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Making a rainstick

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A lesson plan for Grade 2 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education

Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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2
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The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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In this lesson from ARTSEDGE, students learn about the history of the musical instrument called a rainstick. They experience rain and create a poem about their feelings and thoughts in the rain. Next, they read a story involving rainsticks, derived from a Native American tale. The class discusses the differences and similarities involving the use, appearance, and ceremonial aspects of the rainstick, then briefly discuss myths, folktales, and fables in relation to the story. Students then construct a rainstick to use as they recite their poem to the class.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 2

  • Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
    • Objective 2.01: Become familiar with additional art media, techniques and processes that may include:
      • Cut paper - tape
      • Printmaking - styrofoam, water soluble printing ink
  • Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
    • Objective 5.02: Identify selected characteristics of art from a particular culture.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 2

  • Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
    • Objective 2.02: Use text for a variety of functions, including literary, informational, and practical.
    • Objective 2.08: Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and maps.
  • Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
    • Objective 3.01: Use personal experiences and knowledge to interpret written and oral messages.
    • Objective 3.04: Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard. (e.g., read aloud by teacher, literature circles, interest groups, book clubs).
  • Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective 4.06: Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products (e.g., narratives of personal experiences, creative stories, skits based on familiar stories and/or experiences).
    • Objective 4.08: Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.