Teaching Notes     Appropriate Grade Levels: 6-8 (This lesson can be used as the start of a larger art or drafting project and career exploration for students in grades 9-12)   Implementation Time: One class period (45 minutes to one hour) required for basic exercise. An additional class period or more are required if the class moves beyond written descriptions of the garden and into visual depictions.   Click on icon above to download a high resolution file of this page that you can view and print using Adobe Acrobat Reader software. If you do not have this free software, download it from the Adobe site.   Materials Needed: Teaching notes for “Jim Dawson” case study, Student copies of “Jim Dawson,” Notepaper for students to use when writing essays Internet access and/or architecture and landscape architecture books as well as poster paper and art supplies (if students undertake drawing exercise)   Career Pathway: Arts & Communications   Subject Area: Writing, Social Studies/Arts   Learner Outcome(s): What will happen for learners as a result of this lesson?   Students will explore a career opportunity related to international trade and the arts. They will demonstrate their ability to synthesize and summarize technical information about an art form first in words and then in their own artistic representation. They will review the process of collecting and organizing information and then communicating it to others. Through the assignments suggested with this lesson plan, students will demonstrate technical writing and will synthesize what they have learned into an artistic presentation.   Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements: How will students learn? Writing: Students will practice writing clearly and effectively in a variety of forms for different audiences and purposes. Students will practice writing for career applications, producing technical and non-technical documents using resources from career settings. (EALR’s 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.4)   Communication: Students will demonstrate listening and observation skills to gain understanding; will practice communicating ideas clearly and effectively; will demonstrate communication strategies and skills to work effectively with others; and will analyze how communication is used in career settings. (EALR’s 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.4)   Social Studies/Arts: Students will use arts concepts and principles to interpret artworks, understand that the arts are used for widely different functions, locate and acquire information from a variety of sources and organize and synthesize it in meaningful ways to communicate ideans and create artworks, and consider how a work of art grew out of its time and place, was shaped by its time and place, and how it may have had an effect on its culture. (EALR’s 1.5, 3.1, 3.3, 4.4) Click to continue previewing the teaching notes on screen.   Return to Case Studies Archives. Home Journey Log Trade Topics People Profiles Index Ask the Eagle