Pop Culture Pictographs

Over the past three weeks, we have learned about American Pop Culture from 1950 to the 1990s. We talked about important people and events like Rosa Parks standing up for civil rights, Hawaii becoming our 50th state, an unpopular war in Vietman, The Woodstock Festival, technology developments; and how we as American's reacted. We discussed how we- especially the American youth expressed ourselves through art, music and fashion.

We used our technology tools to explore and create projects throughout the summer program. Everyone learned something new and each person had their favorite music or art project.  So we decided to create pictographs to show the most popular music, art and technology among our students and staff.  To prepare for the activity, we studied pictographs on Brainpopjr.   We have sought out several very informative videos and activities on Brainpopjr  throughout the summer.

Check out the video on pictographs here:brainpopjr pictograph video

Here's what we created on the SmartBoard to display our data:

Here's what our pictographs revealed about our class:

1. We liked music from the 60s and 70s best.

2. Our favorite artist was Mark Rothko. Students liked how he used color to express emotion.

3. Our favorite technology: an old time record player! Even though we love our iPods, we enjoyed playing records!