Winslow homerworkshop

Using Technology to Bring the Art of Winslow Homer into Your Classroom

This 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

Workshop Schedule

1. Morning Bell and Fall of a Cowboy - Backwards Design

2. Breezing Up – Visual Thinking Strategies3. Veteran in a New Field – Note Taking4. Gulf Stream – Multiple Intelligences, Point of View5. Compare and Contrast paintings 6. Fog Warning – Story Elements7. How to save files and create a writing template8. How to locate existing lessons9. Close and Evaluation

Backwards Design

1. Identify Desired Results: (portions of Mass Framework theme #6) [Students will understand] the development of technology and its effects on people’s standard of living, economic growth, communal life, and the environment.

2. Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessments that would show student understanding of how the development of technology effected:

Standard of livingEconomic growthCommunal lifeEnvironment

3. Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction (and identify appropriate art work)

Fall of the Cowboy Remington 1895

Morning Bell, Winslow Homer 1871

Breezing Up, 1876

Visual Thinking Strategies

What's going on in this picture?

What do you see that makes you say that?

What more can you find?

Blooms Taxonomy

Evaluation: defends, justifies

Synthesis: revises, modifies, combines

Analysis: compares, contrasts, analyzes

Application: produces, uses, applies

Comprehension: explains, gives examples, interprets

Knowledge: identifies, names, lists

Veteran in a New Field, 1865

Veteran in a New Field, 1865

Visual Note TakingDesign Elements:

Space Line Balance ShapeValue

Key elements:Composition Balance Rhythm

Observation- Free Sketch Artful Thinking Program- Free Write

What do you see?

What do you think about that?

What does it make you wonder?

Gulf Stream, 1899

Applying Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences to ‘The Gulf Stream’

1. Bodily-kinesthetic2. Logical-Mathematical3. Interpersonal4. Linguistic5. Musical6. Naturalist7. Spatial8. Intrapersonal9. Existentialist

Point of View

Intrapersonal: Assume the identity of the man on the deck- what is he thinking? What does he see?

Existentialist: Where is he going?

Analysis, Evaluation and Creation Graphic Organizers: Compare and Contrast Making Connections

The Fog Warning 1885

Fog Warning - Story Elements

Setting Character Plot Conflict Ending

Visual Thinking Strategies

What's going on in this picture?

What do you see that makes you say that?

What more can you find?

www.m-ums.com/moodle

MOODLE

CreditsBackwards Design

http://digitalliteracy.mwg.org/curriculum/process.html

Breezing 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.html

Fall of a Cowboy http://www.cartermuseum.org/Inspiring_Visions/Remington/remington1895_art.html

Fog Warning http://www.mfa.org/collections/index.asp

Credits, continued

Gulf Stream http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/06.1234

Morning Bell http://artgallery.yale.edu/pages/collection/popups/pc_amerps/enlarge18.html

Multiple Intelligences

Veteran in a New Field http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/67.187.131

Visual Thinking Strategies http://vtshome.org/