Jenny Steinman Heyden, Arts Integrator and Teacher since 1997
Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education puts artists (like me)
from the community into the classroom paired with teachers interested
in developing their curriculum in interesting ways!
The Green Unit has evolved over the past few years from a way to study dinosaurs, then the color green, to Green Energy and Conservation. We have developed the "Green Team" at Agassiz School out of this poject. Now, in 2007-08, the group of students working with Akemi Taguchi, will attempt to get one classroom to "Go Green" by purchasing a solar panel for the school's roof. Stay tuned to see how that goes!
Check out the Green Unit Sample Presentation pdf!
The latest: GREEN!
See also the official cape website, at www.capeweb.org, for more detail about the class!
2006/2007 Green Unit
Implementing February through June 2007
Highlights:
Brainstorming Session with Students, "Green means Helping People Help the Earth!"
Session 1: "I get it, we're Making a World made out of people!" (student quote, 2nd grade)
Tracing all students to create the continents
Session 2: One Kilogram of Coal = 20 students watching TV for one hour. And other reality checks for fossil fuels!
Session 3: Getting started on our alternative energy village!
One Lunch, Recycled
Session 4: Buildings out of recycled materials, paper mache, epoxy, and solar panels!
Session 5: Children Design Final exercise: T-Shirt with Green Power mandate?
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C.A.P.E. is the Chicago Arts Partnership in Education!
Jenny is a Visual Artist with that organization!
The latest: GREEN!
See also the official cape website, at www.capeweb.org, for more detail about the class!
New in 05/06 - Steinman Heyden will be in class monthly for the Green Unit at Agassiz Elementary!
The focus of this year's unit is to focus on the Earth, then Energy, then People's use of Energy, then Alternative Energies.
Hawthorne Scholastic Academy had Jenny teach four units in 2003, Agassiz Elementary 1 Unit.
Grade 1: Chicago River Habitat Mural in Four Parts
Chicago, Rainforest,
Desert,
Ocean
Awesome teacher support in 1st Grade!!
2nd Grade Hawthorne: River Unit: Cause and Effect on the River!
4th Grade Hawthorne: River Sculpture and Movement Inspired by the work of Andy Goldsworthy.
6th Grade Hawthorne: Original River Poetry Books
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Agassiz Elementary:
CAPE Unit on WHALES!
MARCH, 2003 at Agassiz Elementary in Chicago, IL.
First Grade Unit with Stacy Buehler and Mira Weber, First Grade Teachers at Agassiz Elementary, Chicago.
3/14/03
We're making a whale mural! The students create the whale by forming one on the paper and the artist (that's me) tracing them.
Next we painted it in mixing colors of the Beluga whale at different ages:
CAPE Classes from SPRING 2002
1. CAPE: Chicago Arts Partnership in Education
4th Grade Integrated Unit Spring 2002
2nd Grade Integrated Unit Spring 2002
2. Toddlers: Picture This! Class at Lookingglass Theater Company
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1. 4th Grade, Hawthorne School: "I Can Make a Difference" Integrated Arts and Poetry
Unit kicks off on May 9, 2002, and runs through June 4th.
In this unit we will create Medicine Wheels of recycled art to represent the four elements, Earth,Water, Wind, and Fire.
Students will write four different types of poetry and feature one of the elements in each poem.
These poems will be hung, then, from the four elements on the Medicine Wheel.
The second part of this unit will encourage the
theme "I Can Make a Difference"
and students will write poems and think about the larger issue of recycling and the Earth.
These poems, along with clippings from magazines, will be glued onto a wooden chair, thus creating the "I can make a difference" chair in each of three classrooms.
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2. Thursdays at Noon! Jenny is the "Picture This" teacher at Lookingglass Theater Company!
"Picture This" Class! For 2-5 year-old children with a desire to get up and boogie and then make art!
So far this term we've made puppets, masks, and outlines of ourselves.
We held a magic show with capes and a trick, a bunny play with tickets held at Will Call, and A Kiss for Little Bear production with one bear and two hens.
There is more to come, especially the Mother's Day Parade and a Musical! Next session starts mid-June. Check out the website for more information on Lookingglass classes.
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1b. The 2nd Grade, Hawthorne School: "African Folktales!" Unit will start soon! Our shadow puppets are sure to amaze all who come to see the show! Last year's videotape is available through Lookingglass Theater Company!
Woman Made Gallery has sponsored an in-school two-session unit to create a Frida Kahlo, self-portrait puppet. Jenny Steinman, instructor.
Woman Made Gallery's "Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait Puppet" Class
Recent Chicago Arts Partnership (CAPE) Units:
"Interaction"
Debbie Brown, Annette Brenner. 5th Grade "Interaction" Unit, Agassiz Elementary.
"Pespectives"
Akemi Taguchi, Beatrice Davis, First Grade, Agassiz Elementary.
Theme of "Comparitive Cultures" we will compare life as a student in France and Spain.
Creative projects to include studying Picasso, Matisse, and Salvador Dali in understanding line and color.
Students will tell a visual story relating to the experience with these artists' works and the readings.
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