The Art of Sustainability

LEARNING PATHWAY CREATED BY THE LEARNING COMMUNITY


The Art of Sustainability

Authors: Dr G. Scally, I. Roche, P. Mackenzie

Overall aims:

  • Identifying opportunities to keep materials in use
  • Identifying opportunities to design out waste
  • Understand the need for beauty
  • Develop entrepreneurial skills
  • Be expressive through art

Intended learning outcomes:

The child will be able to:

  • Collaborate with others
  • Use the NASA best Engineering model as a support
  • Be creative with minimal resources

Evaluation:

Through attuned interactions and relationships, natural conversations and play episodes, the teacher gathers data to document the children’s learning.

Pathway structure

The learning pathway is composed by 3 activities in total over 13 weeks

Stage I – What’s the story?

Day one, the children and teacher, using the Nasa Best Engineering model, develop a story that can be represented as either a live theater performance or a film.

Stage II – Setting the scene

Whether the children and teacher develop  a film or a live theatre production, they will need a set and costumes. Using the Nasa best engineering model, they create all  entirely out of repurposed and upcycled materials. They buy nothing, the budget is zero.

Stage III –  Showtime

Using the Nasa Best Engineering model, the teacher and students invite family and friends to a screening/live performance. Again, the budget is zero.

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