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Subject: six week lesson plans

Author:
Lori Pickering

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Date Posted: 18:41:01 08/24/05 Wed

I have been used to teaching students for an entire semester every other day. I just found out yesterday that our new school will have me teaching art to 6 groups of 6,7,8 graders for one six week period, then they will move to another exploratory. Does anyone have an idea for a plan that will touch as many areas as possible in 6wks? I will have a different group of 6 every six weeks. Our new school will have about 550 students. I really looked through IAD but I didn't find yearly plan that were broken into 6wks. Do I nend to repeat the same plan 6 times for the entire year? Help! Lori

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Re: six week lesson plans

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LAURA MCHUGH
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Date Posted: 08:43:04 02/26/06 Sun

>HI, MY NAME IS LAURA MCHUGH AND I TEACH 6,7,&8TH GRADE ART. I ONLY SEE THE KIDS FOR 15 DAYS. EITHER 15 DAYS IN A ROW OR 15 DAYS ONCE A WEEK. IT IS TOUGH. I TRY TO EXPOSE THEM TO AS MANY FUN AND CREATIVE PROJECTS AS POSSIBLE IN THAT SHORT OF TIME. I FEEL I WANT TO LET THEM HAVE FUN WHILE LEARNING IN THIS CRAZY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. ITS HARD TO GET ART HISTORY IN BUT I TRY AS BEST I CAN. IF YOU WANT I CAN SEND YOU SOME LESSONS. ALOT OF THE PROJECTS I USE IS FROM IAD. GOOD LUCK IF YOU NEED ME WRITE. THANKS LAURA

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kelly
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Date Posted: 22:39:35 09/15/06 Fri

I personally would go nuts repeating the same lessons every 6 weeks. However, I imagine it would make for an easier time with lesson planning. It would be fine to do that but I personally enjoy trying new projects in the classroom. I only repeat the lessons that I feel are successful and ones the kids really enjoyed. I suppose my approach would be to try lessons that aren't time consuming so that they get exposed to a variety of media in that short amount of time. Ideas..... drawing project maybe a one-point or two-point perspective, a watercolor abstract painting, a pinch pot or coil pot ( but clay takes time), a collage self- portrait ..That would prob be all you would have time for but it exposes them to alot of different mediums. another suggestion to save time is to make projects smaller in size. My 6th grade is set up for 6 weeks and I personally really enjoy it esp if I have a student that drives me nuts:) hehe

>I have been used to teaching students for an entire
>semester every other day. I just found out yesterday
>that our new school will have me teaching art to 6
>groups of 6,7,8 graders for one six week period, then
>they will move to another exploratory. Does anyone
>have an idea for a plan that will touch as many areas
>as possible in 6wks? I will have a different group of
>6 every six weeks. Our new school will have about 550
>students. I really looked through IAD but I didn't
>find yearly plan that were broken into 6wks. Do I nend
>to repeat the same plan 6 times for the entire year?
>Help! Lori

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