This Unit at a Glance:
Grade Band:
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Targeted Standards:
The National Standards For Arts Education:
Theater (5-8)
Standard 1: Script writing by the creation of improvisations and scripted scenes based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history
Theater (5-8)
Standard 3: Designing by developing environments for improvised and scripted scenes
Theater (5-8)
Standard 4: Directing by organizing rehearsals for improvised and scripted scenes
Visual Arts (5-8)
Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes
Visual Arts (5-8)
Standard 3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas
Other National Standards:
Geography III (6-8)
Standard 2: Knows the location of places, geographic features, and patterns of the environment
Geography III (6-8)
Standard 3: Understands the characteristics and uses of spatial organization of Earth's surface
Language Arts III (6-8)
Standard 8: Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes
World History III (7-8)
Standard 9: Understand how major religious and large-scale empires arose in the Mediterranean Basin, China, and India from 500 BCE to 300 CE
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Unit Overview:
Students will explore the art, scientific data, history, production, and magic of shadow puppetry. They will discover the intricacies and nuances in creating and performing through the ARTSEDGE site, Playing with Shadows: An Introduction to Shadow Puppetry. This interactive site can be used as a stand-alone lesson or in conjunction with the lessons, Puppets on the Move: China and the Silk Road and Shadows & Light, Science & Puppetry.
Lesson Overviews:
Students will learn how light interacts with matter, by creating and performing shadow puppet plays.
Students will gain an understanding of the dynamics of trade in China, culminating in student-produced shadow puppet performances.
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