Meanwhile, why don't you consider becoming part of the art mile? Leslie
4/8/2007 6:05:04 PM Posted By Nancy Katz Leslie, the mural and the making of the mural sounds wonderful. I wish I had known about it this past fall when my students created sculptures for a peaceful planet. I will check out the site and maybe try to do this as well. Would love to see some images of your students work.
4/9/2007 3:54:40 PM Posted By Barbara Nikoomanesh This sounds really interesting. I will look in to it. Do you know if it is too late to participate?
4/9/2007 9:35:33 PM Posted By Monique Fineman Leslie, Will they be continuing this project until 2010? I really like the idea of completing art at different sites and then bringing them togther. I think it is a very "do-able" project. I find it is easier to get people to work on a project if they can do their part at their own space. I feel it is a comfort level thing. I would like to keep this idea in my "hat" and bring it to a group of teachers in my area in the fall. We talk about collaborting and never get around to making it happen. This great idea may be a way to facititate the collaboration. Thank you for sharing, I look forward to seeing the work on-line.
4/9/2007 9:42:35 PM Posted By Leslie Lami-Reed I was asked to get my mural mailed to California by the end of the school year. You can check the web site for further information...I think it is a long term project and they would like to get as many people involved as possible! Check the site at www.artmiles.org Leslie
5/7/2007 9:00:54 PM Posted By Marianne Aalbue Leslie, this sounds great! I love your theme, kindness. This happens to be something that I stress to all my students every day. I will definitely check this site out. You might also be interested in the Pinwheels for Peace project. Checkout the website at https://www.pinwheelsforpeace.com/.
6/13/2007 11:23:24 PM Posted By sudha singh Our school is planning on having a mural in the hall, I find your ideas very empowering . I will definitely ask our administrator to look into this area too to have a glimpse of what you folks have done. We might come out with some great ideas .
6/14/2007 7:42:19 PM Posted By Lisa Verrilli Wow, I'm so excited about this! I went to the website, and I think the kids would LOVE it!I am hoping to do one mural with a lower grade and another with an upper grade. This will be a great way to show them that artwork has a real purpose in the world - and that their message can spread farther than they can imagine
6/14/2007 9:13:48 PM Posted By kathy murphy I also have now gone to the website and am excited about getting involved. We are all so tired at this time of year that it is amazing that we can get excited about anything but I look forward to this.
6/14/2007 9:36:19 PM Posted By kathy murphy Leslie, I'm still having trouble finding out what the deadline is. Do you Know???
6/18/2007 8:34:52 PM Posted By Deborah Klose Our curriculum includes a service learning project for all four years of high school. art/ design based projects are important choices for students. Thanks for the artmiles and pinwheels for peace websites.
6/26/2007 10:32:37 AM Posted By Maxine Feldman-Cohen This sounds like a wonderful website. I am going to take a look and I think it would be wonderful to work on something like this with all three divisions in my school, lower school, middle and highschool students somehow working together.
7/19/2007 2:03:53 PM Posted By Alberto Romero There seems to be several murals projects happening around the nation. We should all get together and share best practices. We are now at the stage where we finalize the image we will use. Now we are raising money and getting sponsors on board.
8/6/2007 2:46:52 AM Posted By Carolyn Drake My mind works in tangents so I'm here doing it again -- a somewhat related project, but on a much smaller scale, is the making and trading of Artist Trading Cards (known as ATCs). These are small, baseball-sized art cards that are made with the intention of being traded at social gatherings called, shockingly, card-for-card trades. Selling these trading cards is anathema. The idea is to take something traditionally precious and fixed, that is to say art, and make it free, readily available, and in motion. This site: https://www.artist-trading-cards.ch/stc.html is the real deal original. Beware the land of ATCs that are just a glorified version of scrapbooking! (Wait, did that sound snobbish?) The particular link I've pasted in will take you to a page on the site called "Sister Trading Cards". This is girls only for the time being, but the jist is this: you send twenty cards, all the same or each one different (say, one per student, for instance -- this would give me two sets with my class sizes), and Sister Trading Cards mails you back twenty cards from artists all over the world! How cool is that? And how cool would it be to connect with another classroom across the country, the world, or the hall, and do the same thing on your own?

