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Area Project

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Find the area of a stained glass window. You will need to find the area of rectangles, circles inside rectangles and the area between. You will also need to calculate the price of the materials needed to make the stained glass window.Link to Google DocSome images and content were obtained from Open Up Resources: Download for free at openupresources.org. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Julie Stoker

Modeling Water Masses

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Objective: Students will conduct an experiment in order to determine how temperature and salinity affect the density of water. This assignment will ask you to conduct a simple experiment to determine how temperature and salinity affect the density of water while filling out a worksheet.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Amy Pace

Science Video Project

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This is a summative assessment that can be used to determine how well students learned a specific concept.  This project can also be used to help students review for end of year finals. Students create a 3-5 minute video teaching a science concept that was learned.  Each student or group of students can have a different concept.  Pick a day to hold a film festival where you show the videos and eat popcorn.  

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Tiffany Swenson

Painting Explorations - Final Series Assignment

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Learning Objective: I will start the process of creating a series of paintings that show my interests and strengths as an artist.Your final project for this class will be painting a series of paintings. You will be working on this project for 3 weeks (approximately 14 hours). This week you will be planning out and deciding on what form your series will take and begin your paintings.Make sure you are painting a series of works you are interested in. You will be creating a series of 3 to 5 paintings that all have unified elements.This week, you will be coming up with the idea for your final series. You will submit an explanation of your series and also images of your preliminary sketches and begin writing your artist statement.Before you submit this creative work ask yourself a few questions; these are all questions to consider before you turn work in to be graded:Ask yourself if you spent enough time to make this work the best that it can be, or did you just rush in the end to get it done?If you just rushed in the end, what are you going to do differently next week?Really self evaluate your work and your process of working. What can you do to improve? What does improvement look like?Did you take into account the different resources and artists/designers we have learned about in this class?

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan

Author: Kara Aina

Fashion Design: Design Details

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Students will learn about the design details of clothing.  This Lesson includes a google slide presentation and guided notes. An understanding of design details will help give students a foundation as they begin to sketch fashion illustrations throughout the course. This lesson was written in accordance with Utah State Standards for Fashion Design Studio (Standard 1 Objective 2b).

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Shanna Haws