Alexey W. Root

The Living Chess Game (eBook, PDF)

Fine Arts Activities for Kids 9-14

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides comprehensive information and guidance for successfully staging a theatrical living chess game for children ages 9-14. It also prepares student to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. Living chess games have been referenced in works from classic authors such as Lewis Carroll and Kurt Vonnegut; this theater art was also mentioned in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. With The Living Chess Game: Fine Arts Activities for Kids 9-14, any parent, librarian, teacher, or after-school instructor can successfully stage an educational and entertaining living chess game. This book will also help educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. The book's chess instruction enables children to perform, with understanding, as living chess pieces. The activities not only instruct students on how to research chess, but also teach a myriad of fine arts skills such as acting, composing music, choreographing movements, designing scenery, and scriptwriting, and the activities address content standards from the National Standards for Arts Education. The author has also provided a "resources and materials" section that explains the cultural reference of each activity's title and lists opportunities for parental involvement, such as tech support and attending students' performances.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781598843811
• Artikelnr.: 37961423

Autorenporträt

Alexey W. Root has a Ph.D. in education from UCLA. Her work history includes public high school teaching (social studies and English). Her most notable chess accomplishment was winning the U.S. Women's championship in 1989. Since the fall of 1999, Root has been a senior lecturer at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). She has taught UTD education classes, tutored prospective teachers for certification exams, and supervised student teachers. Root's current assignment for UTD is to teach, via the UT TeleCampus, online education courses that explore the uses of chess in classrooms. Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators (2006) and Science, Math, Checkmate: 32 Chess Activities for Inquiry and Problem Solving (2008) were both published by Teacher Ideas Press.

Inhaltsangabe

? Chapter 1 Fine Arts and Chess Activities Fit Available Time Fine Arts
Standards Overview of Chapters Kid-Tested Activities Chess Equipment and
Knowledge ? Chapter 2 Music Activity One: The Music of the Knight Activity
Two: From Moves to Grooves Activity Three: Chess in Concert ? Chapter 3
Dance and Visual Arts Activity Four: Chess Boxing Activity Five: Brains and
Brawn Activity Six: The Art of Chess Activity Seven: All the World's a
Chessboard ? Chapter 4 Theater Activity Eight: Immortal and Evergreen
Activity Nine: No Small Parts Activity Ten: Tech and Check Activity Eleven:
The Living Chess Game Activity Twelve: Talent Show ? Chapter 5Chess Basics
Rules of Chess Win, Lose, or Draw Reading and Writing Chess Internet Sites
for Practicing Chess Appendix A Answer Key Appendix B References Appendix C
Chess Scripts Glossary Index