"The imagination imitates.
It is the critical spirit
that creates."
Oscar Wilde

Principal
Greenbrier County Schools

Underwriter
Harvey and Naomi Cohen

Partner
Levine Family Foundation
Sweet Springs Valley Water Co.

Contributor
Mary and David Essig-Beatty

Creative Classrooms workshops infuse the arts into multiple disciplines by making authentic connections to content standards. Led by Professional Teaching Artists, CreativeClassrooms encourage student understanding, higher order thinking skills and problem solving, and a deeper appreciation of the arts while helping teachers balance core curricula being studied.

Upon selecting a specific workshop, Carnegie Hall will supply the grade specific CSO’s for that Creative Classroom. You may make the teaching artist aware of any particular classroom goals when confirming a Creative Classrooms workshop. The teaching artist will work with you to accommodate lessons in progress.

Carnegie Hall is seeking teaching artists/instructors for its acclaimed Arts in Education program Creative Classrooms for the 2008-2009 year. Qualified workshops support 21st Century Skills and West Virginia Department of Education’s Content Standards and Objectives.
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Creative Dramatics
The Shadow Knows
Children of the Earth
Origami
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Astronomy in the Arts
Puppets and Poetry
Puppets and Fables
Hats and Headdresses
What is a Watershed?
Native American West Virginians
Moving Lessons: Science, Math, Language
Message in a Quilt
Corn Husk Flowers
Landscape Painting and Drawing
Printmaking I
Printmaking II
Introduction to Pottery Making
Native American Pottery and Petroglyphs
Folk Dancing around the World

Special Programs

• Be There! Your presence and participation in the classroom during the Creative Classrooms workshop is required. Think of it as a professional development opportunity right in your very own classroom!
• Allow two hours for each Creative Classrooms workshop.
• Limit class size to 25 students per workshop to help ensure a quality learning experience.
• Involve parent volunteers. This is a great opportunity to bring parents into the classroom.
• Make nametags for your students to wear during the session – this is very helpful to the visiting artist and parent volunteers.
• You are encouraged to photograph your class during a workshop. Please share any photos with Carnegie Hall.
• If you send out a press release or write a school newspaper feature about your Creative Classrooms workshop, please include program and funding credit to Carnegie Hall, Inc. and Creative Classrooms sponsors.
• We encourage you to work with fellow teachers in your school to schedule two workshops (a morning and an afternoon session) with the same artist on the same day.
• Carnegie Hall will invoice your school following each Creative Classrooms workshop. The invoice will be sent to the participating teacher’s attention. The teacher may pay directly from this invoice or forward the invoice to the appropriate person or office for payment.
• Questions about payment or the cost of programs should be directed to the Carnegie Hall Education Director, Rebekah Foster 304.645.7917.

Creative Dramatics
Instructor: Margaret Baker
Materials Fee: none
Grades: Pre K – 12
CSO Connection: Theatre

A great way to get kinesthetic learners out of their seats as they use their bodies and voices as art supplies to create sculpture, animals, forces of nature, or shades of the human condition. Students learn the necessity of structure even in highly creative improvisations and role playing activities. [back to list]

The Shadow Knows
Instructor: Margaret Baker
Materials Fee: $1.00 per student
Grades: K – 12
CSO Connections: Theatre, Social Studies, Visual Art

Create and illuminate through the Indonesian art of shadow puppets. Students learn to make puppets using cut-outs and colored tissue paper. Students animate puppet characters creating a story or short skit. Shadow puppets tell folk or fairy tales evolving from all cultures, mythology, history or students’ imaginations. [back to list]

Children of the Earth
Instructor: Sharon Ginsburg
Materials Fee: $1.25 per student
Grades: Pre K - 8
CSO Connections: Science, Visual Art, Social Studies

Oxygen (photosynthesis/respiration) and water cycles are examined, reinforcing the concept of the interconnected world. Students explore the daily lives, favorite foods and everyday dress of children from around the world. Each student paints a fabric flag while learning color theory. Students express their daily lives: favorite foods, activities, families and pets on their flag through designs of their own creation. They are hung together to create a colorful classroom banner. [back to list]

Origami
Instructor: Sharon Ginsburg
Materials Fee: $.50 per student
Grades: K - 12
CSO Connections: Math, Social Studies, Geography, Visual Art

