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Title: Puppets for Peace by Katharine Ayer and Mary O'Brien Please feel free to contact us katharine_ayer@maranacook.org mary_obrien@maranacook.org Overview:

The inspiration for this team teaching project came from the book Listen to the Wind, by Greg Mortenson. The beautiful collage illustrations by Susan L. Roth combined with the incredible story of friendship, helping those in need, and peace is a wonderful starting point for art, social studies, reading, writing, and technology integration. The main focus of our integration will be learning about a different country and culture, retelling a story, creating collage background and puppet characters, and acting out the retelling. Technology will be integrated with the use of VoiceThreads, Google Earth, web resources, a document camera, and videotaping.

Our Complete Lesson Plan with Standards and Directions is located at the end of this page.

Outline:

Pretests

1. A simple survey to get base knowledge. 2. Get opinions and ideas from students about the geology, culture, and people of Pakistan. Use Voice Thread (a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images and allows students to leave comments) to show pictures of the geology, culture, and people of Pakistan. Students will be asked to respond to these opened ended questions: What do you notice? What do you think? What do you wonder? Click here to visit our VoiceThread

Introduction of Collage:

1. Discussion about Collage: Using an assortment of books with collage illustrations and a Document Camera, students will view and discuss the elements of collage. What is collage? What does the word mean? Why do artists and illustrators use collage? Students will then create a mini collage to experience the important steps in the process.

Introduction to Book:

Co-teaching Lesson 1: Read Listen to Wind

Watc h Video - on website (see list below) FInd area on Google Earth - discuss geological features and effect on life. Students will write their reactions, feelings, and questions regarding the introduction to this story.

Co-teaching Lesson 2: Reread Listen to the Wind in art - focus on art / collage Use a document camera to project the pages for students to see the art work in the book. Ask open ended discussion questions: What do you see? What do you notice? What materials did the artist use to create these collages?

Co-teaching Lesson 3 and 4: Making the Puppets Parent volunteers assisted with hot glue and cutting fabric.

-- Co-teaching Lesson 5 - 8: Collage Scenery and Script Make the five collage scenery backgrounds as small groups while other students write the script. 1st Mountains, 2nd Mountains, Bridge , Village , and School





Co-teach Lesson 9: Practice with Puppets and Background

Co- teach Lesson 10: Video taping

--- Co- teach Lesson 11: Closure Performance - with audience of other students and parents Charitable follow up - Pennies for Peace

Final Assessment Redo the survey we did at the beginning and also add an open ended self-reflection.

Sources

Websites: Three Cups of Tea Website: http://www.threecupsoftea.com/

Susan L. Roth’s Website: http://www.susanlroth.com/listen_to_the_wind.htm

Central Asia Institute: https://www.ikat.org/

Pennies for Peace: http://www.penniesforpeace.org/

Three Cups of Tea Music Video (sung by Amira Mortenson) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYxbmissCg8&feature=related

Pennies for Peace Curriculum - this video will give students a glimpse into the home life of children in Pakistan and Afghanistan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F_1bIUgGcI&feature=channel Videos are also available that focus on food, geography, celebrations, play, and school.

Google Earth http://www.google.com/earth/index.html

“Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean.” Students love exploring this free program.

Voice Thread http://voicethread.com/ VoiceThread is a collaborative web based multimedia tool that allows sharing through conversations. It allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice, text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). These group conversations are collected from friends, students and colleagues and saved in one place.

Document Camera This tool has replaced the old opaque projector as a tool to capture and display images to a large audience. In addition, they can magnify and project the image of actual 3D objects.

Flip Video Camera http://www.theflip.com/en-us/ Much of the video taping was done by the students using these fun and easy cameras.

BOOKS:

__ Listen to the Wind __ The Story of Dr. Greg and Three Cups of Tea By Greg Mortenson & Susan L. Roth ISBN 978-0-8037-3058-8

Other Books with Collage:



Other Books About Culture:



Complete Lesson Plan with Standards and Directions: