1st Grade Visual Art Training “Your Place or Mine”

1. 1st Grade Visual Art Training“Your Place or Mine” http://www.tnaqua.org/kidsteachers/Animals_programs_list.asp

2. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely. Broad, wholesome, charitable views can not be acquired by vegetating in one’s little corner of earth.” - Mark Twain From Innocents Abroad, 1869

3. Three Visual Art Trainings in 2009-2010 • October 27th • Video-Conference: Tennessee Aquarium: Your Place is Mine with Tyson Ledgerwood • October 28th • ARTSY Training with Nancy Powell or Sandy Goad • January 27th • 1st Grade Level PLC with Denise Young

4. School Wide Art Show 2009-2010 • The winners of the individual school art shows will be framed and displayed downtown atthe Center for the Arts May 1.

5. “The word art, derived from an ancient Indo-European root that means “to fit together,” suggests as much. Art is about fitting things together: words, images, objects, processes, thought, historical epochs.” - Jeffrey J. Schnapp Director of Stanford Humanities Lab Stanford University

6. Hour #1

7. “Hands On” Classroom Lesson #1“Animal Blanket” • Cut out the stencil • Trace shape with black oil pastel. • Add details with stickers: Eyes, toes spots etc. • Add big tissue paper squares to make a colorful blanket. • Cut a frayed edge on both sides of the blanket.

8. Hour #2

9. Video-Conference • Virtual Classroom Lesson • Questions and Answers from Presenter • Sign-up for Video-Conference in your classroom.

10. Animals available for programs • Turtles • Ornate Box Turtle • Alligator Snapping Turtle • Painted Turtle • Snakes & Lizards • Corn snake • Ball Python • Leopard Gecko • Blue-tongue Skink • Amphibians • Giant Marine Toad • Ornate Horned Toad • White’s Tree Frog • African Clawed Frog • Eastern Tiger Salamander • Invertebrates • Curly Hair Tarantula • Emperor Scorpion • African Millipede

11. Amphibians at the Tennessee Aquarium • Surinam toad • Green tree frog • Fire-bellied toad • Northern red salamander • Yonahlossee salamander • Hellbender salamander

12. Birds at the Tennessee Aquarium • Macaroni Penguin • Gentoo Penguin • Hyacinth Macaw • Cedar Waxwing • Rose-Breasted Grosbeak • Dark-Eyed Junco • Hermit Thrush • Tufted Titmouse • Ovenbird • Northern Cardinal • Indigo Bunting • Wood Duck • Hooded Merganser • Eastern Bluebird • Crested Wood Partridge • Mandarin Duck • Yellow-breasted Chat • Eastern Towhee

13. Butterflies at the Tennessee Aquarium • Butterfly • Butterfly Egg • Caterpillar • Pupa

14. Epaulette Shark Brown Banded Bamboo Shark Sand Tiger Shark Black Stingray Southern stingray Bonnethead shark Brook trout Red-bellied piranha Great barracuda Queen trigger Smallmouth bass Tangerine darter Arapaima Black crappie Barrens topminnow Weedy sea dragon Dwarf seahorse Longsnout seahorse Potbelly seahorse Lined seahorse Leafy sea dragon Northern pipefish Coral shrimpfish Blue catfish Paddlefish Lake sturgeon Beluga sturgeon Fish at the Tennessee Aquarium

15. Invertebrates at the Tennessee Aquarium • Giant Pacific Octopus • Pharaoh Cuttlefish • Giant Spider Crab • Emperor Nautilus • Moon Jellyfish • West Coast Sea Nettle

16. Reptiles at the Tennessee Aquarium • American Alligator • Eastern Spiny Soft-shell • Alligator Snapping Turtle • Barbour's Map Turtle • Yellow-Blotched Map Turtle • Timber Rattlesnake • Copperhead • Black-Breasted Leaf Turtle • Yellow Anaconda • Eastern Box Turtle • Green Sea Turtle • Florida Red belly Turtle • Eastern Rat Snake • West African Dwarf Crocodile • Pig-Nosed Turtle • Eastern Mud Turtle

17. Mammals at the Tennessee Aquarium • Otter • Aquarists • Herpetologists • Horticulturists • Aviculturists • Entomologist • Research Biologists • Veterinarian

18. Future Jobs for Students • Aquarists: Aquarium Exhibit Maintenance • Herpetologists: Retiles and Amphibians • Horticulturists: Plants • Aviculturists: Birds • Entomologist: Butterflies • Research Biologists: Wildlife Research • Veterinarian: Wildlife Doctor

19. Hour #3

20. “Hands On” Classroom Lesson #2“Spider Sculpture” • Draw an X in the middle of your base. • Starting in the middle of the X draw a Small, Medium-Sized, and Big Circles. • Trace all your lines with your Glitter Glue. • Let Dry. • Stick a Big, Medium Sized, and Small balls of clay on your toothpick. • Add four legs on each side with joints and feet. • Add eyes. • Place on your web (base).

21. Resource Information • The Tennessee Aquarium website has a printable information on the website that includes many pages of activities. • The website link is: http://www.tnaqua.org/Home.aspx

22. What a 1st Grader Needs to Know about Living Things and Their Environments

23. Living Things and Their Habitats • Do you recognize this big furry fellow? • He’s a polar bear. • He lives near the North Pole. • What’s weather like there? • Brrr! • It’s cold, cold cold! • Look at what’s all around the polar bear: ice, and lots of it. Photo by Ken Whitman

24. Living Things and Their Habitats • The polar bear lives where it’s cold and icy all the time, but he doesn’t seem to mind at all. • Look at him again. • See his thick, furry coat? • With all that thick fur, he stays pretty cozy, even at the North Pole.

25. Living Things and Their Habitats • Now, imagine that the polar bear decides to go on a vacation. • Of course, you and I know that bears don’t take vacations, but let’s pretend. • He goes on a trip to Hawaii. • How do you think he would like it? • What would our big furry friend think of sunny, sandy beaches of Hawaii?

26. Living Things and Their Habitats • Well, if you’ve ever been to the beach, you might like it. • The polar bear can’t take off his fur! • He wouldn't enjoy a trip to warm, sunny Hawaii. • It’s a lovely place, but not for him. • It’s not his habitat.

27. Living Things and Their Habitats • What’s a habitat? • For an animal, a habitat is the place where the animal • Lives • Eats • Sleeps • Makes its home • Has babies • Gets along (mostly) with other animals. • But it’s not just any kind of place. • An animal’s habitat is a special place suited to the animal because the animal is suited to it.

28. Living Things and Their Habitats • The big furry polar bear • Isn’t suited to the warm beach • He gets along fine at the icy North Pole. • A fish that swims in the ocean couldn’t possibly survive in the mountains, could it? • Would a worm that crawls through the moist, rich soil of the forest be happy living in the hot, sandy desert?

29. Living Things and Their Habitats • Different animals live in different habitats. • The way an animal lives has a lot to do with its habitat. • Let’s explore a few habitats and get to know some animals living in them.

30. The Forest Habitat • Imagine you’re taking a walk through a beautiful forest. • Oak and maple trees stand tall around you. • Their highest branches reach upward and form a leafy canopy, which makes it cool and shady for you as you walk along below.

31. The Forest Habitat • What’s that tap-tap-tapping sound? • It’s a bird called a woodpecker. • Woodpeckers peck into the trunks of old trees, looking for insects to eat. • The woodpecker lives in this forest habitat.

32. The Forest Habitat • A squirrel also lives in this forest habitat. • Squirrels build nests in the tree branches and gathers acorns from the oak trees in the fall. • Pew! What could that awful smell be? • It’s a skunk! • You must have scared it. • A skunk sends out a stinky spray. To defend itself against larger animals that threaten to eat it (not that you would ever eat a skunk!) • Skunks burrow into holes in the ground or into rotten tree trunks. • They eat berries and insects and eggs they steal from the nests of birds that also live in the forest habitat.

