By Lee Sappingfield, September 6, 2006
- High School
- Graphic Design
- Language Arts
- Social Studies
Common Core Standards
Anchor standards for Speaking and Listening:
Comprehension and Collaboration:
Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:
Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.
Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
Anchor standards for Language:
Conventions of Standard English:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
enhance their non-verbal communication skills, by designing a treasure map that will be interpreted by a fellow student
increase their vocabulary, by researching design and architectural terms
increase their mapping skills, which they will use to create and read maps
increase their technology skills by following written instructions, in order to create a user account to comment to the OE ENVD discussion site
- 17"X22" Manila paper
- crayons and pencils
- Students will be divided into two groups.
- Students will look at various maps on the web, to see what important traits are found on maps, such as a legend, compass, color, landmarks, etc.
- Each group will take a tour of three separate sites of the school where hidden treasures (design and architecture vocabulary words) are placed. Students will take notes and make drawings in order to help them create a map from their classroom to that location. Tell students to keep in mind that another student will have to follow their map in order to find the treasures.
- When students get back in the classroom, they will be given a piece of 17"X22" manila paper, markers, crayons, and pencils. Using their notes and sketches, students will create a detailed colored map to the three treasure sites.
- Teachers will randomly exchange maps between the two groups.
- Each individual will need to follow the map created by a fellow student, collecting the treasures and following the instructions written on each treasure.
- The instructions will tell students to go back to the classroom, log on to the computer and sign up on the Environmental Design Discussion Page. The treasures will tell students to look up a specific architecture or design vocabulary word using the Internet. They will then post their vocabulary word on the discussion page, creating a classroom vocabulary list.