Subjects:  Health, Science, Art

Learner Outcomes:

    The student will:

• Demonstrate sketching and drawing skills to develop a poster design.
• Create a poster message promoting the use of recycling to help the environment.

Materials:

• Hand-made paper from lesson 2.
• Markers, crayons, and other art supplies for poster

• Computers with Internet access
• Digital Camera
• Scanner
• Office 97, PowerPoint

     Allow time for the collecting of materials at the end of the class period.

Procedures:

• The students will use handmade paper from previous lesson.
• Working with partner, gather necessary materials, work quietly, and clean work area when finished.
• The final activity will include scanning the posters and creating a class PowerPoint presentation.
• Students will scan their posters as they finish and save to disk.
• After posters are all scanned, teacher will assist students in inserting into a PowerPoint Presentation.  This will involve a lot of teacher assistance, since teaching how to do PowerPoint is not part of the actual this lesson instruction.
• Post completed posters, with environmental message relating to recycling, around the school.

    Teachers should determine pairing of students so students with special needs will be assisted during lesson activities.

Enrichment Activities:
    Students may view posters made by other students at 98 Posters and Recycle Posters.
      Additional Art/Recycle activities can be found at Trash Matcher.

Evaluation/Assessment:

    Checklist
    Presentation of poster
    PowerPoint Presentation

West Virginia Instructional Goals and Objectives:

    Art

• Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas 5.18, 6.17
• Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others 5.26, 6.2

• Technology 5.79,  6.98

• Technology 5.86, 6.160

• A, D, E

• 98 Posters
• Recycle Posters

Carol Durnell
Jo Anne Fenoglietto
Saralie Sheets

Gihon Elementary School