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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 ...
	Tour + Workshop ...

›› Take the Tangent and Run

›› Working on my 1st design

›› CHAD & C-H SDI

›› Mural Project

›› Navigating through 'Conve

5/6/2007 4:44:57 PM Posted By Kim Rakosky Our staff was just informed that we will only have an Art teaching position in our K-8 school for 1 day per week next year! Outrageous. Once again the classroom teacher will have to perform curriculum magic to ensure that our kids are learning what they deserve to learn. Thankfully design can be woven creatively into so many topics. This website will be helpful.
5/7/2007 9:48:02 PM Posted By Tonya Adison I often have conversations with my colleagues and family about the state on education in this country. Each day I teach, I wonder "am I really that far removed?" Granted it was 11 years ago when I graduated from high school, but at times, my high school is an unfamiliar place. Students seemingly need to be coerced to do many things I did without pause when I was in high school. I think the main cause of this is the fact that students are only forced to engage in academics. There is not enough room for exploration and creativity in an environment focused on high-stakes testing. I believe students need to be accountable for their education, but I feel we also have a responsibility to provide them with opportunities to show their strengths, express themselves without a formula. Art programs are just one example of what is being sacrificed. At some point someone decided art was less important than math, science and/or english. Policy-makers often miss the big picture that learning is a process that needs a multitude of information from a variety of disciplines to be successful.
6/9/2007 2:32:49 PM Posted By Lisa Verrilli So true, so true. It's very difficult being the only arts provider in schools. I feel as though I am the only voice for my students. Most classroom teachers feel the art is "added fluff" on the school day, and unless there is an administrator who supports the arts, it often gets put on the bottom of the priority pile. I struggle to find a way to show and prove to the Policy- makers that art is as necessary as Math and Science and needs to be treated as such. An ideas????
6/9/2007 4:53:57 PM Posted By Franc Leo I am upset with this news. I know for a fact that "Art" is one of the hardest disciplines to be learned. It is a fact. I tell everyone that math cannot lie, history cannot change, reading and writing will keep using the same letters and that academics mean little if there is no inspiration behind what is taught. Ask any musician, writer, painter, designer, and generally speaking, any creative person; What and where are the most valuable things on this earth? In the museums, galleries, temples and homes. We treasure art. Art is usually known as the non-vocal expression of man (when not talking about music and such). Shame on those who display such ignorance towards our and others creative side that makes us curious and eager, by putting down art, design, physical education and other activities, on a lower scale. I guess those people have not many paintings, or adornments around their homes. Doesn't every fridge have "art" with a magnet holding it up in almost every home with children? Do we not show pride when others look at it? If there is "yes" as an answer to any of these questions, then there will be hope that art will be back in force to schools, so that the schools may teach math, history, science and other academic courses again to understanding and inspired students. There should be an art class every day as Physical Ed. This expands the mind and keeps everyone healthy.
6/9/2007 5:41:56 PM Posted By Louis Mazza I'm fortunate to have a principal who understands the value of creativity. For others out there who are looking for ways to quantify the value of art, design and creative thinking in order to make a case to administrators and others in decision-making positions, check out some of the many books that have been written lately on the impact of creativity in our culture. The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World by Paul H. Phd Ray A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida
6/11/2007 8:57:04 AM Posted By mel ruth I am fortunate to have been a peace Corps volunteer. I have been all over the world and my classroom reflects all the crafts, textiles and statutes from all over. My classroom is a pantheon to cultures. Visitors come from all over to see my classroom...it is the first stop on the tour for many visitors.
6/11/2007 1:44:00 PM Posted By Kathleen Lee We are fortunate to have a leader who believes in art. At my former school, we lost our art, music, consumer science, foreign language, and shop teachers. We also saw an increase in student violence and kids unable to express themselves in art, did so in graffiti on our walls. The arts helps everyone. We need our arts. No Child Left Behind is behind lots of this I believe. It is as though urban poor kids don't need the arts, just private rich school kids do.
6/11/2007 10:33:32 PM Posted By Lisa Verrilli Franc - your words are an inspiration. Ever think of being a guest speaker? Louis - the books you recommend will beome my summer reading list, thanks.
6/11/2007 11:17:22 PM Posted By Franc Leo Lisa, thanks for your kind words. I think that there will be a turning point for the best sooner or later, and when we have the arts trully embedded in the curriculum, the educational world will be a better place for the students, teachers and the country.
6/12/2007 11:29:01 PM Posted By Miranda Thompson We learned first hand how crucial a great art teacher is to a staff this year. Deb has done a phenomenal job and really worked across the curriculum on too many projects to name. Then she was hit by a car and has been out with a broken arm. The parade of subs that don't know a Monet from a Manet (OK bad joke) has really turned the students off and affected the whole mood at the school The students just told me today, "I hate art now. Ms. Klose made art fun and really taught us alot. We want her back!" I concur that it's great to have a principal that realizes how crucial the arts are and to give us such great support!
6/12/2007 11:37:23 PM Posted By kathy murphy In an ideal world there would be no war and education of our young people would truly be a priority. Our tax dollars that are now used to fund war could be used instead for schools where the class sizes are small and the arts are a top priority.
6/18/2007 10:45:09 PM Posted By Deborah Klose Thanks Miranda! The one armed art teacher will return in September! My feeling about no child left behind is that the child IS left behind. Without the arts students don't become creative thinkers and problem solvers. Children need to "play". Until a child reaches puberty they have an innate sense of design. If design elements and principles are not taught after puberty it is lost. What a boring world we will have in the future without artists and designers
6/19/2007 10:08:06 PM Posted By Stephanie Mulvihill Yes, yes, yes. I'm tired of being the "fun", "non-content area" class. I feel that many teachers feel that art classes are added "fluff". We had an art educator work with one of our math classes. The classroom teacher (not even thinking about it) said lets be serious and get through this lesson so we can do some fun art later. I realize that art is indeed fun, but it should be taken just as seriously as a math class.
6/20/2007 1:11:31 PM Posted By John Galt One reason art may be devalued, at least in New York State, is that there is an emphasis on students passing standardized tests. This becomes very important to people and so the classes which end in those exams seem more important. The other classes in which students do not have to pass these exams are seen more as "fluff" because there is no objective measure of student's knowledge. I am not advocating a Regents exam in art, but I do think this may be one reason why art may not be seen by many as rigorous.
6/21/2007 2:56:59 PM Posted By kathy murphy One year I was layed off when the school board decided to cut the arts but not sports. I was so appalled and hurt. I went back to school and recieved my certification for elementary and was called back for teaching all subject for one year before art was reinstated. It initially was a very hard time but everything worked out.
6/22/2007 12:51:44 AM Posted By Dorothy Ahoklui Art is necessary in schools because gives the students a chance to relax and be their creative selves in addition, I feel that it also serves as therapy for many of them. I have been in the school system for only ten years and if it was not for Art some students would not have made it through a school year, so the United States Education Department really needs to rethink where they allocate their monies.
6/23/2007 2:59:07 PM Posted By Louis Mazza As I've said before, I'm quite lucky to have a supportive principal, however, as art teachers, we need to inculcate our content into more than just our own little art rooms and treat art less as a separate class and more as a way of learning and expressing all things. My school operates on partnerships between content areas and collaboration with other educators, and I know that this is not possible in other schools, but perhaps there are more creative ways to make this point more explicit than just the annual art show.

