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When we return from break, we will be learning about human body systems. We have to learn about the respiratory, circulatory, muscular, skeletal, nervous, and digestive systems. This is new in our curriculum this year, which means I get to learn new stuff too and figure out how best to teach it. Unfortunately, I feel like I have struggled all year to teach science in truly meaningful ways. Mainly, I feel like our new curriculum is shallow and widespread (we went from 4 goals/units to 7 domains). I'm not trying to be a baby (maybe I am) but I didn't like science to begin with when I became a teacher and then as I became a 5th grade expert on my science content areas, I began to like it more. I even got over my hatred of sand all over my room when we were learning about erosion, deposition, and weathering (no more landforms in 5th grade :( ) Now, with no {real} training or investment from our district, we got to start from scratch on a number of these units. We get the impression that no one is interested in investing in these standards because we will be transitioning to Next Generation standards in another year. (So, why didn't we just leave our old standards the hell alone as we also transitioned to the common core? In addition, we also have a 5th grade science EOG...on new standards...love it! That's education for you.) Discovery Ed's science tech-book was the only new resource we were given, which I'm also not that big of a fan of because it's pretty basic. Maybe I will appreciate it more next year when we are 1-1 and I can more easily assign components of the units to my students. Okay, now that I have (somewhat) vented, I wanted to share my plans for the Human Body Systems with you. I'm actually kind-of excited about this unit. We are going to start with nonfiction-based research in reader's workshop. I am going to try to embed as many nonfiction review lessons as I can, probably spending a majority of my lessons focusing on how author's signal vocabulary words and provide us with definitions (aka-context clues). Dedicating about two weeks for this in reader's workshop, we will still have a few weeks for looking at "Test Talk" for the reading EOG. To hold all of my students' research together and to help them learn the important parts of the Human Body Systems content, I created a Human Body Systems Student Encyclopedia. This is meant to be a down and dirty science unit. (Did I mention I will also be teaching FORCE and MOTION at the same time during our science block? Phew! Maybe I could have taught all of these standards if I totally ignored social studies all year. How sad! :( ) During reader's workshop, I will start with a minilesson (probably a video, a journal question for students to respond to, or some other type of engagement activity, and a nonfiction-reading based review lesson), then students will move to articles that I have placed around the room. (I am getting articles from Discover Ed, readworks.org, http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/, and kidnetic.org, and I will be pulling books from the library.) I included links from readworks in the Human Body Systems research project. If you don't know about readworks.org yet, you should really check it out for decent nonfiction--free--and lexiled. (You can check out the list here and go to readworks.org to search for them.) Another great resource I found was kidnetic.com/innerg. You can see below that you put a body part in place, then click on BRIGHT PAPERS on the RIGHT to learn more about the body part. I will either print off the Bright Papers for more research and/or head to the lab at the end of our 6 body systems reader's workshop cycle and let them click around to learn more and add info to their encyclopedias. We will also be using http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/. Each day, we will focus on a different body system. The research sections for each body system include: coverpage/labeling diagram, structure/description/function chart for body parts, a more detailed diagram for labeling or other extension graphic organizer, a chart for students to list "Top 5 Ways to Keep this System Healthy" and "Illnesses and Syndromes that Can Affect this System," lastly, students complete a page where they try to find connections between different systems. Then, in our writer's workshop block (since I plan for this to turn into a mini-writing project), we will do some sort of science activity to help students better understand the parts of the systems. When we are ready for the mini-writing project, I hope to have students focus on how to take care of one body system by doing more detailed research to understand how a specific disease or ailment affects a system (or multiple systems). I am hoping to make this unit deeper by providing a healthy living spin on it. Human Body Systems now includes an answer key to help teachers provide feedback and help your students complete their research booklets! This was the most requested change to the Human Body Systems product and I'm so thankful for all the love sent through feedback and everyone's patience! If you have already purchased this product, please re-download for the updates! In addition the answer key, I included a page of the suggested activities that are listed in this blog post. As I was planning this unit, I also showed some "love" to a few other TpT sellers. I purchased these posters from Mrs. Bell at Tangled with Teaching. It will make a great bulletin board and I will probably copy a set to place around the room when students are rotating to read their articles (it will provide a short break from longer articles and maybe reinforce something they have read. The posters come in two versions. The human body systems clip art I used for my encyclopedia's came from Teachers Clipart and I found a great packet to use for my language/word study block from Mark Aaron, a FREE set of lessons for Human Body Idioms....go...grab...it...now! Here are a few activity ideas: (you can also find these by following my Science Ideas pinterest board) Make a Spinal Cord (spelloutloud.com) Make a Skeleton (post includes possible read alouds--I would use toothpicks instead of chalk) Make a Model of Lung Digestive System Activities Importance of Cerebrospinal Fluid w/ an Egg (cool!) Edible Bone Model (yum!) Ideas for Cardiovascular System Activities Phew! Long post, but I hope you found some ideas you can use :) Oh yeah, do you have any favorite activities you do with HBS? Other ideas? Feel free to let us know in the comments section!
