earth as art year 8 3 geography
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Earth as Art
Year 8.3 GeographyMr. GreenFeb 2010
Fire collision
Riane and Lauren
Eruption
Alina and Precious
Elephant of Everest
Brandon and Jordan
Nepal
Yunus and Harveer
Crocs of the Can
Brandon and Jordan
The Palms
Yunus and Harveer
Can’t Believe it’s Asia
Zoe and Jerome
The Bat of the World
Brandon and Jordan
Veins
Zoe and Jerome
Aussie Art
Grant
LA Galaxy
Rohan and Shafique
Fantastic Earth Roots
Andrew, Greg and Liam
The Puzzle
Daven and Jordan
Mosaic
Kinza and Rozeena
Colourful World
Kulpreet and Rav
Year 8 Fantastic PlaceEarth as Art Lesson
The objectives of this lesson – pupils will be able to:
•understand that every place has unique physical and human characteristics, which can be interpreted and represented in different ways•know where places and landscapes are located, why they are there, the patterns and distributions they create
To achieve this:
•Use Google Earth (or google maps or the NASA Earth as Art site) to find artistic images of the Earth •Paste your carefully chosen image into word or ppt•Decide on a title for your piece of art and create a piece of fictional writing about the image
links
• USGS satellite images as art http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.htmYear8
• • Pupil example (other school)
http://geogtastic.blogspot.com/2009/10/8bl-earth-as-art-challenge.html
• Exemplar Artwork earth images (student work): http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/artworkearth/
• Earth As Art NASA site: http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.htm