Greetings
good gentles all,
I have a small boon to beg of you. The SCA is considered an educational society. We are creating an A&S booklet/ web sight/ data base of lesson plans for A&S projects, similar to the various scouting manuals to further the interests and education of people throughout the known world. We hope to make it part of the SCA page program website, with links, appropriate data fields for easy retrieval of information and all sorts of wonderful things. Although we intend this for the page program it would also be a wonderful and valuable asset to any Arts and Science program.
What we are in need of is information & lesson plans on A&S projects. We are looking
for projects in various subjects that are easy for both first time attempts in
a various skill or craft as well as upper level skills and interests. Things
like basic garb workshops, illumination and/or calligraphy, candle making,
cooking, woodworking, bardic activities, games, dance, chivalry, siege weapons,
armoring (even creating different styles of armor in scaled down sizes from
cardboard),.....if you have done it, can explain it, is SCA related, we want it
included. Do not worry about duplicate entries. If your offering is of a
different skill level, or a different style of doing the same thing (perhaps a
style from another country or time period or using different tools) it is ok
for we plan to include differing ways of various skills if we receive them. We
hope we do. We want to offer a broad spectrum of offerings.
Our audience runs from elementary to high school
level and includes various levels of knowledge coming to the table. So, even if
you think that it is too complicated to be done by small children, give it to
us anyway for we even have teen pages who have skills and access to tools but
limited access to teachers or projects. The programs have access to various tools
and supplies so we also hope that they will be able to use this as a tool to
build their A&S programs and “supply closets”. Give us an A&S project
and we’re fairly sure that we can find an audience that would enjoy and learn
from it. If you have experience writing lesson plans this is ideal but if
not, we can put it into the right format for you. We are including an outline
and explanation of what we will need from you in order to present your project
to the teachers and team leaders.
The
information we need in 10 easy steps
is thus:
1.
Your persona. We want to encourage
many things including persona research and a love for history. We may even
create a separate section for the personas of all who contribute to the book as
a separate lesson plan so a brief bit of who you are and how you got some of
your information would be valuable. Who
you are mundane and how WE can contact you with questions. The contact
information will not be part of the manual!!! It is for our use only and helps
assure a comprehensive well thought out tool to be used by all.
Jane is a
computer analyst in California, in the SCA she is a 12th century……
she became interested in ….
2.
What is the project: A. name
B. A brief description of what your Art/Science
is so we can categorize it correctly.
Type of activity: physco-motor, board game, field game, story time
The
objective of this project. What is
the goal of this lesson
OBJECTI VE: upon completion of this project…
a.
The page will show a basic understanding of xxxxxxxxx
b. The page will show a basic proficiency in xxxxxxx
c. The page will become familiar with XXXXXX
Approximate age and skill level this
project is aimed at:
The
steps needed to do this project.
A. Set
up:
B. Directions to
implement the project: Step by step directions.
You may be an expert in your field, but
the person who has to teach it may be learning the process literally the week
before the class themselves so please do it as if the teacher knows little to
nothing about it. Also there is the possibility that if there is a page that
can’t attend classes then they may do these lessons on their own.
C. Clean
up:
Number
of helpers suggested: their rolls in the class
Approximate
time to complete: (in large groups, in small groups)
A. Set up time
B. Activity time
C. Clean up time
Materials
needed: This is important as depending on the local group this will help
set up what materials have to be purchased, borrowed, or added to the programs
collection of teaching tools. Also, can make the tool instead of borrowing or
buying it? Are there any inexpensive substitutions that may be considered.
This
is very important: We also want to create
a data field to categorize things by materials to make it easier to decide what
you can do!
Safety
issues:
Clean
up issues:
3.
A description of how it was or might
have been done in true period times as well as the modern changes that we are
doing. An example might be a recipe that was listed as “Add an amount of sugar
the equal of the weight of one egg, a dash of salt…” might now be listed as ¼
cup of sugar and a 1/8 teaspoon of salt in the modern translation. Or they hand
stitched the garment in groups much
like a modern quilting bee, this was both a social and learning activity, but
we’re a bit short of time and people of significant skill to complete this
project by hand so we use our trusty Singer Sewing Machine.
4. Historic reference (s):
5. Web
sights and links:
6. Documentation. Please list any and
all books as well as any websites you may have pulled the information from. If this is your web sight please indicate
this to us.
7. For further study or exploration of this
subject may we suggest……. so the
teachers and students can do further research in the project or subject.
8. Any patterns or drawings necessary.
Things like patterns of garb, diagrams of devices, whatever is needed to create
the final result of the lesson.
9. Any helpful hints, concerns, useful
shortcuts, tricks of the trade are also welcome, again noting how this was
a period trick or a modern time-saving shortcut.
10. IMPORTANT: Confirmation that these are your lesson plans and that we have permission to post them for use by visitors to the sight.
Any
resources that are used please try to get permission to use the information if
there is a contact address from the author, or if they post right on their site
that it is free to use for non-profit use then make a note of it (most SCAdian
sites are like this) and give full credit for the information used as well as
the URL for the site or title, ISBN and
publisher for the book you may referance. Since this book/sight is offered to
anyone for free then most people will not have a problem with this. If you can’t contact them then again,
please at the very least give full credit for any information used from their
site and make a note of this to us so we can make sure we are not
infringing on any copyrights.
Again
this booklet/sight is not being sold and is freely offered to those looking for
arts and science projects to do with their groups. It will be updated as often
as we have materials and good gentiles willing to work with us and contribute
to the project! It is a reference source for teachers!
Please
send your lesson plans to:
Mistress
Kis Marika
pages@carillion.eastkingdom.org
Lord
Alsandair O’Caoindhealbhain
moas@carillion.eastkingdom.org
In a
computer friendly format/attachment. If we can not access it we will let you
know!
Snail
Mail:
Mary
Jo Candeletti P. Alex Kenlon
1316
Sylvania Place 1246 Ocean St.
Forked
River NJ 08731 Forked River NJ 08731
If you have
it in a paper format that you can not send electronically please feel free to
send it to us but know that we can not return it.