CPS Curriculum
Children need more ARTS
and more hands-on SCIENCE
but there aren't enough class hours or budgeted dollars to do both.
Green Scene digs deep by cross-pollinating
Science, Literacy and Theater Arts
and aligning with core standards
Green Scene offers a "From Seed to Fruit" arts residency through which students grow flower and vegetable seedlings indoors in late winter, then transfer them outside in the spring. In tandem to learning about botany and horticultural practices, students draw connections between plant growth and our human experience by exploring analogies with creative writing, improvisation, dramatic play and sound/movement exercises. Green Scene also offers a workshop for an abbreviated version of this programming.
Seed germination
Seed to fruit development
Photosynthesis
Pollination and saving pollinators
Nutrition in soil, plants, humans
Role of worms and bees
Energy Transfer
Ecosystems
Food Chains
Free writing
Dialogue writing
Point of view writing
Metaphor writing
Memoir
Reading for Information
Reading fiction and non fiction
Reading & writing poetry
Developing student inquiry
Yoga warm ups
Improvisation & collaboration
Pantomime
Role playing and character
Creative movement experiments
Sound making experiments
Scene development
Exquisite pressure devising
Student written scenes acted
In the classroom or out on your school's grounds
you will see students
- With their hands in soil bags, planting
- Examining roots and leaves, driving an inquiry
- Up on feet playing theater games
- Experimenting with body centers to convey character
- Quietly writing reflections
- Reading fiction, non-fiction, and seed packages
- Experimenting with sound- choral and instruments
- Executing yoga stretches with botanical imagery
- Reading aloud from their journals
- Sampling the food they grow
- GROWING - socially and emotionally
A Green Scene culminating event.
are an elegant fit with 4th & 5th Grade Standards
Common Core State Standards
English Language Arts
Reading: Literature, Information, Foundation
RL 4.3/ 4.5/ 5.4 RI 4.2/ 4.3/ 4.9/ 5.2/ 5.3/ 5.9 RF 4.4B
Writing: Text Types/Purposes, Research to Build/Present
W 4.1/ 4.3 / 4.3B / 4.3D/ 4.7/ 4.9/ 4.9A/ 4.10/ 5.1/ 5.3/ 5.3B/ 5.3D 5.7/ 5.9/ 5.9A/ 5.10
Speaking and Listening Comprehension and Collaboration
SL.4.1/ 4.2/ 5.1/ 5.2
Speaking and Listening Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
SL.4.4/ 5.4
Language L4.5/ 5.5
Next Generation Science Standards
Energy 4-PS3.2, 5-PS3.1, 5-PS3.D, 5-LS1.C
Structure, Function, and Information Processing 4-LS1.1
Molecules to Organisms: Structures & Processes 5-LS1.1, 5-LS1.C
Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, Dynamics 5-LS2.A, 5-LS2.B
Illinois Learning Standards
Fine Arts - Late Elementary
State Goal 25 and 26
Residencies for HIGH SCHOOL are also available
Teaching artist Martie Sanders has worked with teenagers (grades 8-12) in a garden settings since 2012 and delivers authentic experiential learning for young people. Her residencies can be tailored to your classroom needs and incorporate NGSS, ELA and Arts goals. See her work with teens on YOUNG PEOPLE CREATE page
Green Scene is endorsed by INGENUITY
which builds partnerships between artists and schools in Chicago.
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Martie's
Teaching Resume
Click here
Martie's Performance Resume Click here
