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	AIM: To understand The Arts (dance, music, theater & visual) as a language that can communicate a deeper understanding of our community around Hudson River. Understand the expressive and conceptual use of art to communicate an experience on the community around the Hudson River. Know multiple approaches to learning that allow the arts to bridge skill, knowledge, reflection, cultural, curriculum and standards.
THE ARTS	LINE OF INQUIRY
	How do artists use line, color, texture, shape, point-of-view, horizon line, mapping, collage and found object sculptures to make commentaries on aspects of the Hudson River community?
	EDUCATION LINE OF INQUIRY: How can the content of history become the subject matter for an interdisciplinary work of art that calls attention to current events?
Session 1	September 20, 2008 9:00 – 12:00
DO NOW:	ON THE HUDSON RIVER AT POUGHKEEPSIE
Activity	LINE: on the Hudson River. Sketch and draw the Hudson River using different qualities of line. Explore the expressive and conceptual use of line in 4 drawings of the Hudson River and it’s surroundings. Where do you see CURVY lines on the Hudson River? Show me. Where do you see STRAIGHT lines on the river? Draw. Where do you see JAGGED lines on the river? Sketch. Where do you see WISPY lines on the river? Draw. Where do you see other qualities of lines? Draw them.
	POINT-OF-VIEW: People and places on the Hudson River. Explore the use of POINT-OF-VIEW to create 4 contrasting ideas or feelings about people and places on the Hudson River. How do points-of-view; satellite-view, birds-eye, worms-eye and eye-level orientations influence our view of the river and it’s surroundings? Use a digital camera to take 3 different points-of-view of the Hudson River area. (BIRD’S-EYE, WORM’S-EYE AND EYE-LEVEL) Take 3 more pictures of each view, only now, try to EXAGGERATE these views to show a different feeling or meaning about the same place or object. Back in the classroom: Use Google Earth to capture a satellite view of the area you were photographing.
	COLOR AND TEXTURE: on the Hudson River. Explore and understand multiple techniques for rendering textures on the Hudson through the close observation of details. Take a series of digital photos of textures and surfaces from the Hudson River area. Later, in the classroom, you will use markers, pastels, watercolors, etc. to create artworks based on these studies.
	FLOTSAM / JETSAM : on the Hudson River. How can found object sculptures be used to make a commentary on the life and health of the Hudson River Valley and it’s people? SAFELY, collect FOUND-OBJECTS along the Hudson River that can be used to make sculptures when we return to the classroom.