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II. Lesson Plan and Activities
Lesson 5: Turning Analysis into Partner Responses
Essential Questions
Enduring Understandings
What is culture? Personal and cultural introspection is the first step
toward global competency.
What are values and how do they help define one’s
culture? Art is a universal language that can convey cultural
norms and values.
What are the advantages of using art (non-linguistic
communication) instead of written or verbal means of Expanding one’s awareness of other cultures
conveying ideas?
enhances appreciation of the lives of peers living in
How does the process of creating art give perspective another country.
of one’s own culture?
How does the environment affect my partner’s daily
life? How does it affect my own?
Activity
1. Crafting
Your
Partner
Response
One’s natural environment affects one’s culture.
Description and Important Points
Materials
a. In small groups, students answer the questions posed on the
Rainforest ArtLink Partner Response Form. In a class discussion,
groups share their thoughts and insights.
b. Your class’ answers to these “response” questions will help inform
the upcoming partner videoconference. In fact, your students may
wish to share or test out one or more of their specific responses
directly with their partner students during the conference itself.
c. Before the videoconference, teachers are also encouraged to
summarize student responses onto the online Rainforest ArtLink
Response Form. Once submitted, we will send it to your partners.
Rainforest
ArtLink
Partner
Response
Form
Rainforest ArtLink Tool Box: Strategies for Deeper Understanding
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Students work in small groups or individually depending on age/grade and ability level.
Expand on responses in personal journals or by video.
Use the parable “ The Blind Men and the Elephant ” to help students question the validity of making
sweeping cultural assumptions from a single collection of artwork (see Appendix).
US Learning Standards
Addressed Grade 3 4 5 6 7 8 9-10 11 -12
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