SABES LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Students will use gesture and movement to demonstrate understanding of plant growth while expressing their emotions through body language, fostering both science learning and emotional self-awareness.

WHEN TO USE

• Can be used throughout the unit as a daily practice

OVERVIEW

SETTING UP

DRIVING QUESTION BOARD (DQB)

• DQB templates are included below

STEP ONE

Watch the video below to facilitate the Setting the Day routine:

BRAIN TARGETED TEACHING IN THE CLASSROOM

Learn more about Brain Targeted Teaching via Dr. Mariale Hardiman’s site and explore the arts integrated overlay below:

ROOT BRANCH MEDIA GROUP

BRING ROOT BRANCH TO YOUR SCHOOL!

All video content made in partnership with Baltimore’s Root Branch Media Group.

KAMMERAN TYREE GIGGERS

Kammeran Tyree Giggers, a native of Baltimore Maryland. She completed her Masters of Education in Diverse Leadership in Education from Notre Dame of Maryland. She also received her Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Performing Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design, and her Bachelors of Arts Degree in Acting from North Carolina Central University. Some of her acting credits in productions at various repertory theatre’s across the south and Midwest include: Dreamgirls, Shrek the Musical, The Color Purple, Clybourne Park, and Ragtime to name a few. Kammeran also enjoys giving back to her community through teaching and directing. After traveling around the world as a professional actress, she moved back to Maryland and began her teaching career as a Performing Arts Teacher and Director at The Harbour School. There she coordinated and directed numerous musicals and performances for youth with intellectual disabilities. All of these endeavors have encouraged her to start her own arts nonprofit called R.I.S.E Arts Center of Baltimore Inc. which nurtures the social emotional well being and the creative skill set of neuro-divergent youth and young adults in underserved communities through a multifaceted arts education. Kammeran currently serves as the Executive Director of R.I.S.E where she has impacted over 100 Baltimore City youth and teachers by providing access and inclusion through the arts.

LINDSEY WINAND

Lindsey Winand is a high school science teacher who has taught 11 out of her 12 years of teaching in Baltimore City Public Schools. She has had the privilege of teaching at City Neighbors High School, an arts-integrated, project-based school where each student is known, loved, and inspired. Throughout her time, she has been encouraged by her administration to focus on arts-integrated learning that meets each student where they are and use different modes of learning while integrating arts techniques to encourage creativity and exploration. She has worked with different teaching artists in residencies or different programs through Arts Every Day or Young Audiences, to design projects that inspire her students to pursue learning in a different way and express their strengths. She is a huge science nerd who uses different modes of learning and how the brain works to meet her students where they are and encourage their lifetime learning. She is a proud Colombian who is also the step team coach and a proud dog mom to her pitbull, Karma.

SABES LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Students will use improvised movement, props, and facial expressions to demonstrate understanding of the four basic needs of living things: food, water, air, and shelter.

WHEN TO USE

• Use with SABES Lesson 3

OVERVIEW

SETTING UP

DRIVING QUESTION BOARD (DQB)

• DQB templates are included below

STEP ONE

Watch the video to facilitate the Basic Needs Dance & Song. Lyrics are included below to support implementation. We have also included an optional Accompaniment Track. If possible, make sure to take pictures for the illustrated story map in step two.

STEP TWO

Watch the video below to implement the illustrated story map:

BRAIN TARGETED TEACHING IN THE CLASSROOM

Learn more about Brain Targeted Teaching via Dr. Mariale Hardiman’s site and explore the arts integrated overlay below:

ROOT BRANCH MEDIA GROUP

BRING ROOT BRANCH TO YOUR SCHOOL!

All video content made in partnership with Baltimore’s Root Branch Media Group.

KAMMERAN TYREE GIGGERS

Kammeran Tyree Giggers, a native of Baltimore Maryland. She completed her Masters of Education in Diverse Leadership in Education from Notre Dame of Maryland. She also received her Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Performing Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design, and her Bachelors of Arts Degree in Acting from North Carolina Central University. Some of her acting credits in productions at various repertory theatre’s across the south and Midwest include: Dreamgirls, Shrek the Musical, The Color Purple, Clybourne Park, and Ragtime to name a few. Kammeran also enjoys giving back to her community through teaching and directing. After traveling around the world as a professional actress, she moved back to Maryland and began her teaching career as a Performing Arts Teacher and Director at The Harbour School. There she coordinated and directed numerous musicals and performances for youth with intellectual disabilities. All of these endeavors have encouraged her to start her own arts nonprofit called R.I.S.E Arts Center of Baltimore Inc. which nurtures the social emotional well being and the creative skill set of neuro-divergent youth and young adults in underserved communities through a multifaceted arts education. Kammeran currently serves as the Executive Director of R.I.S.E where she has impacted over 100 Baltimore City youth and teachers by providing access and inclusion through the arts.

LINDSEY WINAND

Lindsey Winand is a high school science teacher who has taught 11 out of her 12 years of teaching in Baltimore City Public Schools. She has had the privilege of teaching at City Neighbors High School, an arts-integrated, project-based school where each student is known, loved, and inspired. Throughout her time, she has been encouraged by her administration to focus on arts-integrated learning that meets each student where they are and use different modes of learning while integrating arts techniques to encourage creativity and exploration. She has worked with different teaching artists in residencies or different programs through Arts Every Day or Young Audiences, to design projects that inspire her students to pursue learning in a different way and express their strengths. She is a huge science nerd who uses different modes of learning and how the brain works to meet her students where they are and encourage their lifetime learning. She is a proud Colombian who is also the step team coach and a proud dog mom to her pitbull, Karma.