33. The Forest Habitat • Ooh, what’s that sticky stuff on your face? • You’ve walked into the threads of a spider web, strung across your path. • Spiders weave their webs where insects fly, hoping to trap some bug for dinner. • Yummy!

34. The Forest Habitat • Down on the forest floor, the leaves fall and pile up. • Snails and other animals eat the leaves. • Along comes a raccoon, which eats the snails (and many other things – raccoons aren’t very picky eaters!).

35. The Forest Habitat • Woodpecker, squirrel, skunk, spider, snail, raccoon – all these animals and many more live in the forest habitat. • For their homes and food, they depend upon the plants and other animals that live in the forest with them.

36. The Underground Habitat • Imagine what you brought a shovel with you on your walk through the forest. • Take it out and dig down under the twigs, leaves, and mushrooms on the forest floor. • What can you see?

37. The Underground Habitat • A slimy brown earthworm slithers deeper underground. • A little white grub curls up in the soil. • Soon it will grow into an insect and creep among the forest ferns and mosses.

38. The Underground Habitat • The worm and the grub live together in the forest’s underground habitat. • Even some furry animals, like moles, live underground with them. • Moles have long slender paws just right for digging. • They burrow underground, and they look for things to eat: things like roots, and and sorry little worm – worms. • Actually, moles don’t really “look” for things to eat, since they can’t see very well. • Instead, moles find their way around underground with a keen sense of smell.

39. The Underground Habitat • So moles have paws for digging, and even though they have weak eyes, they have a strong sense of smell. • Do you see how the mole is suited to its underground habitat?

40. The Underground Habitat • Here’s a fact you know is true every time your tummy growls: animals need to eat. • Scientists use special names for animals, depending on whether they eat • Plants • Meat • Both. • Let’s learn these special names they’re big words, so get ready!

41. What You are Called and What You Eat • Do you eat both plants and meat? • Then you’re an omnivore. • An omnivore is an animal that eats both plants and animals. • Bears are omnivores. • They eat berries, and they eat small animals like fish. • They also use their sharp claws to rip open logs and eat the insects they find there.

42. What You are Called and What You Eat • Animals that eat only plants are called herbivores. • Some human beings choose to eat only plants and no meat. • Many animals, including mice, cows and horses, eat only plants. • Even huge elephants eat only leaves, fruits, nuts, and grasses.

43. What You are Called and What You Eat • Some animals would rather eat meat most of all. • Can you think of any? • Dogs and cats, lions and tigers, sharks and snakes eat meat. • They are called carnivores. • A carnivore eats animal meat.

44. The Desert Habitat • Let’s look at the desert, which is a very different habitat from the forest. • Can you think of some differences between the forest and the desert?

45. The Desert Habitat • The forest is often cool. • The desert is often hot. • The forest is moist. • The desert is dry. • The forest is dark and shady. • The desert is bright and sunny.

46. The Desert Habitat • Sometimes it snows and rains in the forest, but it rarely does in the desert. • Compared to the forest, the desert is a very different habitat for plants and animals. • So do you think you’ll find the same kind of animals and plants in the desert that you find in the forest?

47. The Desert Habitat • Lizards live in the hot desert. • Their bodies do well in the heat. • They like to lie on warm rocks and bask in the blazing sunshine. • Lizards match the desert habitat.

48. The Desert Habitat • Cactus plants grow in the desert. • They can grow for a long time without any rain at all. • They like heat and a lot of sunshine. • Cactus plants do well in the desert habitat.

49. The Desert Habitat • But not many animals or plants live in the desert. • In fact, the desert is almost deserted – which is how it got its name.

50. Water Habitats • Can you name some animals that live in water? • Fish live in water, such as • Ponds • Lakes • Streams. • They eat smaller • Fish • Plants • Insects.