BRING THE ADIRONDACKS INTO YOUR CLASSROOM
ADIRONDACK CHALLENGES
| Adirondack Rivers in Picture and song Print This Challenge |
||
| Grade: K - 4th Grade Class: Art & Music |
|
 |
| NYS Content Area Standard: The Arts: Standard 1: Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Arts Standard 4: Understanding the Cultural Dimensions and Contributions of the Arts |
NYS Interdisciplinary Standard: |
Adirondack Curriculum Content Area: Culture & The ArtsNatural History |
| Performance Indicators: Art 1: experiment and create art works, in a variety of mediums (drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, video, and computer graphics), based on a range of individual and collective experiences (a) Art 4: look at a variety of art works and artifacts from diverse cultures of the United States and identify some distinguishing characteristics (b) |
||
| Keywords: the natural environment, animals, Adirondack activities | ||
| The Challenge: |
| Investigative Question or Issue: What are some of the most beautiful and precious elements of our local landscape? How can we represent them in music and the visual arts? What do our region's natural beauty, wildlife, and activities have in common with other regions? |
| Context:
Art and music teachers are encouraged to creatively work with the classroom teacher on this challenge. |
| The Challenge:
In art class, with the help of the teacher, view and discuss paintings from the Hudson River School, especially those of the Adirondack, Lake George, and Upper Hudson regions.Discover the mountains, rivers, lakes,and cloud formations similar to those we see in Lake Luzerne and Hadley. Notice the use of "atmospheric perspective",composition and placement of elements to create foreground, middleground, and background. In music class, learn a song from the Appalachian Mountains. Change the geographical words to turn the song into an Adirondack song. Visit the Upper Hudson River and observe the "white" water and the surrounding mountains. In art class," illustrate" the words of the song by finding vivid images and making colorful pictures using craypas and the principles observed in the paintings from the Hudson River School painters. Find other ''water" songs (extrapolating from the importance of the global water cycle to create rivers) such as "Singing in the Rain" and " Que LLueva". Perform the Adirondack River Song and other water songs in concert and display the pictures . An Arts Forever Wild Project |
| Quality Standards: |
Group discussion and observations re Hudson River School painters Learn to sing Appalacian Mountain folksong, then change words to fit Adirondacks Complete 2 worksheets based on words of song and on site observation of the Hudson River Perform Adirondack song and 2 other "water" songs in concert Illustrate words of the Adirondack song and display pictures |
| Product Quality Checklist Print This Checklist |
||
| Standard/Criteria: | Points Possible: | Points Awarded: |
Art/ELA: student choses "vivid" verbal image from the song to illustrate | ||
Art: student incorporated elements of mountains, river, sky, animals, and trees in picture | ||
Art: student used some form of perspective in the picture | ||
Art: student used craypas (or other media) appropriately and vividly | ||
Art/ELA: student incorporated text being illustrated into the picture | ||
Art: student's representation of trees, animals, mountains , sky, etc. demonstrate a relatively sophisticated level of observation | ||
Music: | ||
This Challenge has not yet received any recommendations.
This Challenge has not yet received any comments.