Term+4+2010+P-2+Unit

TERM 4, 2010 Unit Theme: Performing and Visual and ICT Arts! Unit: Living and Non-Living Things, Part 2 Culminating in Festival of the Arts performance "The Selfish Ladybird" List your ideas under the following headings:

Visual Arts activities
 * 1) Create living thing puppets and film the living adventures of this puppet using flip camera

ICT activities
 * 1) Use Packaging peanuts to create an animation film about some aspect of Living and Non-Living Things e.g. the life cycle of a frog/butterfly/plant etc
 * 2) As students draw a picture photograph each step (either using frame by frame or a still camera), then create a filmstrip, move it to Garage Band and add narration, then burn as an iMovie
 * 3) Write a collaborative story: Students draw a picture e.g. caterpillar and add a cutout of their face to the caterpillar... then create backgrounds where they place their "caterpillar" to tell their story; they then photograph the story and later in garage band narrate their story.

Performing Arts
 * 1) End of year performance "The Selfish Ladybird"

Literacy
 * 1) Unpack "The Selfish Ladybird" - characters, setting, problem, solution
 * 2) What do the lyrics mean?
 * 3) Narrate a story board created by students re The Selfish Ladybird
 * 4) Narrate a story board created by students re their own stories based on Living and Non-Living Things e.g. the life cycle of a frog/butterfly/plant etc
 * 5) Utilize the Melbourne Museum experience in literacy activities

__Resources:__ Harriet will purchase "The Selfish Ladybird"

Suggestion: Each classroom has an equal share of available laptops (that will have individual logins and folders)