In this activity, students will extend their unit on printmaking by designing and creating a stamp using Tinkercad.  With class set up and planning done ahead of the lesson, this can be completed in one class period. 

Students will use their animal sketches and notes from the last art class to generate ideas and create a 3-D paper hand puppet of the animal they chose to study. Teacher will demonstrate a variety of paper sculpture and folding techniques. Students will use these paper sculpture techniques and choose contrasting colors/shapes to create an expressive hand puppet with big, bold, and expressive elements of art. Some recycled papers will be used to teach recycling and conserving of our paper resources. Fraction folding techniques/terminology will integrate math into this art lesson. This lesson was developed by Nancy McGuire as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Students will collaborate in groups to plan and present a puppet show using their hand puppets and illustrated animal booklets. They will share what they have learned about animals around the globe with their classmates through these puppets and illustrated booklets. Groups will be assigned by the teacher according to their animals' regions/habitats of the world. This lesson will use all the information learned and products created during this unit called "Learning About Animals Around the Globe". This lesson was developed by Nancy McGuire as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Students will learn about animals around the globe through growing awareness, research, and sharing of their perspectives about animals and their particular habitats. In this first introductory lesson, students will listen to discussion, view images, and then research animals from various regions of the world using internet images and an assortment of animal books provided at their work tables. After the class discussion and individual study of resources, students will choose one animal as a focus and become familiar with its physical characteristics, habitat, and fun facts to share during a future lesson. Students will then use drawing paper and pencil to render quick sketches of their animal showing its physical characteristics. These sketches will be used during the next art lesson when students will create a 3-D paper puppet of their animal. This lesson was developed by Nancy McGuire as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Students will use their notes, sketches, and paper hand puppet from the previous lessons in this unit to write and illustrate a booklet about their animal and the global region where it lives/lived.  Students will understand the correlation between art and literacy as they create a short booklet about their animal and its habitat. Students will prepare to share these short stories with their peers in the form of a collaborative puppet show when they have completed their illustrated booklets. This lesson was developed by Nancy McGuire as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Students will determine the central message, lesson, or moral of “The Stone Cutter”.  Students will recount key details of the text in a sequenced order and explain how those key details communicate the author’s message through a class discussion. Students will read a text independently and demonstrate their understanding by designing motivational posters that include the central message, lesson, or moral (life lesson) of the text. Students will speak clearly and in complete sentences at an understandable pace when using recounting to share relevant details of the text. Students will also illustrate the moral of The Lion and The Mouse.