This is a fantastic theory to use in teaching cultural diversity, community unity and interactions. I would have them identify communities that they are involved in (Church, family, friends, sports etc) and how they had to adapt when these communities changed ( moving, new friends, new babies etc). I think this would really help them to internalize the idea of communities and the relationships. As a science "experiment" I would have them find an ecosystem they were interested in and figure out the food chain of that system and how they are all necessary!
Artists Discussed:
Andy Goldsworthy,
Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July,
Michel Swaine,
Mel Chin,
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Using these textures is a great way for students to explore their classroom and "feel" things rather than "see" them. It would be interesting to find what textures they come up with!
For an older class, I would love to discuss the complexity theory and let them come up with their own complexity projects that follow the four parts as we discussed. I would also love to have them decide what subject matter to focus their project on, whether it be a topic we are discussing in history, science, literature, or something they just want to learn/create/do. I could do the project we did with the class to help them get started, or even just discuss it.
ReplyDeleteIn my own classroom, I think it would be fun to have the students create a few different habitats. For example, they could create the ocean (like we did), do land animals that live near the ocean, and then do the sky.
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of spontaneous learning. One thing I'd like to do in my classroom is to have a thing similar to the "Learning to Love You More." At the beginning of the year, everyone could come up with an idea for an assignment, and then each week throughout the year, we could have a time set aside to do that assignment.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be cool to use Andy Goldsworthy to talk about nature and the environment. This could lead to a discussion about doing eco-friendly projects. Recycling could be incorporated and we could use old newspapers to create collages and other projects. The crocheting with plastic bags could also be used. I also like the idea suggested by Brooke that students create art pieces made with only materials found in nature. The ideas about students creating their own complexity projects are really awesome and I think they would be a great thing to include in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteI think to further the lesson, I would pose the question to the kids of what life would be like if either everything was living, or everything was non-living. Since we live in an environment with both living and non-living things, what would it would be like if the 2 were no mixed? Have them come up with their own ideas of worlds with exclusively living or non-living things, draw a picture of it, and present/explain their theory to the class.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be so much to take the students to a University or any kind of college and see how everyone acts around each other. This would definitely show how people work together in a community because here at BYU we are our own little community. We could take what we see on the University level and bring it into out Elementary school, making it our own community as well. We can see what animals live around us or in our town. It would be really neat if somehow the students could use one of their talents or abilities to be like a "Michael Swaine" for our school.
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