Fun-Arts
Year 6 – California
Migration, Cooperation & Community
Lesson 1: Migration Part 1
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Copyright 2012 Fun-Arts Folsom, CA www.Fun-Arts.com Fun-Arts@chrome.se
Lesson Plan: Migration by Nature
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Map: The World
California Geography
Migration
Music: Rimsky-Korsakov
Art Terms: Symmetry,
Collage, Negative Space
Craft Time!
Where is California?
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There are ___ continents. Can you name them?
California:
Geography
What is a:
Title
Map
Map Legend
Scale
Compass
Rose
Coast
What is Migration?
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Migration: when a community
moves from one area to another.
Plants, animals, and even
humans migrate.
California is a great example of
migration.
More than 600 species of birds
call California home and depend
on a diversity of habitats as they
travel along the “Pacific Flyway”,
a superhighway for birds
migrating between Alaska and
Patagonia.
Migration by Birds
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Some birds migrate north or south,
depending on the weather.
Sandhill cranes can fly over 400
miles a day!
What shape do geese make in the
sky when they fly together?
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Do emus
migrate
through
California?
Migration by Whales
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Is this a rock?
Nope: just great
camouflage!
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Rock? Yep! Grey whale
painted beach pebble by
Pete Sandker
Grey whales can be seen along the California
coastline as they migrate between the northern
feeding grounds and southern breeding
grounds.
Migration by Butterflies
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In November & December, thousands of Monarch butterflies meet at Pacific Grove, California.
They like the eucalyptus trees there.
Look at the symmetry of their wings!
Males have a spot on each hind wing. It’s called the androconium. Which one here is male?
Migration of Music
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How can music migrate?
 Radio
 CD’s
 TV
 Internet
 Live performances
People migrate to California from all
around the world.
We enjoy music and traditions from all the
migrant cultures.
In theaters we can enjoy shows with
music and dancing from all nations.
Tempo
Rhythm
Dynamics
Pitch
Melody
Harmony
Music:
Никола́й Андре́евич Ри́мский-Ко́рсаков
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Lived in Russia
1844- 1908
Turned folktales into
operas.
He used melodies from
traditional songs so the
music was familiar to
the audience.
Are both portraits
photographs?
Tempo
Rhythm
Dynamics
Pitch
Melody
Harmony
Illustrations by: Ivan Bilibin (1876 -1942)
Music: Сказка о царе Салтане
“The Tale of Tsar Saltan”
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Opera: a story set to vocal music.
Story is based on a poem by Aleksandr Pushkin.
Plot: Tsar leaves before son Gvidon is born. Mom & son end up riding
up in a barrel on the sea. They land on an island.
Does barrel painting remind you of a certain woodblock print?
The Wave, by Japanese artist Hokusai. First publication: between 1826 and 1833
Line
Shape
Texture
Color
Light
Space
Ivan Bilibin (1876 -1942)
Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910)
Music: Flight of the Bumblebee
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Tempo
A Swan Princess turns Gvidon into an insect 3 times so he can find his father
and help return his mother to the palace.
Which painting is realistic?
Which one is representational, but not realistic?
Rhythm
Dynamics
Pitch
Melody
Harmony
What is Symmetry?
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When something can
be sliced in half and
the two sides match,
it is symmetrical.
Line
Shape
Texture
Color
Light
Space
What is a Collage?
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Collage (“to glue”)
means taking lots of little
pieces, putting them
together, and making
something new.
California is a collage of
people, food, music, and
cultures!
Line
Shape
Texture
Color
Light
Space
What is Negative Space?
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The space
AROUND an
object is
sometimes
called the
“negative
space.”
Look at what
happens to the
negative space
when we
remove the
vase.
Line
Shape
Texture
Color
Light
Space
MIND your MINUTE
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Leave all
items in
front of you.
Cross your
arms.
Rest your
mind for 1
minute.
MUSIC
Track 6: “Native American Meditation Music”
Tempo
Rhythm
Dynamics
Pitch
Melody
Harmony
Craft: Butterfly Collage
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Materials: white paper, black stencil paper, crepe paper, glue sticks, scissors
FRAME (NEGATIVE SPACE):
FOLD black paper halfway along long edge.
DRAW ½ a butterfly along fold. Leave room around edge for “frame”.
CUT butterfly out of the black construction paper along fold.
OPEN to reveal butterfly frame.
SAVE frame for last step.
COLLAGE:
SPREAD GLUE onto white paper.
ADD tissue paper randomly or in patterns - use entire surface.
ASSEMBLE:
GLUE butterfly frame to the top.
Save unused butterfly shapes for rainy day chalk drawings.
Line
Shape
Texture
Color
Light
Space
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Credits
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Fun-Arts lessons are written and produced by Monica Merrill
Vinberg copyright 2012.
Craft plans are written by Christine Krause.
Fun-Arts is a non-profit group hoping to share the world’s fine
arts treasures with the rightful heirs: all children.
Thank you docents: you bring the lessons to life.
Thank you: www.ryanphotographic.com, Patrick Keough
(painter), Spencer Art Museum, Lars Åke Vinberg (photos).
Fun-Arts art supplies are provided in part by the PTA’s at the
schools who use the program.
All photos in Lesson 3-2 and those noted elsewhere are
copyright Lars Åke Vinberg.
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