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Arts on the Go - Educational Outreach

Welcome to The Center for the Art's 4th year of "Arts on the Go," created by the Center's staff , along with design consultant, Thomas Hannon, and academic support from James Amaral at Bennett Elementary School. We are pleased to be able to reach out to many more school children than ever this year. There will be 2 modules which will circulate among 20 schools throughout the 2008-2009 school year. Each school will have a module for approximately 2 weeks.

Each module is a self-contained interactive exhibit, which enables the Center for the Arts and the program's sponsor,  SCIENCEPORT, Northern Virginia's Science Center to take the art room directly into the school, while reflecting and supporting specific 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade science, math and art Standards of Learning. Our goal is to enrich the curriculum by adding an artistic element and giving students creative hands-on activities to complement science and math lessons they are learning in the classroom. Each module measures about 6.5' high by 12' wide and comprises three bookcase type walls which stand alone.

Habitats Module

The theme of the Habitats module is environments that support a diversity of plants and animals who share a wide range of resources. There are 6 activities included with this module, which can be covered by a class in about an hour. The activities are:

1. Flower Drawing Activity – adaptable to younger or older students
2. Butterfly Habitat & Metamorphosis Book
3. Flower Floor Puzzle (shown below to the right)
4. Strawberry Field Mural (shown above)
5. Dioramas  (shown to the right)
6. Tropical Rain Forest puzzle (below left)

Instructions and materials for each activity are in the trunk along with activity pieces. Click here for teachers instructions.

Weather Module

The emphasis of the Weather module includes discussing, examining and measuring the exciting environmental elements that make this world such a wonderful place in which to live! There are seven activities included.

Activities

1. Weather Word Finder
   
2. Create a Weather Character & Tale
   
3. Design & Fly a Paper Airplane
4. Graph the Conditions
5. Weather Map Activity
6. Trees and the Seasons
7. The Water Cycle

Instructions for each activity are included along with activity pieces. If you would like to view the Teacher's Instructions, click here.

Habitats Schedule - 2008 - 2009

Weather Schedule  - 2008 - 2009