Curriculum Connections

CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS AT EMP MUSEUM 2012-2013

Enhance your museum visit!

EMP Curriculum Connections link WA State core learning objectives and 21st century skills with current dynamic, engaging, and interactive museum content. Meaningfully connect a museum visit with your classroom studies. Workshops run 45-60 minutes. All classes are taught by professional teaching artists experienced with adapting material to the age and developmental level of students.

Cost: $100 per class of up to 30 students with museum student group admission of $5 per person

Workshops are available in the following integrated subject areas:

Language Arts integrated with Music:

Songwriting for Everyone
This class focuses on the building blocks of songwriting including stanza form, lyrics, style, tempo, tone, melody, rhythm, and texture. Develop a personal narrative or link with themes in Science Fiction and Fantasy (grades 6–12 and university).

Power of Your Singing Voice
Hone your singing skills by finding your center, exploring breath, expression, tone production, resonators of the body, pitch, phrasing, and harmony (all grade levels).

Voice, Body, and Rhythm
Explore rhythmic speech, rap, scatting, group interlocking rhythm games, improvisation, and all the amazing possibilities available through the instrument of voice (all grade levels).

Language Arts integrated with Visual and Performing Arts:

NEW! Cartooning in Science fiction and fantasy
Let your imagination fly with simple cartooning skills that express character, movement, and space in a Science Fiction or Fantasy world of your own creation (all grade levels).

NEW! Architectural Fantasy: Frank Gehry’s EMP museum
Students will respond to art and fantastical ideas through their description, analysis, interpretation, and observation about one of the most unique buildings in the city of Seattle (grades 6–12 and university).

NEW! Theater Skills, acting, and Script Reading
Participate in theater exercises, learn fun and effective presentation skills involved in Reader’s Theater, and enact scenes from famous Science Fiction and Fantasy books and film (all grade levels).

Guitar 101
Attend a guitar tutorial session with a professional musician! Take the next step in musical performance, from an introduction to the guitar and basic chords, to learning a favorite song and advanced strumming techniques (grades 6–12).

Social Studies and History Integrated with Music:

NEW! Got the Blues?
A condensed look at the history of blues music and its major themes with a focus on popular blues musicians, blues form, and its influence on Jimi Hendrix (grades 6–12).

Anthropology of Punk
Observe popular culture through an anthropological lens with an ethnographic study of punk music as a component of recent and contemporary popular culture (grades 9–12 and university).

Science Integrated with Music:

Science of Sound
Find out how sound vibrations are generated, transmitted, received, and interpreted through music, and what happens when we add electricity! (grades 3–5).

Book a visit and sign up for one of these exciting classes.

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For more information contact SchoolVisit@EMPmuseum.org or 206-770-2766.

Curriculum Connections Outreach Program

Meet your learning objectives brilliantly with contemporary engaging content!

Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Music and Visual Arts learning goals come alive at EMP as you engage your students through exciting content in contemporary music, science fiction, fantasy, technology, pop culture, and film.

Bring EMP into your classroom! One of our dynamic professional teaching artists will lead three workshops tailored to your class needs. These artist-led workshops culminate with students venturing out of the traditional classroom for a field study at EMP Museum. Workshops lead a direct path to EMP’s hands on interactive exhibits and more wide awake learning.

Designed to inspire those ah ha! moments in your students—and a personal relationship to the content. The following EMP Museum exhibitions will be on view during the 2012-2013 school year: Icons of Science Fiction, Fantasy: Worlds of Myth and Magic, Worn to Be Wild: The Black Leather Jacket, Hear My Train a' Comin': Hendrix Hits London; and The Art of Video Games.

Cost:

• $400 per class of 30 students (includes EMP Museum admission! 5+ hours of learning for ~$13pp!)
• Funding assistance provided to qualifying schools with 40% or more Free and Reduced Priced Lunch Program (FRPL) designation.
• Bus funding assistance (up to $150) available for qualifying classes upon request
• Preference for funding assistance is given to middle schools, across grade level teams, with principal support

Details:

• For students in grades 4-12
• Includes two classroom workshops, concluding workshop with your teaching artist at EMP as well as admission to EMP with dedicated time for exploration of the galleries. In-the-classroom integrated programs are aligned with Language Arts, Social Sciences, and Science/Technology and Arts subject areas
• All projects aligned with Washington State Core learning standards and national 21st century skills
• All workshops are supported by EMP exhibitions that explore oral histories, popular cinema, science fiction and fantasy, and various genres of music
• Visit EMP’s interactive Sound Lab, a unique space dedicated to hands-on experiences in music making

Explore these exciting connections to our Science Fiction and Fantasy exhibitions.

Workshops are available in the following integrated subject areas, content adjustable to meet your classroom’s unique needs:

Language Arts integrated with Science Fiction and Fantasy reading or writing

Science Fiction or Fantasy Writing
Students explore “What if?” stories, then create worlds based on real science and the heroes / heroines journey, considering plot, place and character writing.

Listen Up! Podcasting!
Students record original poetry or stories based on science fiction or fantasy works, add sound effects and music, and turn them into a podcast.

Storywriting through Cartooning and the Graphic Novel
Students imagination fly through learning simple cartooning skills for expressing character, movement, emotion in a SF or Fantasy world of their own creation.

Theatre Skills, Acting and Script ReadingParticipate in theatre exercises, learn fun and effective presentation skills involved in Reader’s Theatre, enacting scenes from student original writing or famous Science Fiction and Fantasy literature.  Bring your text alive through drama skills, voice and character

Songwriting for Science Fiction and Fantasy
Students create themes song for their fantastic fantasy worlds focusing on stanza form, the lyrical/poetic component, choosing style, tempo, tone, melody, rhythm, and texture to create your unique song.

Visual Arts integrated with Science Fiction and Fantasy reading or writing

Wonders of Wire
Discover the fabulous medium of wire sculpture where students design the creatures that populate their science fiction, and fantasy worlds. A book report in sculpture!

Manga and Anime
Students delve into Japan’s signature cartooning style as they apply skills to reading and writing science fiction and fantasy.

Mask Sculptures in Paper
Students create characters from their own fantasy writing or favorite book, delving into deeper exploration between visual imagination and the written word.

Social Studies integrated with the Visual Arts, Writing, or Music:

Fantastic Worlds Mapmaking
See art and design skills fuse with technology and science as students use mapping skills and create worlds of their own design, using legends, scale, compass rose, and more

Capturing Oral Histories
Learn the art of interviewing to elicit the deeper stories from family, friends, neighbors, and people you admire. Write a feature article for your school publication guided by EMP's unique perspective.

Cartooning and the Graphic Novel
Delve into cartooning and graphic novel skills exploring a range of styles and applications from zines, video games, animated films and create your own world!

Got the Blues?
A dynamic exploration of the history of Blues music and its major themes with a focus on popular Blues musicians, blues form, and its influence on Jimi Hendrix. (Grades 6-12)

Science integrated with Music

Science of Sound
Students explore a “petting zoo” of instruments, learn how various instruments create vibration and pitch, investigate electrical amplification, make their own instrument, and explore the wider world of sound in music.

For more information contact Bonnie Showers, Curator, Education and Interpretive Services at BonnieS@EMPmuseum.org or 206-262-3250

EMP exhibits support classroom subject areas by engaging students in these subject areas: