Maker Space
A Maker Space is a collaborative workspace offering a learning environment that allows for creative opportunities that result in visual evidence of learning.
The IRC acts as a flexible learning space that inspires creativity, curiosity, and is inclusive.
Maker Space activities compliments quality teaching which underpins life long learning both academic and social. Creativity fosters both student autonomy and group collaboration, ignites student interest, enables problem solving through experimental play, develops knowledge-gathering skills, uses hands-on learning and focus on creativity, art, play and do-it-yourself projects.
Psalm 89:11 - The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.
MAZE CHALLENGE
'The Column of Life’s Journey’ invites the viewer to visually take a journey from the ocean to the floor. The maze has more than one solution but has many opportunities for being stopped. This means you need to retrace your steps and try another path. Eventually you will succeed but on the way even 'mistakes' will offer a rewarding experiences. Discovery, taking initiative, building resilience and risk taking makes the journey more valuable than the final destination.
The Maze is also a part of the overall political message of respecting our waterways. Plastic in our waterways eventually makes it's way to the ocean and likewise plastics from our oceans eventually enters waterways.
What role do artists play in communicating environmental issues?
How does this work reflect the Christian values of custodianship of the environment?
Along the way collect the 5 golden spiritual blessings.
Water - Cup- The Cup of Christ The Gospel of Matthew (26:27-29) says: And He took a cup and when He had given thanks He gave it to them saying "Drink this, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Compassion- Tears- Jesus wept “man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” (Isaiah 53:5).
Eternal- Ring- The ring: the commitment between God and man and father and son that has no beginning and no ending. It is also a representation of God's love.
Growth - Flower- The beauty of flowers and the way they bloom and flourish makes them a good image for many spiritual themes, including love, transience, and the glory of God.
Warmth- Sun Psalm 113:3- From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised!
Take 3 for the Sea
This project is to designed for students to personally acknowledge their concern for plastics in the ocean and make a promise to pick up plastic from the beach or waterways.
Step 1. By adopting a bubble and creating a personal design students take the first step to make a difference. They are taking time to respect clean water. REFLECTION.
Step 2. Hand in a pastic bottle top to the IRC to register and place it in the 'promise 'container. COMMITMENT.
Step 3. Hand in 3 pieces of small collected plastic obtained from the beach to IRC. ACTION.
Step 4. Place plastic into bag provided by the IRC with 'Promise Pledge'. Add to installation. VISIBLE EVIDENCE.
Step 5. Tell others about plastics in the ocean. Join in by creating a plastic ocean. COMMUNICATING. COLLABORATION
Step 6. Make picking up plastic on the shore line a life time habit. PERSONAL GROWTH.
My Name:
My Promise💦 Take 3 for the Sea.
💧 I promise that I will be mindful of clean oceans and waterways.
💧 I promise to respect all water creatures by not littering.
💧 I promise that I will pick up plastics or rubbish that has been washed up on the shoreline whenever possible.
💧 I promise I will talk to others or use social media to make others aware of the effects plastic has in the ocean.
👍 Thank you for promising to make a difference in this world.
According to the UN, more than 8 million tonnes of plastic ends up in the oceans each year, harming marine wildlife, fisheries and tourism, and costing at least $8 billion in damage to marine ecosystems.
Almost 80% of all litter in our oceans is made of plastics!
Year 7 and Year 8 Science classes have come into the IRC to learn about plastics in the ocean and to join together as collaborative artists to create an art installation that acts a s a political voice. The use of a fan makes the work move (kinetic).
The gentle movement of the artwork overhead creates a beautiful calming effect which in itself is ironic as we should all be alarmed at the amount of plastic in our waterways and oceans.
International efforts Prince Harry and Meghan Markle asked for people give to charities instead of giving wedding gifts Surfers Against Sewage .
What opinion do you have of people who bring awareness to plastics in our oceans?
PLASTIC! PUT A LID ON IT. Recycle
2022 Stage 4 reflection day activity.
'Goosebumps
Students read a page of a discarded Goosebump book and Illustrate over the top of text. Adding onomatopoeia text.
Visual Arts- Expressive drawing- Portraiture - Post modern installation
English- Reading - 'onomatopoeia'.
By focusing on text and image making students experience books as a tool to set real world issues aside for a moment and escape into an imaginative world. This 'inside a book' world provides joy excitement and journey for the reader. By sharing 'story' the reader makes connection with others.
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Graphic Novel wallet making .
To compliment Year 7 reading challenge which included the reading of Graphic novels students at recess and lunch celebrated 'Graphic Novel Week' by making their own graphic wallets.
Cross- curricular- Visual Arts /Photograph/Drama/ Reading.
This activity is about the importance of capturing a moment in time and sharing that memory to another by the act of giving.
