FES+Documentation

Please include evidence of student achievement and/or learning as a result of the implementation of the TSIM lesson plan here. You may include:
 * pictures (paste them in, you may want to insert a table first to organize the photos)
 * video (upload to a service like YouTube or Vimeo and embed the player here - or link out to the site)
 * narrative (write about the lesson and your observations)
 * data (include pre/post assessment data to show the impact of your lesson)
 * other (include anything else you'd like to share here)

="Walking Into a Book"=
 * Photos:**

Work in progress photos to be uploaded soon (of course they were left on the other camera!).

[] The video looped so that it would play continuously.
 * Video played on the "pages" of our book:**

The lesson on fiction and non-fiction was taught by Yolanda Pato, the gifted teacher in her classroom. She also utilized the library for the video portion of the installation. The artwork was created with the help of the elementary gifted students and middle/high school volunteers with the assistance of the art teacher, Amy Roadman. The ideas flowed during the brainstorming session. Mrs. Pato provided the skeletons of the posters needed to properly illustrate fiction and non-fiction and then groups of students took the ideas and ran with them visually. They all split up into groups to work on the larger parts of the installation. A book cover, bookmark, giant pencil, and banners were created by groups of students that willingly took on each aspect of the project. The elementary students decided to name the book "Fiction and Non-Fiction, Two Different Faces". The older students sketched out ideas based on this theme and the elementary students helped to make this huge painting. Excitement was evident when the students realized they were watching themselves on the pages of the book. Overall, it was a time consuming project because of the large size, and our schedules did not allow for a lot of collaboration during the creation of it (the elementary students were able to come to the art room during my prep with some of the MS students helping at this time, but the MS/HS students were usually there at separate times after school), but it was exciting to see how enthusiastic they all were about the project. It was a good way to reinforce the skills of identifying fiction and non-fiction.
 * Our lesson and observations:**

The pretest for the elementary students consisted of oral discussion of what a fiction book entailed and what made non-fiction a non-fiction book. These ideas were recorded on poster board. Even though we went into further detail about fiction and non-fiction and the organization of them, I felt on the post-test that the students did not seem to advance as much as I was hoping. As can be seen on the post test, they did acquire or retain from previous learning the characteristics of non-fiction. However, out of the nine students that were apart of the project at the time, three of the students were able to describe fully or partially the parts of a fiction book in the post-test. Another factor that was involved was that a few of the students were not present for the introduction of the lesson with its pre-test. Maybe this can be considered a factor in the small amount of increase in knowledge from the pre-test to the post-test.
 * Pre/Post Assessment:**

The idea of creating a work of art on such a large scale seemed to be a draw for some students. All of the middle school and high school students involved with the project volunteered their time. I had many disappointed students when it was over, because it was an activity they looked forward to participating in on a weekly basis. I also received positive feedback from the students about the field trip. It was not something any of them had experienced in the past and was a new way of viewing art.
 * Overall impression of the artwork: **

Announcements were made over the loudspeaker at the schools to inform students about the display, an announcement was posted on the News section of the district website and posters (file linked below) were on display in all of the schools before the show. The Space I'm In installation was also on display at the same time as the MS/HS Art Exhibit, therefore parents and students could walk across the parking lot to the elementary school to view the installation. 
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