Story Planet

MULTIMEDIA

Duration/Time: 12 hours over six weeks, story and production
Grade/Level: 1 – 6

The Process: Working with a professional writer and your choice of artist (visual, digital media, cartooning, sculptural or puppetry), students will create a story and then translate that story into a finished multi-media project.  Students will choose to either start with the art and character designs to create a story, or create a story and visually interpret it through the chose art medium.  The “Zeta” workshop offers students a unique way to explore literacy and learn new skills of expression through media literacy and the arts.

The Outcome: Each kid receives an amazing book and gets to showcase his or her art to the larger community both in the school and outside of it.

Curriculum

All workshops offer teachers the time and resources for quick and easy student assessment and/or evaluation.  These assessments and evaluations can easily be added to teacher marks and/or used for final reporting.

• Subject/Strand: Oral and Visual Communication

Workshop Activity: Students will have the opportunity to speak and listen as they take part in brainstorming, discussing and creating stories.

Curriculum Outcome: Students will reflect and identify strengths and ways to improve listening and speaking and visual communication.

• Subject/Strand: Reading

Workshop Activity: Students will read the stories they create as they create them.

Curriculum Outcome: Students will use knowledge of words and cueing systems, recognize a variety of text, text features and stylistic elements and demonstrate how they help communicate meaning.  Students will practice reading fluently.

• Subject/Strand: Writing

Workshop Activity: Students will write their own stories and then rewrite them to fit the creative form of the workshop.

Curriculum Outcome: Students will generate, gather and organize information, draft and revise their writing and use editing to refine expression to present their stories effectively.  Students will also explore different writing forms.

• Subject/Strand: The Arts

Workshop Activity: An artist will introduce his or her own art form to inspire the students. The students will then explore and interpret their stories visually.

Curriculum Outcome:Students will create and present or perform their art form.