Exploring Homes and Resources. Students use a variety of resources to search for images of and information about the exchange country's environments and housing. Students create drawings of their own homes and exchange them with another classroom of students in the foreign exchange country. This unit provides an opportunity for art specialists and foreign language instructors to collaborate and engage in team teaching. Learning the Language of Art.
Students learn to explore artworks using the language of aesthetic and critical inquiry.
Students translate their aesthetic and critical knowledge into a foreign language they are studying. Students establish a relationship with another group of students who are studying the same foreign language or have the reverse complement of first and second languages from the first classroom and agree to exchange aesthetic and critical responses to the same images from an Internet site. Students write their aesthetic and critical responses to the common images from Lesson Three in a foreign language and exchange them with the students in the collaborating classroom. Students discuss the responses from the exchange classroom and compare similarities and differences in aesthetic and critical interpretations. Keypals Students will begin communicating over e-mail with students around the world in preparation for future collaborative activities.