This document provides an agenda for an education course. It discusses Elliot Eisner's view that curriculum is unbalanced and how a balanced curriculum incorporating creative arts like art, music and poetry can help students learn in different ways. It describes an activity where students experience a rainforest through art, photos, sounds and food to enhance their understanding beyond just reading about it. Students are assigned a reaction paper and asked to respond to classmates' papers. The document outlines plans for the next week focusing on graphic organizers.

1. EDU323: Week 3
Dr. Jennifer C. Walts

2. Agenda
• Welcome ~ Sharing
• Discussion
• “The Impoverished Mind”
• Looking Ahead
• Questions?
• Food for Thought

3. Impoverished Mind
• Why does Elliot Eisner feel that our
curriculum is unbalanced?
• Why is this a problem?
• How does a balanced curriculum help
students with different learning styles
succeed?

4. Continued…
• How do creative arts help students
experience information more fully?
(Autumn)
• Art
• Photography
• Music
• Sounds
• Cooking/food
• Poetry

5. The rainforest
• Pretend you are in third grade…your
teacher has given you a passage to read
about the rainforest.
• Now…Stop and jot…
• Think about what you know about the
tropical rainforest.
• Write down at least two things you know.
• Let’s share.

6. Gallery Walk
• Now let’s experience the rainforest in a
different way.

7. Art…

8. artistic view

9. From above

10. Photography

11. Forest Fauna

12. Forest Floor Flora

13. Poetry
The Rainforest
By Martha McDermott
The birds were singing
and the sun was shining,
the monkeys were howling loud,
The river was flowing
and the fish were swimming,
As the flamingos were standing proud.
A very light drizzle was falling down,
as a Jaguar crouched on the ground,
A majestic leapord climbed a tree, as if he had a crown,
while a green hummingbird full of life lively buzzed around.

14. Rainforest Fruits
• How about making a fruit salad with
bananas, mangoes, pineapples, and
coconut?

15. Balance
• Does experiencing a balanced curriculum
enhance your understanding of what a
rainforest is?
• Why? Why not?

16. This Week
• React: Friday ~ Post your reaction paper to
the article we read and the article you found.
Two pages, double-spaced. Post in the
DropBox.
• Respond: Respond to at least three of your
classmates in our discussion board.
• Reflect: Email your reflection to Dr. Walts at
jwalts@bpc.edu.

17. Looking ahead
• Week 4 is all about Graphic Organizers.
• Visit websites that have examples
• Read the article (in Haiku) on the research behind
Graphic Organizers
• Respond to the article…share your thoughts and
experiences with Graphic Organizers
• React to three of your classmates’ papers
• Collaborate when you join our Elluminate session
• Create a Graphic Organizer of your own
• Reflect on the week

18. Food for Thought
• The dream begins, most of the time, with a
teacher who believes in you, who tugs and
pushes and leads you on to the next
plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp
stick called truth."--Dan Rather