Arts
One-Point Perspective: A Road to the Vanishing Point
Students learn horizon line, vanishing point and convergent lines, sequence the steps for drawing a box, and then draw a box and a road in one-point perspective.
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English language arts
Point of View Experiments: Whose Eyes Are We Looking Through?
Students identify first, second and third person narration in one scene, then rewrite the scene from two different viewpoints.
Social studies
Psychology Then and Now: Perspectives and Branches
Students match the major schools of psychology to their key ideas, then sort real-world research scenarios into the branches of psychology.
Social studies
The Culture Iceberg: Customs, Values, and Misunderstandings
Students sort visible and hidden parts of culture, then analyze made-up misunderstandings between communities.
English language arts
The Sandwich Incident: Point of View in Humor
Students read an original humorous first-person story, analyze how the narrator’s point of view shapes what we know, and rewrite a scene from another character’s view.