Origami, the art of Japanese paper folding, incorporates math manipulative learning to develop students’ fine motor skills, concentration, dexterity, memory, geometry skills, self esteem and cooperation. The students complete several origami projects, learn Japanese words, try their hand at chopsticks and look at Japanese alphabets to gain awareness of the ancient culture. [back to list]

Follow the Drinking Gourd
Instructor: Sharon Ginsburg
Materials Fee: $1.25 per student (shaker) / $2.50 per student (bowl)
Grades: K - 8
CSO Connections: History, Social Studies, Geography, Music, Visual Art

Explore American history of the mid 1800’s with earth and space science made relevant through the use of cryptology, song, rhythm, storytelling and a dried gourd art project. Students learn about Harriet Tubman and hear stories of her life. They sing and decode the title song, explore the Underground Railroad, PegLeg Joe, and learn about slave life in the 1800’s. Students complete a dried gourd project, sing an African call-and-response song, and learn interesting facts about how the stars, earth and sun played a role in the life of slaves. [back to list]

Astronomy in the Arts
Instructor: Dan Greene
Materials Fee: $1.00 per student
Grades: K - 12
CSO Connections: Science, Social Studies, Visual Art

Through a variety of art forms, students are introduced to the beautiful and fascinating night sky. This exciting workshop, blending art and science, will culminate with an interactive planetarium show in the Carnegie Hall Starlab. [back to list]

Puppets and Poetry
Instructor: Barry Harel
Materials Fee: $1.00 per student
Grades: Pre K - 8
CSO Connections: Reading and Language Arts, Visual Art

Combine literature and creative writing with handmade puppets to create a fun way to learn, build inclusion and proactive listening and speaking skills. In this workshop, various forms of poetry (based on grade level) will be introduced. Students compose a poem, and make a puppet to present the poem to the class. [back to list]

Puppets and Fables
Instructor: Barry Harel
Materials Fee: $1.00 per student
Grades: 1 - 8
CSO Connections: Reading and Language Arts, Visual Art, Geography, History

Literature, history, geography (and for older students, creative writing) come together as the origin of fables is introduced and specific fables are told with the aid of puppets. Students discuss fables then create tube puppets to act out the fables that they have heard or written themselves. [back to list]

Hats and Headdresses
Instructor: Barry Harel
Materials Fee: $1.00 per student
Grades: Pre K - 8
CSO Connections: Geography, Social Studies, Visual Art

Hats and headdresses have been worn all over the world throughout the ages for protection, decoration, and/or communication. In this workshop, students examine, compare and contrast hats from a variety of cultures. Students make a unique sculptural hat or headdress using recycled materials, paper bags and adornments. [back to list]

What is a Watershed?
Instructor: Caroline Smith
Materials Fee: $1.00 per student
Grades: K - 12
CSO Connections: Reading and Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Visual Art

This arts-based environmental education workshop takes a multidisciplinary approach. Plants and animals of the watershed, and the concept of a watershed–an interdependent ecology–are studied, using the Greenbrier River Watershed. Writings from nature writer Annie Dillard and Native American poet Gary Snyder are discussed and analyzed. Students create a 3-D paper collage watershed model using recycled materials. [back to list]

Native American West Virginians
Instructor: Caroline Smith
Materials Fee: $1.00 per person
Grades: K - 8
CSO Connections: Social Studies, Reading and Language Arts, Visual Art

Analyze a story from local Cherokee oral tradition of how Native Americans came to be in West Virginia. Create a story from the students’ imagination and tell the story using Native American “picture writing.” Students work cooperatively to tell a story based on a petroglyph from northern West Virginia. Students will study as anthropologists and learn about Cherokee culture, village life, the organizing principle of seven, festivals, ideas and values. [back to list]

Moving Lessons: Science, Math or Language
Instructor: Carli Mareneck
Materials Fee: none
Grades: Pre K - 3
CSO Connections: Science, Math, OR Reading and Language Arts

Increase student comprehension and retention while students problem solve with movement. The workshop incorporates simple strategies for creative movement into the classrooms, enhancing student learning across curricula, while students enjoy active learning situations.

MOVING SCIENCE
Lesson: Learning about our Bodies: Heart, Lungs, Bones and Muscles.
Lesson: Learning about the weather.

MOVING MATH
Lesson: Learning about shapes, symmetry and mapping.
Lesson: Learning about measurement.

