• Create a picture or drawing using a computer graphics program like "Paint," a work of art by hand such as a painting, piece of sculpture, take a photograph or use any other visual medium and save your work in a gif, jpeg.
• Write a sentence or more describing your Art work.
• Write a "Diamond Poem" that has to do with your work of art, following this pattern:

A noun  Two adjectives  A complete sentence  Two nouns  A verb

Activities:

• Students will learn how to open the project page and how to use KidSpace
• They will open a personal page at: http://65.42.153.210/kidspace/start.cfm?HoldNode=14298&HoldNav=6230
• They will draw their picture
• They will post the picture
• They will write a paragraph describing the drawing and the reasons of their choice
• They will write a poem in English following the given pattern
• They will write a second poem in French following the given pattern
• They will learn how to use the Internet
• They will use online dictionaries to find useful words
• Finally they will write and post comments

CURRICULUM LINKS

Technology:

• Updating, revising and maintaining web pages to ensure quality
• Using appropriate vocabulary to ensure a clear presentation of text
• Locating a web site using searching skills
• Making a personal page
• Design graphic

Language:

• Practising grammar and syntax in a real situation
• Increasing vocabulary
• Creating dictionaries of words and phrases in other languages
• Developing strategies for overcoming language barriers
• Engaging in languages other than the native tongue
• Communicating ideas clearly

Art:

• Analyzing and comparing web pages to find examples of good design
• Analyzing colors and their meaning in a web page
• Creating graphical illustrations to add to web pages

Skills:

• Evaluating reliability of online information
• Identifying strategies to deal with unexpected situations
• Locating outside support for the common development plans
• Make informed choices
• Empathy (developing positive social skills.)
• Self-awareness
• Comparing and finding what is shared with others and how to link to knowledge other participants create and evaluate it.

PROJECT EVALUATION
Evaluation will be asked for:

• ICT, the multimedia lab.
• English and French: the use of a foreign language in a project
• Self-learning

The project is online at: http://65.42.153.210/kidspace/start.cfm?HoldNode=14298&HoldNav=6230
Graziella Seveso