Cambridge+Springs+-+Drama+-+Spring+2012

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**Teaching Artist: Box of Light **

**Art Specialist: Cory Wilkerson **

**Core Group Teachers (A teaching artist may work with up to 3 "core" teachers.):** Mary Ann Birchard and Joe Sienicki, 6th Grade **Non-Core Group Teachers:** Steve Reisenauer, Music - Joy Bon, Technology, Joy Vargo, Art

**(__If time permits__, the teaching artist may work with other teachers in the building.)**

**Planning Date(s) (To be facilitated by an Art Specialist):** 11/8/2011 **Date(s) when Teaching Artist observes the school culture and classrooms:** February 6th **Residency Dates:** Begin February 6th - Continue through March 6th

**Reflection Date (To be facilitated by an Art Specialist at the end of the residency):** Final Planning and Reflection Day - March 7th- after 2:00

Project Based Learning - A Description of the Residency The basic project is this. We are creating a television show that solves mysteries. This weeks' mystery is that of a teacher who was talking about South America and then ran out of the room shouting "I forgot it". The tv show has teams of mathematicians, historians, geographers and explorers, who take clues from the teacher's journal and follow him across South American. The mathematicians calculate where is his going based upon longitude and latitude, spout math faces and describe the object he lost geometrically. The historians tell us the background of every location we visit. The geographers create model locations (an Inca village in the Andes, the Amazon river valley, Rio de Janeiro and a Mayan Temple. The locations have specific geometric characteristics. The mathematicians explain the layout as the stop action camera takes us through streets that intersect at right angles, veer off at 45%, etc. The explorers are our comic heroes who invert longitude and latitude numbers and end up all over the globe, are chased by the animals of the Usumacinta river and finally find the lost teacher (played by Joe Sienicki). Along the way, the kids are learning how to handle cameras, editing software and, of course, how to green screen, all while learning math and social studies content. We have four different groups going and that the classroom is a busy place.



**Documentation (Please add your video, photo & other documentation here):** media type="youtube" key="-jXf-0Otv8k" height="315" width="560" This video takes you on a 'fly by' of our project.
 * AN OVERVIEW OF OUR PROJECT**

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The above clip shows an 'ah yes, this is good' moment in our project. Taken in the last week of our residency, I had looked around the room and saw everyone actively and independently involved in some part of our project. I took out the Flip camera and basically swung it around in a circle. In the clip, you will see kids researching, planning, stop actioning (I know, not really a word) the continents on a globe and the 20% rainforest loss due to deforestation, filming and performing. What you won't see is us having to lead them through their activities or asking them to keep on task. You won't be able to tell which kids have a hard time in school and which don't. Every child in the film is engaged, every child is doing their work independently. To do so, they had to be clear on their goals and competent in the processes (online research, film, stop action, planning). I saw this moment many times in small groups. It was great to see it happen across an entire class. media type="youtube" key="FgeKANceRz8" height="315" width="560"
 * A CLASSROOM MOMENT IN 360º**
 * Final 6th Grade Video Project**

__ **Residency Planning Documents** __ __ **** __ __ **** __

(Please upload copies of your residency planning documents here. They will include the Residency Planning Guide, Residency Plan Worksheet, Residency Observation for Artists, and Standards Based Lesson Plans. To find blank copies of these forms, visit the Useful Forms page of the wiki.)