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5th Grade Art: Semi-flipped Classroom, Google Classroom and African Ceramic Masks

We will be starting our African clay mask unit. The students have access to video and link resources in Google classroom. This is what may be called a flipped or semi-flipped classroom by having the resources available ahead of time and/or for review. See this link: Dragon Google Art Classroom.

Screenshot of links in 5th gr Google Classroom

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