Dreams Can Come True

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Dreams Can Come True

Description:

Lesson about careers in which students create a self-portrait collage representing how they will look as an adult in their chosen career, research the requisite training and education , and write how they plan to attain their dream career.

Education Levels:

1, 2, 3, Kindergarten, Preschool education

Subject:

Careers, Writing (composition), Visual Arts

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Beneficiary:

Students

Online provider:

Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

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Keywords:

Careers, Jobs, Self-portraits

Mediator:

Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

Design Exchange

Contributor:

Leslie Lami-Reed

Is Part Of:

http://dx.cooperhewitt.org/resources/

Language:

English

General

Essential Resources:

12X18 colored construction paper; 6X8 variety of skin colored construction paper; 5X7 tag board OVAL for template to draw face; 10X12 wallpaper scraps and colored paper; Scrap box with variety of papers and cloth; Scissors; Glue, Pencils; Erasers; Paper and pencils; Mounting paper to mount autobiography and hang with paper portrait; Additional art materials to complete portrait

Learning Time:

Four 50-minute class periods

Learning Outcomes:

Broad Correlation

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (2010)

Writing Standards

Text Types and Purposes

2. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

Broad Correlation

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (2010)

Writing Standards

Text Types and Purposes

1. Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.

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