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LESSON HANDOUT:

 

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Lesson Plan 2 (Friday 11/19/10)

            • Morning Drill: make a list, as long as you can, of all the items you saw today from when you woke up to when you came to class.

            • Brainstorming workshop Part 1 – Go over the drill

                        1. Make a class list of these things (white board time)

                        2. How can we organize that information? (Chronologically, amounts, types)

                        3. Using elements of design, how could we show this information?

            • Homework review/more exemplars

            • Introduce Unit

                        • Unit Packet

            • Brainstorming workshop Part 2 – Topic discussion

                        1. What would you want to research?

                                    What is important to you?

                        2. How would you go about researching it?

            • Assign Homework Due 11/24/10

                        • Begin your research.

                        • Extra (not for credit): find another visualization and tell me about it!

Big Idea:

            • The exploration of one’s environment through the research and visualization of that environment.

Essential Question/Elegant Problem:

            • Create a data visualization using 2D elements of collage and/or drawing that represents quantitative information of your environment.

Key Concepts:

            • Visual Communication

            • Research

Art/Math Concepts:

            • Elements of Design (composition/layout, Chunk, Hierarchy, form).

            • Visualized information.

Art/Math Skills (MD state curriculum):

            • Art 6.2.3: Classify artworks by selected factors, including subject matter, style, and technique.

            • Art 6.2.4: Explain commonalities of content and process among the arts, humanities, and sciences.

            • Math 6.7.C.1.b: Express mathematical ideas orally.

            • Math 6.7.C.1.c: Explain mathematically ideas in written form.

            • Math 6.7.C.1.b: Identify mathematical concepts in relationship to other disciplines.

            • Math 6.7.C.1.c: Identify mathematical concepts in relationship to life.

Guiding/Essential Questions:

            • What types of information or data are in our environment?

                        • How can data be represented?

                        • What might we learn from looking at data in this way?

            • What makes a data visualization?

                        • Does it need to look a certain way? Can bit be 2d or 3d?

                        • Does it need a function? What function would that be?

            • What do you want to visualize?

                        • How would you make a visualization of yourself?

            • In math graphs are used to organize and display data. How does data visualization similar/different?

                        • How might mathematical principals be used in data visualization?

Objectives:

Concepts:

            • Students will focus on properties of data visualization as a means of communicating their ideas of their environment to others.

            • Students will identify aspects of their environment that are important to them, thereby coming to understand the effects their environment have on them and vise versa.

            • Students will learn how concepts of one field can be applied to others (ie. math and art).

            • Students will be able to apply mathematical concepts to real world solutions.

            • In gaining a greater understanding of visualizing information, students will be introduced to basic concepts of visual communication.

Skills:

            • Students will learn elements of graphic design, such as composition/layout, hierarchy, form, chucking, color, line, alignment, etc…)

            • Students will use data visualization to learn about their environment

            • Students will seek out artists who use data visualization as a means of exploring the world they live in.

Dispositions:

            • Students will begin to look at information with a new visual yet analytical perspective.

            • Students will come to appreciate mathematics as a useful tool both in and outside of the classroom.

Objective:

            • Students will know how mathematical principals beyond simple operators can be applied to visual concepts.

            • Students will have a greater understanding of the world they live in through the research they conduct.

            • Students will be able to collect and organize data.

            • Students will be able to make connections between math art and other subjects.

 

Sequence and Scripting:

8:30 to 9:45 to 10:55am (rough Script)

9:45 – 9:55 – 10min - (Drill)

            • Take everything off your desk except a piece of paper

            • Make a list of all the objects you remember from when you woke up to when you came to class.

9:55 – 10:00 – 5min - (Go over drill)

            • Brainstorming workshop Part 1 – Go over the drill

                        1. Make a class list of these things (white board time)

                        2. How can we organize that information? (Chronologically, amounts, types)

                        3. Using elements of design, how could we show this information?

10:00 – 10:15 – 15min - (Go over homework)

            • Homework review/more exemplars

10:15 – 10:30 – 15min - (Introduce Unit)

            • Unit Packet

            • Expectations

            • Rubric

            • Timeline

10:30 – 10:45 – 15min - (Walkthrough of Exemplars - Part 2)

            • Topic discussion

                        1. What would you want to research?

                                    What is important to you?

                        2. How would you go about researching it?

10:45 – 10:50 – 5mm(Explain Homework)

            • Assign Homework Due 11/24/10

                        • Begin your research.

                        • Extra (not for credit): find another visualization and tell me about it!

DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.