Lesson Idea 2: Dinosaurs - Students will design their own dinosaur character which can be developed for a Story Book or Cartoon Strip

Theme	Dinosaurs
Learning Area	Arts
Year Levels	1-6, 7 - 10
Curriculum Statement
Subject Area	Art/Visual Communication/Graphics
Learning Outcomes	Curriculum Statements for all deployments for Science/English/Arts Levels to include 3,4,5,6
Lesson Idea and Outline
Lesson Idea	Students will design their own dinosaur character which can be developed for a Story Book or Cartoon Strip
Outline	Students will be asked to research a variety of childrens books and magazines which utilise the dinosaur theme in writing and illustration.
Curriculum guidelines Insert CSF 2 guidelines and learning outcomes for each state.
Teachers Guide
Overview	Students will be introduced to product designing from concept to output on a selected theme: dinosaurs. Students will research, collect samples and analyse how artists have tackled the same topic. Students will introduced to character development to develop various animations and the humanizing their character. Students will produce a series of illustrations for a storybook or cartoon which can be hardcopy or electronic in final output for a selected children's audience.
Objectives	Students will work individually and in groups to be able to devise procedures and processes for collecting and collating and researching material. Student will be able to develop skills in interpreting ideas and styles and increase their writing ability by composing stories for a selected children's audience. Students will be able to develop communication skills, interaction with peers, reading, writing and presentation. Students will explore and idea and develop a drawing style to suit an audience, in this case, a child audience. Students will increase their knowledge and skills in 2d drawing media (including electronic ) used in illustration
Time required	Time: 6 periods X 50 minutes. This includes discussion , research, collating samples, evaluating ,designing characters, layout , storyline and story boarding, producing and presenting end products.
Resources required	Specialist Resource, Materials and Equipment Computer Lab or access to computer and the Internet Reference books :dinosaurs children's books and magazines Scanner for scanning in images- drawings, photos, paintings of pets. Storage:Floppy, zip or harddisk for saving work. Software: Word processing program – keying in data after research Natural media drawing program: eg. Painter Classic desktop publishing program – design and layout of heading, text and images theme photo editing program for cropping of photos and presentation and finishing. Materials and Equipment Sketch books for trialling, problem solving, designing, layout, storyboarding, refining and finishing processes Writing materials Work book for problem solving, designing and organisation
Procedures	Lesson One: Analysis of Children's Dinosaur Books Discussion of Topic – Student will be introduced to the purposes of Information and Communications technology. Students will be alerted to how information was used and disseminated in the past and the current means of communication and acquiring information. Students will devise a comparative chart to show the difference between the two approaches past and present. This can be presented in a variety of ways: drawing, slide show – Powerpoint, Hyperstudio or Kid Pix. (These programs will be hyperlinked with a lesson to indicate sample lesson outcomes with specific programs) Discussion of Theme: Pets. Students will be asked to create a list indicating their favourite pets. These will be documented in a database to show type of pet, breed, name, tricks the pets, most lovable characteristic, the funniest incident that they remember about their pet. To collect enough data for analysis and reporting students will email students from the same year level doing the same topic. Students may also go beyond this to other classes, other year levels, school community or another school. Obviously this will require work on behalf of the teacher to arrange some of this. Lesson Two: Students are to use a database program which requires the knowledge of tables, queries, forms and reports. Student will enter the following data about their pets: Type of animal, breed of animal, name of animal, favourite trick of animal, special features, age of animal. Students will then consider a variety of ways of presenting data.- The teacher will introduce multimedia, (hyperlink) such as Powerpoint or Hyperstudio, desktop publishing (hyperlink) programs such as MS Publisher, Creative Artist and photoediting (hyperlink) programs such as Paintshop Pro and web publishing (hyperlink) such as Dreamweaver . Students- they will work in groups to enable support in learning techniques in each specific software packages. Lesson Three: Students will be asked to design an outline of their pet and type in a story or poem about their pet. These can be presented to the class in a variety of ways – static display, on-line display, publishing in the schools’ newsletter or electronic noticeboard. . Vocabulary: database, query, field, key,email,
Student Presentation Options
Extensions	Students develop a range of slides for HyperStudio or PowerPoint for an interactive slide show. Students to investigate typical beginnings and endings to fairy tales. Eg. Once upon a time, A long, long time ago, and they all lived happily ever after.
Cross-curricular Options ( these letters to be developed afterwards)	Art: Fairy tale characters could designed and drawn in coloured pencil, ink, or any other 2d media. http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/VirginiaRunES/museum/egypt/canopic.htm Fairy tales could be developed as a theme for coloured lino cuts – printed as collated into a book. Mythical characters could be a topic for ceramic sculptures – hand built and glazed. Drama: student play or skits based on fractured fairy tales SOSE – a) Study of myths and legends related to areas of study in SOSE, for eg. Vikings – students could investiage nordic myths and legends SOSE b)Students can visit website that has folk and fairy tales from other countries. Student may pick fairy tales from their parents or grandparents place of birth. Students present a comparison between the fairytales – characters, plot, setting and so on. ENGLISH: Students can read stories to the class and/or make a presentation which would requiring them to use cue cards for the main points on character, plot and sequence. VISUAL ARTS: Students could draw the main event or highlight in the fairy story and write a significant quote LOTE – investigate the fairytales, myths and legends of languages other than English taught at the school. For eg. Italian the adventures of Pinnochio could be expanded. TECHNOLOGY: Make an avi of student play in Drama Publish student examples on the Internet – Gallery, make a multimedia interactive using HyperStudio or Kidpix. A desktop publishing package using scanned images of students illustrations of fairytales to create a book.
Student Guide	http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1638/books1.html http://web.syr.edu/~dbgoldma/pictures.html http://www.sciam.com/sounds/dino.au dino sounds for multimedia presentation http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/index.html http://xpertsite.com/ ask the expert about dinosaurs http://www.sci.kun.nl/thalia/funpage/television/dinosaurs/index.html - movie - jim_henson_ dinosaurs
Associated Web Links	http://www.ozprojects.net.au/projects/index.htm Ozprojects web page, can be used to find current online projects http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/gc/index.htm global classroom project homepage http://www.gsn.org/project/index.html Global schoolhouse – fund of information and resources for online learning and collaborative projects

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