SFUSD Summer Institute

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About SLANT: On July 19-23, 2010 San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences, the de Young Museum, 826 Valencia, KQED, ISKME, and the Exploratorium launched the Science, Literacy, Arts iNtegration in the Twenty-first century (SLANT) Summer Institute for Pre-k through 8th Grade Teachers to explore and investigate science and art integration. Participants received resources to use in the classroom and on field trips as they plan lessons with grade level colleagues. In addition to the Summer Institute, SFUSD offered Follow Up Workshops for Teachers throughout the 2010-2011 school year, including Projection & Assessment January 29, 2011 at SFUSD and Creative to the Core January 18 and February 1, 2012 at the De Young Museum and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, CA

Summer Institute Schedule and Activity Pages

Contents 1 Day 1 2 Day 2 3 Day 3 4 Day 4 5 Day 5 6 Lesson Plans 7 Resources 8 Standards 9 Follow Up Workshops

Day 1

@ California Academy of Sciences

• Introductions

• Warm Up Improv Activity: Yellow Ball and Vacations

• Arts Integration Four Corners Activity

• Teaching Process Concept Map Activity

• Sun Curve Challenge

• STEAM Design Challenge Activity

• Investigation #1: Metaphor File:Investigation-1.doc
  • File:Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.doc
  • File:Someone Puts a Pineapple Together.doc

• Wiki and Ning Reflection
  • Wikis in Plain English Common Craft Video
  • OER ArtsCollab

Bay Area Writing Project Three Levels of Text Protocol http://www.nsrfharmony.org/protocol/doc/3_levels_text.pdf

Evening Activity: Write a blog post comment here: [1] and/or add to the reflection of Day 1 here: [2]

• Sign up for the ArtsCollab here: http://oerarts.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp?
• Three sites to review
  • Understanding Science
  • Project Zero Studio Habits of Mind
  • Route 21

Day 2

@ SFUSD Cabrillo 750 25th Avenue

• Reflection Studio Habits of Mind Wheel File:SHOMWheel.doc and Beyond Visual Arts File:Studio Habits of Mind Beyond VAlm.doc

• Reading discussion 5 Ways to Integrate by Julia Marshall File:5WaystoIntegrate Marshall.pdf

• Investigation Sound and Music with Linda Shore from the Exploratorium
  • Smudge App for measuring decibels

• National Framework

• Observation Sketching with Lorie Topinka

• Investigations #2: Reformatting File:Investigation2.doc

Evening Activity Read article File:AE March10 Marshall.pdf 'Thinking outside the box' by Julia Marshall and make connections to Project Zero Studio Habits of Mind or Understanding Science . Post comments on the OER ArtsCollab

Day 3

@ Cal Academy of Sciences

• Reflection
• Tableau
  • Article with tableau http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/newsletters/Fall2003Newsletter/Pg36-37.pdf

• Interpretation Storytelling with 826 Valencia

• Communication Media Literacy with KQED
  • KQED Resources

Evening Activity: Optional author's chair at 826 Valencia. Read over Highlands Art, Science and Conservation Journal and record questions and comments/modifications to discuss Thursday. Post comments on the OER ArtsCollab

Day 4

@ de Young Museum

• Critical Thinking de Young Museum/California Academy of Sciences/Conservatory of Flowers

QuestionsFile:HighlandsQuestions.doc

• School Loop

• Investigation #3 MimicryFile:Investigation3.doc

Evening Activity: Continue lesson/unit planning to share on Friday and reflect on blog post here [3]

Day 5

@ Cal Academy of Sciences

• Reflection and Planning

• Share lessons with Fine-Tuning Protocol

• Reflection on Teaching Process Concept Map

• Next Steps
  • Continued collaboration on wiki documents and OER ArtsCollab

Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan Template Copy and paste this template in a new page to create a lesson plan.

To create a new page: Click edit on this page and add the name of your lesson plan below in double brackets. [[SLANT Lesson Plan]]

Viewfinder Lesson- Kindergarten Tree Unit

Dan and Mr. Michael's Unit

George's Page

George's Science Lesson

Crocodile Unit The unit in this lesson is on measurement

Tableau with HM 2nd grade

Miu's page

Emily's Page

Pointellism

Learning Science through Sketching

Parts of a Tree Tableau

Recycle Paper Project

Armaita

GJL

Homophones

GJL2

File:Tree Lesson.doc This lesson teaches K Ss about the parts of a tree through the use of visual arts

File:Sci Secret Bell.doc This is a lesson on Secret Bells from Wed.

File:RockCycle Intro Lesson 1.doc This lesson introduces the concept of changes and forces that cause change in order to prepare students to learn about the Rock Cycle and changes in the Earth designed by Tara Ramos and Karla Leon-Guerrero from Paul Revere School

File:RockCycle Intro Lesson 2.doc This lesson continues to introduce the concept of forces that cause change in nature. Here students begin to explore forces outside themsleves such as gravity, temperature, etc. Designed by Tara Ramos and Karla Leon-Guerrero from Paul Revere School

File:Tableau lesson plan.doc A more detailed lesson of how to create an environment to use tableau in the classroom with live links to resources!

File:Family Traits .doc this is a lesson plan to help students learn the different family traits on the periodic table

Resources

• OER Commons
  • Advanced Search
  • Common Craft Videos in Plain English
  • Art as Inquiry Resources
  • Teacher's Domain
  • KQED Resources
  • Exploratorium Resources
  • De Young Andy Goldsworthy
• Cal Academy of Sciences
• 826 Valencia
• Understanding Science
• Project Zero Studio Habits of Mind
• Route 21
• District Lesson Plan
• Zero1 Biennial San Jose September 16-19, 2010
• Sound and Music Sites of Interest
  • Exploratorium: Science of Music
  • Squidoo Viretual Museum of Soundtoy
  • The Soundry
  • Global Groovin
  • Visual Composer
  • Visual Acoustics
  • The vOICe
• FOR RECORDING:
  • Audacity
  • Sound Studio

Standards

• California Content Standards
• Commons Core State Standards

Follow Up Workshops

Projection & Assessment January 29, 2011 at San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, CA