Teacher Created Lessons

The 2020-21 training year included support for teachers learning to create their own integrated lessons.  Here are links to those.
Our Places in Space (TK-3) Students explore color mixing and their places in space (from home, to community to solar system) and demonstrate their understanding through their choice of artistic medium.  
​Created by Sara Gamble Link
My Family/Mi Familia (1): Students consider the characters, setting and plot of an event in their family's life and represent it using pencil, oil pastels, water colors, sharpies, colored pencils, painted paper, yarn or photos.  Created by Melissa Bergmann  Link
Abstract Memory (2) Students study Sonja Delaunay, Pablo Picasso and Jacob Lawrence and use a memory from their lives to create a piece of abstract art. They reflect on their work through writing.  
​Created by Sophia Pelafigue.  Link 
Emotions (2): Students learn how to express their emotions through the use of artwork using body scans.  This builds self-awareness and social-awareness.
Created by Raquel Haller Link
Urban, Rural, and Suburban (2) Students learn what urban, rural, and suburban environments are by reading art, sorting activities and then creating their own drawing, painting, sculpture.   Created by April Hubner Link
Your Place in Space (2/3) Students learn about the world in which they live and then create a project to show where their place in space is.
​Created by Hawkins Link
The Keeping Quilt (2/3) Students read the art and text of “The Keeping Quilt “ by Patricia Polacco,  discuss family traditions, memories, and quilts. Students create a quilt square representing a family tradition or memory to contribute to a classroom quilt. Created by Robann Hill and Jenny Johnson  Link
Fairy Tales (3): Students write and create a fairy tale and make a  Adobe Spark Video based on their tale.
Created by Mrs. Duran Link
Fortunately The Milk Time Travel Machine (3): Students read Fortunately the Milk, then envision and create their own 2D or 3D time travel machine.  Created by Michelle Raabe, Clhoe Rojas, Danielle Taylor Link
Human Impacts: Students Making A Difference (3): 
​Students create an Adobe Spark to encourage their fellow classmates to make a positive impact on the environment. Students research the problem and seek a solution that  peers could do from home or school.
​Created by Alexandria Curry Link
Alien Animal Adaptations (3) Students use text and pictures to understand the purpose of animal adaptations, followed by creating an alien animal art project with adaptations described in a written report.  
​Created by Ford Link
Found Objects Sculpture: Journey Toward Appreciation of Others (3) 
​Students create a found object sculpture to represent their journey to appreciation of others. Each layer of the sculpture represents a stage of this journey.
​Created by LeeAnn Gibson Link
View of the Watershed (3)
After completing a research project on an animal of the Eel River Watershed, students draw a picture of the watershed from their animal's perspective.  Created by Mary Lou Willits Link
Birds: Adaptation for Survival (3) Students create a habitat and  build a bird with adaptations to help it survive in that habitat.  Created by Pierce, Bennett, Klein.  Link 
Novel-based Board Games (4) Students create an artistic board game based on a choice novel that they read.
​Created by Rebekah Horvath, Melika Huneke, Heidi Conzelmann Link
Acrostic Poems with Weather Words (4)
Students brainstorm weather words and create Acrostic poems.  Created by Margaret Normoyle Link
Mission Perspective (4) By creating a diptych of two views of a California mission and a two-voice poem, students connect the perspectives of California Native Tribes and the Spanish missionaries who settled in this state.  Created by Jen Code, Bethany Ibbitson, Jesse Wheeler  Link
Native American Narrative (4) Students research a CA Tribe, create characters and add sensory details. They read the artwork The Star People, create watercolor landscapes, and present their stories and art through Adobe Spark Video.  
​Created by Holly Sherman Link
Character Comparison to Self Mask Project (4+) Students create a face mask in which the outside of the mask symbolizes a character from literature and the inside shows symbolic similarities between the student and the character.  Created by Grooms, McClelland  Link
History of Me (4/5) 
​Students use the elements of poetry to tell a story they learned about their family and present the story in Adobe Spark Video.  
​Created by Whitney Ayers and Meredith Stenberg Link
Two Voices/One Landscape (4/5) Students create a two-voice poem and an image of a natural landscape.  The poem is written on a transparency which overlays their original landscape painting to compare and contrast the goals and values of different historical groups in the context of their views of a landscape. Created by Cathleen McCarthy.  Link
Symbolic Sculpture Project (5) Students create a symbolic sculpture to represent one of their own positive character traits.  Created by Tracy Benbow, Andrea Yip  Link
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Character/Event Change (5): Students change a character or event in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe to show how this change would change the story.  They present their concept  using Adobe Spark or an oil pastel picture with a descriptive writing piece. Created by Dawn Strom Link
Personal Narrative Mosaic (5+)  Students create a glass tile mosaic to represent a personal narrative Created by Stoll Link
Archipelago Project (6): Students create a 3D Island to demonstrate understanding of various concepts.
Created by Zach Lehner.  Link 
Ekphrastic Poetry (7/8) Student write poetry in response to works of art.  
​Created by Joleen Jessen Link
Digital Self-Portrait (7/8) Students develop an awareness of themselves, choose images that represent their interests, family & cultural background, memories, characters and/or feelings.  They create a self-portrait using in-direct and symbolic images. Created by Soonok Park Link