4/7/2007 5:41:44 PM

Posted By Leslie Lami-Reed

Hi Everyone from SDI, I am in the process of completing two 14 foot long canvas murals with my 4th graders in Kalamazoo, MI. I am creating the the murals for the organization called The Art Miles Mural Project...which you can find out more about through their web site www.artmiles.org Artmiles is an international organization that promotes peacemaking through art. Children and adults from around the world create and paint the long murals, which are sent to a central area for display. When all murals are received this year, they will be displayed together at the Phillips Brooks School n California and then shipped to Egypt in 2010 to make the statement for world peace and international understanding with the longest mural in the world. I had a great time planning the mural with the students, we brainstormed around the designated theme, "kindness" and discussed the symbols and signs of kindness and asked, "What does kindness look like?" Each student drew their vision of "kindness' that they would like to have on the mural. We hung up ALL the pictures on the wall and did a group critique, looking for common themes, interesting ideas, symbols and images that we liked. WE HAD A FANTASTIC DIALOGUE, the students were very interested in the work of others and we all agreed on the things that we wanted in our group mural. We are currently painting our murals and the kids love it, of course. Oh, best of all, when you email the mural project's staff, they SEND YOU THE PAINT and CANVAS!! I will try to figure out a way to get photos of this "work in progress" on my elementary school web site. Meanwhile, why don't you consider becoming part of the art mile? Leslie

4/8/2007 6:05:04 PM

Posted By Nancy Katz

Leslie, the mural and the making of the mural sounds wonderful. I wish I had known about it this past fall when my students created sculptures for a peaceful planet. I will check out the site and maybe try to do this as well. Would love to see some images of your students work.

4/9/2007 3:54:40 PM

Posted By Barbara Nikoomanesh

This sounds really interesting. I will look in to it. Do you know if it is too late to participate?

4/9/2007 9:35:33 PM

Posted By Monique Fineman

Leslie, Will they be continuing this project until 2010? I really like the idea of completing art at different sites and then bringing them togther. I think it is a very "do-able" project. I find it is easier to get people to work on a project if they can do their part at their own space. I feel it is a comfort level thing. I would like to keep this idea in my "hat" and bring it to a group of teachers in my area in the fall. We talk about collaborting and never get around to making it happen. This great idea may be a way to facititate the collaboration. Thank you for sharing, I look forward to seeing the work on-line.

4/9/2007 9:42:35 PM

Posted By Leslie Lami-Reed

I was asked to get my mural mailed to California by the end of the school year. You can check the web site for further information...I think it is a long term project and they would like to get as many people involved as possible! Check the site at www.artmiles.org Leslie

5/7/2007 9:00:54 PM

Posted By Marianne Aalbue

Leslie, this sounds great! I love your theme, kindness. This happens to be something that I stress to all my students every day. I will definitely check this site out. You might also be interested in the Pinwheels for Peace project. Checkout the website at https://www.pinwheelsforpeace.com/.

6/13/2007 11:23:24 PM

Posted By sudha singh

Our school is planning on having a mural in the hall, I find your ideas very empowering . I will definitely ask our administrator to look into this area too to have a glimpse of what you folks have done. We might come out with some great ideas .

6/14/2007 7:42:19 PM

Posted By Lisa Verrilli

Wow, I'm so excited about this! I went to the website, and I think the kids would LOVE it!I am hoping to do one mural with a lower grade and another with an upper grade. This will be a great way to show them that artwork has a real purpose in the world - and that their message can spread farther than they can imagine

6/14/2007 9:13:48 PM

Posted By kathy murphy

I also have now gone to the website and am excited about getting involved. We are all so tired at this time of year that it is amazing that we can get excited about anything but I look forward to this.

6/14/2007 9:36:19 PM

Posted By kathy murphy

Leslie, I'm still having trouble finding out what the deadline is. Do you Know???

6/18/2007 8:34:52 PM

Posted By Deborah Klose

Our curriculum includes a service learning project for all four years of high school. art/ design based projects are important choices for students. Thanks for the artmiles and pinwheels for peace websites.

6/26/2007 10:32:37 AM

Posted By Maxine Feldman-Cohen

This sounds like a wonderful website. I am going to take a look and I think it would be wonderful to work on something like this with all three divisions in my school, lower school, middle and highschool students somehow working together.

7/19/2007 2:03:53 PM

Posted By Alberto Romero

There seems to be several murals projects happening around the nation. We should all get together and share best practices. We are now at the stage where we finalize the image we will use. Now we are raising money and getting sponsors on board.

8/6/2007 2:46:52 AM

Posted By Carolyn Drake

My mind works in tangents so I'm here doing it again -- a somewhat related project, but on a much smaller scale, is the making and trading of Artist Trading Cards (known as ATCs). These are small, baseball-sized art cards that are made with the intention of being traded at social gatherings called, shockingly, card-for-card trades. Selling these trading cards is anathema. The idea is to take something traditionally precious and fixed, that is to say art, and make it free, readily available, and in motion. This site: https://www.artist-trading-cards.ch/stc.html is the real deal original. Beware the land of ATCs that are just a glorified version of scrapbooking! (Wait, did that sound snobbish?) The particular link I've pasted in will take you to a page on the site called "Sister Trading Cards". This is girls only for the time being, but the jist is this: you send twenty cards, all the same or each one different (say, one per student, for instance -- this would give me two sets with my class sizes), and Sister Trading Cards mails you back twenty cards from artists all over the world! How cool is that? And how cool would it be to connect with another classroom across the country, the world, or the hall, and do the same thing on your own?

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