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In reviewing my students on geometry concepts, I found students were not relating simple geometric shapes to objects and pictures around them. A TN Curriculum Framework Standard for Visual Art, Grades 6-8, relates to children needing opportunities to look at and talk about art. Children need to learn to respond to the Aesthetic qualities found in art. A learning expectation for this standard states, students will respond to a variety of skills, process, and techniques used in works of art which will be meet by this unit. In teaching this unit, the math standard for Math, Spatial Sense and Geometric Concepts, .curriculum must include problems which require students to explore geometric properties. and its learning objective, articulate geometric properties and relationships such as congruence, similarity, parallelism, perpendicularity, and symmetry will also be addressed. This unit gives students the opportunity to use Encarta to research information on Picasso, addressing the Computer Technology standard (6); students will use technology as a tool to conduct and evaluate research and to communicate effectively information and ideas. The learning expectation for this standard, use a variety of computer technologies to collaborate with peers and experts, present, access, analyze, interpret, synthesize, apply and communicate information in content areas is also encompassed. Upon completion of this unit, students will have a different perception of geometry and see that it can be found in the everyday world.
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