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Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.5 No.3 March 2008 Cover Story by LaVerne Hamlin Show Me The Money!!! If you can develop a lesson plan for your class, then you can write a grant. Here's how! Harry & Rosemary Wong Effective Teaching Coaching is six times more effective than class-size reduction Columns » A System Is Superior To Talent Marv Marshall » What Writing Isn’t Cheryl Sigmon » The Busy Educator's Monthly Five Marjan Glavac » Privacy in a Technological Age Rob Reilly » 10 Tips for Difficult Parents Barbara & Sue Gruber » Problem-Based Learning Hal Portner » Understanding Autism Leah Davies Articles » Spaceship Toilets » March 2008 Writing Prompts » Internet Assisted Interactive Classroom » Our Civility Footprint » First Grade Family Reading Night Meets Speed Dating » Your Students Are Watching, Listening, and Learning » Teachers Lounge - To Go or Not to Go? » Retirement Guide for Teachers » Daily Lessons: Humility Features » Chatboard Poll: So What About Homework? » Teachers.Net Craft Favorite: Arrow to the Sun » Featured Lessons: March 2008 » Video Bytes: Merit Pay; Tai Chi; Asperger's and More » Today Is... Daily Commemoration for March 2008 » Live on Teachers.Net: March 2008 » The Lighter Side of Teaching » Editor's Pick: Picturing America Program » Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes for Teachers » What Do You Want In A Co-Op Teacher? » Newsdesk: Events & Opportunities for Teachers Advertisement The Teachers.Net Gazette is a collaborative project published by the Teachers.Net community Kathleen Alape Carpenter Editor in Chief Cover Story by LaVerne Hamlin Effective Teaching by Harry & Rosemary Wong Contributors this month: Dr. Marvin Marshall; Cheryl Sigmon; Barbara & Sue Gruber; Marjan Glavac; Dr. Rob Reilly; Barb S. HS/MI; Ron Victoria; Brian Hill; Leah Davies; Hal Portner; Tim Newlin; Barb Gilman; James Wayne; P.R. Guruprasad; Todd Nelson; Addies Gaines; Pat Hensley; Alan Haskvitz; Joy Jones; and YENDOR. Submissions: click for Submission Guidelines Advertising: contact Bob Reap Subscribe for free home delivery Email: State: - Select State (required) - Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington DC Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming -- Canada United Kingdom Australia/NZ Other Featured Advertiser Links FEATURED ADVERTISER LINKS

Featured Craft Project Teachers.Net Favorite Featured Craft Project: Arrow To The Sun Activity By Barb Gilman From the Teachers.Net Archive March 1, 2008 The warm colors of nature and the book Arrow to the Sun inspire this Art activity brought back to light from the March 2000 Gazette. Project: Art activity using the book Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott. Objective: Warm Colors, Angular Shapes, Straight Lines Medium: crayons Materials: 8 1/2 by 11 inch white construction paper, 3 warm color crayons Background: When looking around the natural world, artists may use colors that give a warm feel. These colors may include red-violet, red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange and yellow. Lines may be straight. Shapes may be angular. Procedure: The teacher will begin the lesson by reading the story Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott. Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale by Gerald McDermott $7.99 from Amazon.com More information   While reading the story, take time to point out the beautiful illustrations. After reading the story, discuss what colors and shapes were used in the story. What colors are considered warm? What makes a line straight? What makes a shape angular? At this point, each student picks out 3 warm color crayons to use. Each child is then given a white piece of construction paper. The student begins by drawing a circle, anywhere on the page, with one of their warm color crayons. This circle may be in the middle, the right or on the left side of the paper. From this circle, they will draw lines radiating from the circle. They will then fill up the whole area with lines, angular shapes and designs. The goal is that the sun and each ray will be filled with unique designs. At this point, the teacher may refer back to the book to show the type of designs Gerald McDermott used. Technique to explore: When coloring very hard and fast, the students may notice that their colors 'sing'! After the project is complete and no white space is left on the paper, the student may take a tissue and rub it over the entire paper to make it very shiny. Optional: While the students are working on their project, Native American music can be played. Or Native American storyteller tape, such as The Boy who Lived with the Bear as told by Joe Bruchac. » More Gazette articles... Discussion for: Arrow To The Sun Activity Teachers.Net Craft Favorite (March 2008 Gazette) Be the first to add a comment - CLICK HERE Related Resources & Discussions on Teachers.Net... Teachers.Net Lesson Bank Arts & Craft Chatboard Kindergarten Chatboard Primary Elementary Chatboard Teachers.Net Project Center Teachers.Net Mailrings

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