Adirondack Curriculum
Project -  Arts Forever Wild
NYS Content Area Standard
The Arts 1. Create, perform, participate in the arts
CDOS
ELA
Health, PE, Home & Careers
LOTE
MST 4. Science
Social Studies
NATIONAL STANDARDS
- Arts: Understand the Relationship of Visual
Arts and Music to History & Culture; Sings; Improvises; Understands
& Applies Media, Techiques, & Processes
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Title: Adirondack Rivers in Picture and Song
Grade Level: K-4th Grade
Author: Carol Pines, Hadley-Luzerne CSD
Email: nazul@aol.com or pinesc@hlcs.org
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Adirondack Curriculum Content Area
_X__ Natural History
___ Human History
_X__ Culture & the Arts
___ Government & Civics
___ Economy
___ Health, Recreation & Life Skills |
Investigative Question or Issue: What are some of the
most beautiful and precious elements of our local landscape? How can we
represent them in music and the visual arts? What do our region's
natural beauty, wildlife, and activities have in common with
other regions?
Challenge:
In
art class, with the help of the teacher, view and discuss
paintings from the Hudson River School, especially those of the
Adirondack, Lake George, and Upper Hudson regions.Discover the
mountains, rivers, lakes,and cloud formations similar to those we
see in Lake Luzerne and Hadley. Notice the use of "atmospheric
perspective",composition and placement of elements to create
foreground, middleground, and background.
In music class, learn a song from the Appalachian Mountains. Change the
geographical words to turn the song into an Adirondack song.
Visit the Upper Hudson River and observe the "white" water and
the surrounding mountains.
In art class," illustrate" the words of the song by finding vivid
images and making colorful pictures using craypas and the
principles observed in the paintings from the Hudson River School
painters.
Find other ''water" songs (extrapolating from the importance of the
global water cycle to create rivers) such as "Singing in
the Rain" and " Que LLueva". Perform the Adirondack River Song
and other water songs in concert and display the pictures .
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Quality Standards:
Group
discussion and observations re Hudson River School painters
Learn to sing Appalacian Mountain folksong, then change words to fit
Adirondacks
Complete 2 worksheets based on words of song and on site observation of
the Hudson River
Perform Adirondack song and 2 other "water" songs in concert
Illustrate words of the Adirondack song and display pictures
Examples
of Student Work
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Adapted for the Adirondack
Curriculum Project from
the work of Education By Design TM and Leading EDGE, LLC
©ACP 2002
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