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Just as the Cube Rotation Assignment was designed to get you to see volumes turn in space, a TurnAround is designed to show proportions of a character or object as they rotate in space. This helps you to draw the character consistently and proportionally "on model" in many views. Below are some lecture notes in the hopes that this process will be easier and make the creating a turnaround more fun. As always, begin you character with a gesture. I started with the world's most basic pose in an effort to simplify the information. When turning a character of your own, you really should pose the character in such a way that best describes the personality. I'll post some examples of good turns at the bottom of this...I'll probably get in trouble for doing so, but this is a "lonely" blog right? Again, start with your "G". Then move on and flesh out the figure using "C" and "A". I left off the "T" to keep this quick. Your character should be turned in both a construction phase to show how you draw the character using construction and in a finished phase to show what the character's costume and other details look like. Once you have laid in a complete GCAT drawing in one view, draw out lines the touch key points such as construction shapes, details such as eyes, navels, and other stuff. You will draw to these lines and not past them. Remember these are your character's proportions, drawing shapes etc past these lines will throw off the proportions of the character. The next step would be to draw in the last pose of the turnaround. This pose is actually a key pose. Key poses describe the start and end of action in animation and as this is a five-point turn; the last drawing will be a view from the rear or a view 180 degrees from the front view. Notice how the components of this drawing line up to the lines created from the front view. Yes I did start this with a gesture but because it's such a straight pose, I left out that step. Go on the the next drawing, this pose in the turn should be the breakdown. This pose is drawn after the keys are complete and describe the action between pose to pose. In this case, this particular pose breaks down a 180 degree turn and thus, shows a 90 turn or the side view of the character as it turns from left to right. Because drawing a turnaround between stringent lines will make your stiffen up, be sure you remember the implied gesture of a pose. Do not let yourself leave out the gesture of any step in the process, or else you get this visual vulgarity. I joke about this but I see it all of the time. To prevent the above yuck, remember the implied gesture of your character. The spine of a figure is a natural "S" curve, very easy to see from the side. The neck gently curves back while the thoracic vertebrae sweep carry the ribcage forward. The lumbaric vertebrae change direction and the sweep of the spine ends through the sacrum. The legs have their own natural arcs to counter the curvature of the spine. Keep this in mind to keep your drawings alive. Flesh out this gesture to get a good profile view as shown below. notice also how the arm gently curves back to offset the weight of the trunk. Now it's time to focus on the inbetweens. These are poses between the key and breakdown. In this case it's a 3/4 view of the front. Again get a good gesture first... ...And then flesh it out. Almost done now-you can see where we are heading by now. By applying the steps mentioned you can draw in your 3/4 rear to complete this turn. Note that the amount of perspective incorporated into this is minimal. Assume you are looking through a 75mm to 100mm lens and the horizon line to which everything recedes passes through the center of the figure at about pelvis height. Don't overdo the perspective of you figure our it may blow out the proportions. What about a character, rather than a relatively stiff figure drawing group like the above (this too needs some updating), how do you draw up a turnaround of a non-realistic character? The same method applies to anything that you plan to turnaround. Take this character for example, Shim, a little fellow I drew up for in class assignments This character is a simple bean with gesture at it core. And constructed with simple shapes including mitten hands and wedge feet. Now that we have some hard masses we can plot out the rest of the body positions for the turn. This will be an 8 point turn or one that rotates the character in 360 degrees, some times all that is needed in a turnaround is five poses; Front, 3/4 front, side or profile, 3/4 rear, and rear referred to as a five point turn. The eight point turn is just a little more thorough from a motion stand point. The back gesture is shown next because it would be a key if animated. I would suggest NOT inbetweening your way through a turnaround, stuff can get out of proportion if you do so. Here is an in progress of roughing out the gestures of most of the poses in the turn, this helps to see how the figure will appear to turn and to see where the poses will end up on the page or screen, and also acts to keep the drawings loose and hopefully prevents them from stiffening up. Lay in your construction over the gestures, be sure to line up the corners of the hard masses with the ruled lines as shown above, doing so will make things easy and keep the proportions correct. After a little time you will get a roughed in version of your character. At this stage the character will be cleaned up but I left it ruff as is to better get across the rotation of the construction shapes and how they conform to the gesture(s) of the poses. More to come from here, stay tuned and have fun drawing! Here are some notes from a previous turnaround lecture... Below are some good examples for your perusal. Enjoy! I hope this helps with your turnarounds.
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