5/6/2007 4:44:57 PM

Posted By Kim Rakosky

Our staff was just informed that we will only have an Art teaching position in our K-8 school for 1 day per week next year! Outrageous. Once again the classroom teacher will have to perform curriculum magic to ensure that our kids are learning what they deserve to learn. Thankfully design can be woven creatively into so many topics. This website will be helpful.

5/7/2007 9:48:02 PM

Posted By Tonya Adison

I often have conversations with my colleagues and family about the state on education in this country. Each day I teach, I wonder "am I really that far removed?" Granted it was 11 years ago when I graduated from high school, but at times, my high school is an unfamiliar place. Students seemingly need to be coerced to do many things I did without pause when I was in high school. I think the main cause of this is the fact that students are only forced to engage in academics. There is not enough room for exploration and creativity in an environment focused on high-stakes testing. I believe students need to be accountable for their education, but I feel we also have a responsibility to provide them with opportunities to show their strengths, express themselves without a formula. Art programs are just one example of what is being sacrificed. At some point someone decided art was less important than math, science and/or english. Policy-makers often miss the big picture that learning is a process that needs a multitude of information from a variety of disciplines to be successful.

6/9/2007 2:32:49 PM

Posted By Lisa Verrilli

So true, so true. It's very difficult being the only arts provider in schools. I feel as though I am the only voice for my students. Most classroom teachers feel the art is "added fluff" on the school day, and unless there is an administrator who supports the arts, it often gets put on the bottom of the priority pile. I struggle to find a way to show and prove to the Policy- makers that art is as necessary as Math and Science and needs to be treated as such. An ideas????

6/9/2007 4:53:57 PM

Posted By Franc Leo

I am upset with this news. I know for a fact that "Art" is one of the hardest disciplines to be learned. It is a fact. I tell everyone that math cannot lie, history cannot change, reading and writing will keep using the same letters and that academics mean little if there is no inspiration behind what is taught. Ask any musician, writer, painter, designer, and generally speaking, any creative person; What and where are the most valuable things on this earth? In the museums, galleries, temples and homes. We treasure art. Art is usually known as the non-vocal expression of man (when not talking about music and such). Shame on those who display such ignorance towards our and others creative side that makes us curious and eager, by putting down art, design, physical education and other activities, on a lower scale. I guess those people have not many paintings, or adornments around their homes. Doesn't every fridge have "art" with a magnet holding it up in almost every home with children? Do we not show pride when others look at it? If there is "yes" as an answer to any of these questions, then there will be hope that art will be back in force to schools, so that the schools may teach math, history, science and other academic courses again to understanding and inspired students. There should be an art class every day as Physical Ed. This expands the mind and keeps everyone healthy.

