LESSON PLAN SAMPLE ADAPTATION for TEACHERS
"Art at the Heart of a Hero"
For GRADES Pre-school, K-4, 5-8, 9-12, College:
Students of all ages are invited to participate.
Age appropriate Theme songs from ARISE Kids Music CD may be ordered.
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PHASE I of the ARISE CURRICULUM: SHAPE I: The Heart=Rhythm
The premise and purpose of the ARISE (A-Round-In-Sound-Enterprise) curriculum defines and develops the shaping forces of music to inspire and integrate the educational enrichment of all art and human communication among peoples of all ages, backgrounds, and cultures throughout the world. ARISE will adapt this process to help the MYHERO student discover that what is essential to creating music is also essential to the character of any Hero and can be expressed through visual art activities.
Exploration and Visual Art expression through the eyes of ARISE, prompt each participant to find out that the HERO is not only in the world outside, but also very much alive within. The ARISE exercises serve as a way to wake up, cultivate, and inspire the essential character inside each student as well as recognize the HERO in the world around them.
OBJECTIVES:
Beginning with the first dimension of the ARISE program, THE HEART, we find the pulse of life, the beat of the drum, the birth of rhythm, without which there is no song, no life, no movement. It is equally true that without HEART there is no HERO.
ARISE invites participants into the many aspects of the HERO’S HEART during the first phase of this program.
Artwork will be selected and exhibited in rotation at the MY HERO VIRTUAL GALLERY site. |
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RESOURCES/MATERIALS:
Teachers are free to rely on their own libraries or access the immense directory of hero stories, biographies, and other source material available at www.myhero.com.
Students need standard art supplies, empty containers (oat/coffee), beans, percussion instruments. ARISE provides original theme songs age appropriate for participating grade levels at the My Hero Virtual Gallery.
ARISE ACTIVITIES and PROCEDURES:
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Ask the students, “Where does music come from?” Though many responses may be correct, the original source of all music and all living movement is the heartbeat.
- Invite students to feel their own heart beat and express that beat by clapping their hands and applying the same beat to a variety of surfaces eventually exploring various drums and percussion instruments.
- Encourage the students to share their various heart beats in similar fashion, creating a casual performance exchange of heartbeats
- Provide students with materials to create and decorate their own homemade drums and percussion instruments.
- Discuss various heroes that represent the different categories offered in each month’s suggested topics of ART at the HEART of a HERO.
- Ask each student to reflect on what heroes they identify with, what heroes they see in their own hearts.
- Draw, paint, or visually depict the chosen subject that reflects the topic discussed.
- Access ARISE theme song offered to play as background or to learn.
- Digitally photograph artwork and send into the virtual gallery at www.myhero.com/gallery for gallery selection.
- Once a topic or subject is expressed visually, write stories describing heroes.
- Recite or perform these stories for each other.
- Apply varying rhythms to recitations. Rap heart hero stories to each other