SABES LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Students will use gestures and frozen poses to model the steps of pollination, demonstrating understanding of the roles of flowers, pollinators, and pollen transfer.

WHEN TO USE

• Use with SABES Lesson 10

OVERVIEW

SETTING UP

DRIVING QUESTION BOARD (DQB)

• DQB templates are included below

STEP ONE

Watch the video below to facilitate the pollination tableau:

BRAIN TARGETED TEACHING IN THE CLASSROOM

Learn more about Brain Targeted Teaching via Dr. Mariale Hardiman’s site and explore the arts integrated overlay below:

ROOT BRANCH MEDIA GROUP

BRING ROOT BRANCH TO YOUR SCHOOL!

All video content made in partnership with Baltimore’s Root Branch Media Group.

KAMMERAN TYREE GIGGERS

Kammeran Tyree Giggers, a native of Baltimore Maryland. She completed her Masters of Education in Diverse Leadership in Education from Notre Dame of Maryland. She also received her Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Performing Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design, and her Bachelors of Arts Degree in Acting from North Carolina Central University. Some of her acting credits in productions at various repertory theatre’s across the south and Midwest include: Dreamgirls, Shrek the Musical, The Color Purple, Clybourne Park, and Ragtime to name a few. Kammeran also enjoys giving back to her community through teaching and directing. After traveling around the world as a professional actress, she moved back to Maryland and began her teaching career as a Performing Arts Teacher and Director at The Harbour School. There she coordinated and directed numerous musicals and performances for youth with intellectual disabilities. All of these endeavors have encouraged her to start her own arts nonprofit called R.I.S.E Arts Center of Baltimore Inc. which nurtures the social emotional well being and the creative skill set of neuro-divergent youth and young adults in underserved communities through a multifaceted arts education. Kammeran currently serves as the Executive Director of R.I.S.E where she has impacted over 100 Baltimore City youth and teachers by providing access and inclusion through the arts.

LINDSEY WINAND

Lindsey Winand is a high school science teacher who has taught 11 out of her 12 years of teaching in Baltimore City Public Schools. She has had the privilege of teaching at City Neighbors High School, an arts-integrated, project-based school where each student is known, loved, and inspired. Throughout her time, she has been encouraged by her administration to focus on arts-integrated learning that meets each student where they are and use different modes of learning while integrating arts techniques to encourage creativity and exploration. She has worked with different teaching artists in residencies or different programs through Arts Every Day or Young Audiences, to design projects that inspire her students to pursue learning in a different way and express their strengths. She is a huge science nerd who uses different modes of learning and how the brain works to meet her students where they are and encourage their lifetime learning. She is a proud Colombian who is also the step team coach and a proud dog mom to her pitbull, Karma.

SABES LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Students will collaboratively use improvisation to demonstrate understanding of the role of beekeepers and teamwork, building on each other’s ideas to create a shared scene.

WHEN TO USE

• Use with SABES Lesson 14

BENEFITS OF IMPROV

OVERVIEW

SETTING UP

DRIVING QUESTION BOARD (DQB)

• DQB templates are included below

STEP ONE

Watch the video below to facilitate Beekeeper Improv:

STEP TWO

Watch to see a demonstration of Beekeeper Improv in action:

BRAIN TARGETED TEACHING IN THE CLASSROOM

Learn more about Brain Targeted Teaching via Dr. Mariale Hardiman’s site and explore the arts integrated overlay below:

ROOT BRANCH MEDIA GROUP

BRING ROOT BRANCH TO YOUR SCHOOL!

All video content made in partnership with Baltimore’s Root Branch Media Group.

KAMMERAN TYREE GIGGERS

Kammeran Tyree Giggers, a native of Baltimore Maryland. She completed her Masters of Education in Diverse Leadership in Education from Notre Dame of Maryland. She also received her Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Performing Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design, and her Bachelors of Arts Degree in Acting from North Carolina Central University. Some of her acting credits in productions at various repertory theatre’s across the south and Midwest include: Dreamgirls, Shrek the Musical, The Color Purple, Clybourne Park, and Ragtime to name a few. Kammeran also enjoys giving back to her community through teaching and directing. After traveling around the world as a professional actress, she moved back to Maryland and began her teaching career as a Performing Arts Teacher and Director at The Harbour School. There she coordinated and directed numerous musicals and performances for youth with intellectual disabilities. All of these endeavors have encouraged her to start her own arts nonprofit called R.I.S.E Arts Center of Baltimore Inc. which nurtures the social emotional well being and the creative skill set of neuro-divergent youth and young adults in underserved communities through a multifaceted arts education. Kammeran currently serves as the Executive Director of R.I.S.E where she has impacted over 100 Baltimore City youth and teachers by providing access and inclusion through the arts.

LINDSEY WINAND

Lindsey Winand is a high school science teacher who has taught 11 out of her 12 years of teaching in Baltimore City Public Schools. She has had the privilege of teaching at City Neighbors High School, an arts-integrated, project-based school where each student is known, loved, and inspired. Throughout her time, she has been encouraged by her administration to focus on arts-integrated learning that meets each student where they are and use different modes of learning while integrating arts techniques to encourage creativity and exploration. She has worked with different teaching artists in residencies or different programs through Arts Every Day or Young Audiences, to design projects that inspire her students to pursue learning in a different way and express their strengths. She is a huge science nerd who uses different modes of learning and how the brain works to meet her students where they are and encourage their lifetime learning. She is a proud Colombian who is also the step team coach and a proud dog mom to her pitbull, Karma.