6/9/2007 5:41:56 PM

Posted By Louis Mazza

I'm fortunate to have a principal who understands the value of creativity. For others out there who are looking for ways to quantify the value of art, design and creative thinking in order to make a case to administrators and others in decision-making positions, check out some of the many books that have been written lately on the impact of creativity in our culture. The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World by Paul H. Phd Ray A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida

6/11/2007 8:57:04 AM

Posted By mel ruth

I am fortunate to have been a peace Corps volunteer. I have been all over the world and my classroom reflects all the crafts, textiles and statutes from all over. My classroom is a pantheon to cultures. Visitors come from all over to see my classroom...it is the first stop on the tour for many visitors.

6/11/2007 1:44:00 PM

Posted By Kathleen Lee

We are fortunate to have a leader who believes in art. At my former school, we lost our art, music, consumer science, foreign language, and shop teachers. We also saw an increase in student violence and kids unable to express themselves in art, did so in graffiti on our walls. The arts helps everyone. We need our arts. No Child Left Behind is behind lots of this I believe. It is as though urban poor kids don't need the arts, just private rich school kids do.

6/11/2007 10:33:32 PM

Posted By Lisa Verrilli

Franc - your words are an inspiration. Ever think of being a guest speaker? Louis - the books you recommend will beome my summer reading list, thanks.

6/11/2007 11:17:22 PM

Posted By Franc Leo

Lisa, thanks for your kind words. I think that there will be a turning point for the best sooner or later, and when we have the arts trully embedded in the curriculum, the educational world will be a better place for the students, teachers and the country.

6/12/2007 11:29:01 PM

Posted By Miranda Thompson

We learned first hand how crucial a great art teacher is to a staff this year. Deb has done a phenomenal job and really worked across the curriculum on too many projects to name. Then she was hit by a car and has been out with a broken arm. The parade of subs that don't know a Monet from a Manet (OK bad joke) has really turned the students off and affected the whole mood at the school The students just told me today, "I hate art now. Ms. Klose made art fun and really taught us alot. We want her back!" I concur that it's great to have a principal that realizes how crucial the arts are and to give us such great support!

6/12/2007 11:37:23 PM

Posted By kathy murphy

In an ideal world there would be no war and education of our young people would truly be a priority. Our tax dollars that are now used to fund war could be used instead for schools where the class sizes are small and the arts are a top priority.

6/18/2007 10:45:09 PM

Posted By Deborah Klose

Thanks Miranda! The one armed art teacher will return in September! My feeling about no child left behind is that the child IS left behind. Without the arts students don't become creative thinkers and problem solvers. Children need to "play". Until a child reaches puberty they have an innate sense of design. If design elements and principles are not taught after puberty it is lost. What a boring world we will have in the future without artists and designers

6/19/2007 10:08:06 PM

Posted By Stephanie Mulvihill

Yes, yes, yes. I'm tired of being the "fun", "non-content area" class. I feel that many teachers feel that art classes are added "fluff". We had an art educator work with one of our math classes. The classroom teacher (not even thinking about it) said lets be serious and get through this lesson so we can do some fun art later. I realize that art is indeed fun, but it should be taken just as seriously as a math class.

6/20/2007 1:11:31 PM

Posted By John Galt

One reason art may be devalued, at least in New York State, is that there is an emphasis on students passing standardized tests. This becomes very important to people and so the classes which end in those exams seem more important. The other classes in which students do not have to pass these exams are seen more as "fluff" because there is no objective measure of student's knowledge. I am not advocating a Regents exam in art, but I do think this may be one reason why art may not be seen by many as rigorous.

6/21/2007 2:56:59 PM

Posted By kathy murphy

One year I was layed off when the school board decided to cut the arts but not sports. I was so appalled and hurt. I went back to school and recieved my certification for elementary and was called back for teaching all subject for one year before art was reinstated. It initially was a very hard time but everything worked out.

6/22/2007 12:51:44 AM

Posted By Dorothy Ahoklui

Art is necessary in schools because gives the students a chance to relax and be their creative selves in addition, I feel that it also serves as therapy for many of them. I have been in the school system for only ten years and if it was not for Art some students would not have made it through a school year, so the United States Education Department really needs to rethink where they allocate their monies.

6/23/2007 2:59:07 PM

Posted By Louis Mazza

As I've said before, I'm quite lucky to have a supportive principal, however, as art teachers, we need to inculcate our content into more than just our own little art rooms and treat art less as a separate class and more as a way of learning and expressing all things. My school operates on partnerships between content areas and collaboration with other educators, and I know that this is not possible in other schools, but perhaps there are more creative ways to make this point more explicit than just the annual art show.

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