MOVING LANGUAGE
Lesson: Prepositions: Over, Under, Around and Through.
Lesson: Stories into Movement, Movement into Stories [back to list]

Message in a Quilt
Instructor: Kelli Martin
Materials Fee: $1.00 per student
Grades: K-5
CSO Connections: Visual Arts, Social Studies, Language Arts

Traveling on the Underground Railroad was no easy task. Learn the history and language of quilts and how they led slaves to freedom. By creating their own quilt squares, students tell their own stories. [back to list]

Corn Husk Flowers
Instructor: Nora Mosrie
Materials Fee: $2.00 per student
Grades: Pre K-12
CSO Connections: Visual Art, Social Studies

Corn husks, which were used by the Native Americans to create a variety of art forms, remain an important aspect of Appalachian craft tradition. Explore this heritage craft, along with color relationships, through the use of this natural material. [back to list]

Landscape Painting and Drawing
Instructor: Nora Mosrie
Materials Fee: $2.50 per student
Grades: 3-12
CSO Connections: Visual Art, Social Studies, Math

Participants will interpret the local landscape through drawing and painting. Students will examine their landscape through discussion and exploration, and then create art using oil pastels and watercolor paints. [back to list]

Printmaking I
Instructor: Robin Skillern
Materials Fee: $ .70 per student
Grades: Pre K - 1
CSO Connections: Visual Art, Mathematics, Social Studies

Students study examples of carved wooden blocks from India used for printmaking. Students create multiple stamps from potatoes and other assorted materials. Scientific elements of observation and prediction, and mathematical concepts of pattern and repetition are integral to the process as students experiment with color, pattern, texture and shapes through making prints. [back to list]

Printmaking II
Instructor: Robin Skillern
Materials Fee: $ .80 per student
Grades: 2 - 6
CSO Connections: Visual Art, Mathematics, Social Studies

Students create their own stamps for printing using a variety of materials. Geometric designs from different cultures will be the inspiration for creating prints. Scientific elements of observation and prediction, and mathematical concepts of pattern and repetition are integral to the process as students experiment with color, pattern, texture and shapes through making prints. [back to list]

Introduction to Pottery Making
Instructor: Caroline Smith
Materials Fee: $2.50 per student
Grades: K-12
CSO Connections: Reading and Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Art

Learn the ancient craft of clay with a pottery lesson in the methods of hand-building. Students learn to pinch, coil and slab with earthenware clay and produce colorful useful projects that are kiln fired. [back to list]

Native American Pottery and Petroglyphs
Instructor: Caroline Smith
Materials Fee: $2.50 per student
Grades: 4-8
CSO Connections: Social Studies, Reading and Language Arts, Visual Art

Students produce pottery using symbols from stories and petroglyphs of the Native American culture. Storytelling, symbolism and pottery making are all included in this handson workshop. Using self-hardening clay and acrylics, each student produces a pinch pot and a slab piece that air dries in the classroom. [back to list]

Folk Dancing Around the World
Instructor: Beth White
Materials Fee: none
Grades: Pre K - 12
CSO Connections: Social Studies, Geography, Physical Education

Get ready to have fun and get moving by learning folk dances from all around the world. Students will Polka, Troika, skip and hop, swing and glide! Folk dancing is the ancient style of social dance, and tells stories as old as the planet. [back to list]

SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Astronomy in the Arts
Instructor: Dan Greene
Materials Fee: none
Grade: All 3rd Grade classes in Greenbrier County Public Schools

Through a variety of art forms, students are introduced to the beautiful and fascinating night sky. This exciting workshop, blending art and science, will culminate with an interactive planetarium show in the Carnegie Hall Starlab.

Robotics and GPS
Instructor: Frank Adkins
Materials Fee: none
Grade: 5 (all counties)
CSO Connections: Science, Mathematics, Geography

Using newly issued NXT Lego Robotics Mindstorms program sets, students will be introduced to basic principles of physics including the study of wheels and axles, gears, levers, and pulleys. Input and output sensor usages will be explained. Students will be prompted to write iconic programs to control their robots while performing certain assigned tasks. Basic design principles and teamwork are paramount. Garmin GPS units will be used to allow student users to: understand the basics and latitude/longitude and UTM grid systems, set waypoints, interface and download to a basic software program. Additionally, students will take a virtual tour of local satellite imaged topography and also visit some of planet earth's unique places.
Presented in partnership with the Rahall Transportation Institute of Marshall University.

For more information, call 304-645-7917 or e-mail Education Director Rebekah Foster