Concentration Topic > The Positivity Portfolio

Concentration Topic > The Positivity Portfolio

Required:

Complete > everything highlighted in yellow.

The Big Idea:

Photography has the power to move us to become more positive.

Essential Questions:

• How will photography help me become more positive?
• Why is positivity beneficial?
• What is a Positivity Portfolio?

Concepts:

• Positivity changes how your mind works.
• You can train your mind to increase your positivity.
• Positivity transforms us for the better. (more receptive and creative)
• Positivity Portfolios trigger your own positive upward spiral toward flourishing.

Standards:

• Understand and apply > media, techniques, and processes with skill
• Use design > principles and functions
• Choose and evaluate > subject matter and ideas
• Reflect upon and assess > the characteristics and merits of both mine and other’s work
• Make connections > between my art and other aspects of life

Goal: Know that positivity is beneficial and can be elicited through images.

Access Prior Knowledge:

Instructional Strategy

• Cues and Questions

Learning Activity

Elicit Prior Knowledge > Positivity Alphabet > http://goo.gl/AISH6o

• View Responses > http://goo.gl/g9EJpQ

New Information:

Instructional Strategy

• Cues and Questions

Learning Activity

Narrative Organizer > Build Your Best Future - KWL > http://goo.gl/jVlwKP  

• View Responses > http://goo.gl/x7A7gK

Read > Handout - The Positivity Portfolio > https://goo.gl/KNExh7

Apply Knowledge & Skills:

Instructional Strategy

• Cues and Questions

Learning Activity

Social Dialogue > Socratic Seminar > Achor: The Happy Secret > http://goo.gl/OMkSuf

• Responses > http://goo.gl/dlgcmZ

Supplemental Information >

• Watch > Peter McGraw: What Makes Things Funny > http://goo.gl/q0qQcl
• Watch > Alan Watts: The Secret of Happiness > http://goo.gl/RTWunN
• Watch > Sir Ken Robinson: Laughter > http://goo.gl/8THxFl
• Watch > Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our Future > http://goo.gl/bua7B7
• Transcript > Abundance is our Future > http://goo.gl/NrO1Dt
• Watch > Alan Watts: Playing the Game of Life > https://goo.gl/MFLjx8

Generalize, Reflect & Publish:

Required Work Checklist:

• Elicit Prior Knowledge > Positivity Alphabet > http://goo.gl/AISH6o
• Narrative Organizer > Build Your Best Future - KWL
• Social Dialogue > Socratic Seminar > Achor: The Happy Secret > http://goo.gl/OMkSuf