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Students submit
artwork to the Echo Foundation
Hugh Morton's Visit to CCDS
Joel Sartore's Visit to CCDS

Click here for your environmental reading pleasure!
submitted by Karen
Oldham and Chris Gawle
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Fine Arts

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Eiko And Koma: A People in
Dance Project- submitted by Mayreese Koraly
Charlotte Country Day School, U.S.
- Description: Biography of Eiko and Koma; describing
the natural elements of their dances.
- Proposed Age Level: 14-19
- Power Point: Eiko And Koma
- Printable Version:
- Contact: Mayreese Koraly
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Computer Graphics -
Environmental Projects - Mr. Murphy
Trees
Rainforest
Destruction - Cory Morrison
Nature is an Awesome Thing
This Beautiful Land
- Frank Ix
The Endangered
Animals - Cory Hicks
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Native Americans: Sun Dance:
A People in Dance Project - submitted by Mayreese Koraly
Charlotte Country Day School, U.S.
- Description: The Native American Sun Dance and it's
naturalistic elements are described - by Graham Tucker
- Proposed Age Level: 14-19
- Power Point: Native
Americans: Sun Dance
- Contact: Mayreese Koraly
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Monkey
Frieze
(Affenfries), Franz Marc1911, oil on canvas, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
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Animals
in Our Lives and Our Art: A Visual Studies Project - submitted by Meredith
Green
Charlotte Country Day School, U.S.
- Description: Students view artworks that
involve amimals and make pictures that deal with the various aspects of their personal
relationship with animals.
- Proposed Age Level: 14-19
- Power Point: Animals
in Our Lives
- Lesson Outline (printable version): Animals in
Our Lives
- Contact: Meredith Green
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Watercolor
Landscapes - submitted by Frances Furr - Charlotte Country Day School, M.S.
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The Nature of
Native American Dance: A People in Dance Project - submitted by Mayreese Koraly,
Charlotte Country Day School, U.S.
- Description: The nature of Native American Dance -
described by Beth Kentner and Katie Beaver.
- Proposed Age Level: 14-19
- Power Point: The Nature of
Native American Dance
- Contact: Mayreese Koraly
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Landscapes
- submitted by Paul Murphy - Charlotte Country Day School, U.S.
- Description: Students photograph a landscape that is personal to
them.
- Proposed Age Level: 14-19
- Time line/Schedule: Some are ongoing projects, others have a
defined period of time.
- URL: http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/springfield/Interlink/landassign.htm
- Level of Technology Used: Camera
- Contact: Paul Murphy
- End Product(s) for Student: Various
- Longevity: Since 2000
- Languages: All
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Global Arts Projects,
"Painting the Planet"
- Description: "Painting the Planet" encompasses a series
of global art themes linked through technology. The galleries and exhibitions provide a
forum to publish students work and to come to understand the culture and situation of
young artists across the globe. A number of projects collaborate with Painting the Planet.
Among them, Beauty of the Beasts, Colouring our Culture, Global Art: A Sense of Caring,
Super Hero Cartoon Art, Side by Side, and The Folktales Projects.
- Proposed Age Level: 5-19 years old
- Time line/Schedule: Some are ongoing projects, others have a
defined period of time.
- URL: http://www.iearn.org/projects/globlart.html
- Level of Technology Used: E-mail, WWW, newsgroups and WWW forums,
CU-SeeMe
- Contact: iearn@us.iearn.org
- End Product(s) for Student: Various
- Supporting Organization: iEARN
- Longevity: Since 1996
- Languages: All. Students write in their own languages. Receiving
schools are responsible for translating using community volunteers or other local
resources.
Source: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/guide/international/index.html |
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Global Children's
Music Project
- Description: Global Children's Music Project works to to collect
authentic "traditional" songs, words, cultural information, pictures of culture
and national dress, traditional and non-traditional instruments, simple instructions for
games and dances, eventually digital samples for sound modules of instruments, and
teacher/student related resource links for building a virtual music library. Participants
are asked to submit at least one song, (either by MP3, .WAV or audio cassette format) with
as much cultural information as possible, an identifying picture (logo) for the song, the
written words, a loose translation in English (not to be sung in English) and other
information possible for the website page.
- Proposed Age Level: All
- Curriculum Focus: Creative Arts, Social Studies, Language Arts
- End Products for Students: Website
- Time line/Schedule: Sept 1, 2000-May 30, 2001
- URL: http://www.music.fsu.edu/
- Contact Person: Carolyn Fulton, USA fulton_c@otto.cmr.fsu.edu
- Level of Technology Used: E-mail, WWW Forums and Site
- Supporting Organization: iEARN-USA
- Longevity: 1 Year
- Language(s) of communication: All
Source: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/guide/international/index.html |
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Joys of Music Project
- Description: The main goal of the project is to organize all
submissions chronologically in order to create a short history of Music, asking the
participants to indicate the epoch to which they refer. Participants may write short
essays about their favorite composer or styles in music- baroque, romantic, and modern, or
their favorite contemporary music group or singer, about new styles such as: house,
hip-hop, techno, punk, heavy metal, rap, reggae or pop. Also, any essay about national or
folk music is welcome.
- Proposed Age Level: All
- Curriculum Focus: Creative Arts, Social Studies, Language Arts
- End Products for Students: WWW Site
- Time line/Schedule: October 1, 2000 - April 1, 2001
- URL: http://www.geocities.com/petrudumitru/mysound/
- Contact Person: Maria Dumitru, Romania MariaDumitru@netscape.net
- Level of Technology Used: E-mail, WWW Forums
- Supporting Organization:iEARN-Romania
- Longevity: 2 Years
- Language(s) of communication: English and Romanian
Source: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/guide/international/index.html |
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School World Culture
Centre
- Description: This project enables schools to write, describe and
promote cultures in their part of the world by becoming involved with their local culture
and traditions. Students use basic research skills and write about (and provide if
possible) samples of music, folklore, cooking and games so that other schools can
participate. School World encourages the entire school to become involved with this
project. School World Tek teachers are available for those with limited experience.
- Proposed Age Level: All
- Timeline/Schedule: Ongoing
- URL: http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/culture/cultone.html
- Contact: E-Mail School World with a note of intention. Once
registered, each school will be provided with a selected code number.
- End Product(s) for Student: Virtual participation and publication
on the websites
- Supporting Organization: School World Category: Music and Graphic
Arts Curriculum Focus: Culture Geographical Location/Origin: U.S.A. and Australia
- Longevity: New project for School World
- Languages: English, various
Source: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/guide/international/index.html |
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Kids' Space
- Description: Kids Gallery. Students submit original art work to
share with other classroom. Some means of digitizing the art work (flatbed scanner,
digital camera, or original digital artwork) is also needed for this project.
- Age Level: Ages 8-16 years old
- End Product: Publication on their website
- Timeline/Schedule: Ongoing
- URL: http://www.kids-space.org
- Contact: Submit to KidSpace
- Supporting Organization: NTTEAST (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corp)
- Longevity: Since 1995
- Languages: English, Japanese, and others
Source: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/guide/international/index.html |
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