Students learn:
that giving brings joy to others as the person receiving the gift feels that you care about them.
that when they give to others it can have a direct positive effect on your own mental wellbeing.
that gifts do not need to be expensive.
personally made gifts that took your time to make are the most appreciated.
Small acts of kindness towards other people, or larger ones – such as volunteering in your local community – can give you a sense of purpose and make you feel happier and more satisfied about life.
BOX OF POSITIVE THINKING.
Students draw a box using the technique of 'One Point Perspective'. Each box is to represent a box containing future hopes, aspirations and positive energy.
This collaborative project is intended to have students discuss problem solving to create the illusion of depth, as well as discuss what their box represents. Shared learning through conversation & creative practice. This creative project supports social and emotional wellbeing.
MEET BOB.
‘Bob’ is a painting that you own! The Australian Government bought ‘Bob’ in 1970. You can see ‘Bob’ in the National Gallery in Canberra.
It is a large painting not a photograph. 227cm X 213cm. Chuck Close created this by dividing his canvas into small workable parts GRID.
You are an Australian citizen ’and therefore you are a part owner of Chuck Close’s work, ‘Bob’.
Get to know Bob by reproducing his face using TONAL GRADATION - DRAWING
6 = Black 6B graphite pencil
5-2 = Grey scale HB- 4B graphite pencil
1= left blank
Bob reminds us that sometimes breaking challenges down into manageable chunks can achieve results that you previously thought were impossible.
Drawn to Surfing
Inspired by the book 'Aloha to Zen the art of surfing and living on Earth ' by Fern Levack.
Students share surfing experiences by drawing a simple illustration of a wave or images associated with beach culture and surrounding it a brief narrative.
Student choice. Each individual wave unique to the artist.
Promotes wellbeing, freedom with creativity and shared passion of surfing.
Ink on cardboard. back image by Maggie Roth
Finlay Millar Year 8
Mrs Broome
What does social media, Wikipedia and holes in a table have in common?
Students have fun creating drawings that trick the brain. Focus is on a fun activity where drawing skills are learnt and mastery over the tricks encourage conversations about illusions, deceptions ,reality and truth.
What appears to be truth on further examination is untrue. The same applies to many aspects of social media and many websites.
Before accepting information research many points of view. Buyer beware.
I see sea shells by the sea shore.
Reflection of the beauty of nature. ALLITERATION and OBSERVATION DRAWING.
Alliteration is a term that describes a literary stylistic device. Alliteration occurs when a series of words in a row (or close together) have the same first consonant sound. For example, “She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore”
5 Friendship Groups
Students reflect in the value of friendship and friendship groups. Each petal of a frangipani symbolically represents a friendship group that share similar interests.
School friends, sporting friends, work friends, music friends, surfing friends, online friends e.t.c
Students thread a length of fishing line though a hole in an ice cream stick, which has text that values friendship on it. Secure. Students then thread each frangipani onto the line . Secure end with a paper clip. Hang in doorway. The installation in the doorway is important as the flowers act as a movable screen and requires sensitivity to navigate through and tenderness that inspires calm and promotes reflection.
While watching the flowers spin with a gentle breeze students reflect on the diversity of friends they have and the value they add to their lives.
( 16/3/18 -National Day of Action- Anti Bullying and Violence )
Puzzle and Place.
Wellbeing + Geography +Teamwork + Discovery + Conversations of Travels.
Why play Scrabble? There are many different reasons to play Scrabble. Scrabble is not only a mental exercise, but it's also a social game. Scrabble lets people discuss the language while competing. Scrabble lends itself to calm study of the board, so Scrabble is a game for people with level heads. When you play Scrabble, you work through challenges in a calm and reasoned fashion. Scrabble is relaxing, because it forces the player to forget my everyday concerns and concentrate on problem solving. Scrabble is a mental stimulant, but a pleasant one.
WHY PLAY CHESS?
Sparks your creativity:
Playing chess helps unleash your originality, since it activates the right side of the brain, the side responsible for creativity. ... Increases problem-solving skills: A chess match requires fast thinking and problem-solving on the fly because your opponent is constantly changing the parameters.
Did you know that in many schools around the world Chess is a subject? Did you know you can go to uni in England and become a qualified chess teacher?
Fold and Fly- an Algorithm of Appreciation
Studies on distances flown by honeybees show that the foraging range varies considerably according to species and food availability, but most workers tend to stay within 5 km of their hive.
Butterflies help pollinate flowers the same ways bees do by going to flower to flower carrying pollen. By following an algorithm and folding paper students create a flying creature.
To the left a flowchart depicting a friendship algorithm from the television show The Big Bang Theory: This humorously illustrates the character's attempt to distill the art of making friendships into an algorithm. However, it does accurately depict how an algorithm works by making decisions based upon inputs.
Algorithm - Get ready to code!
Algorithm- a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations.
A guessing Game - play a little game to give you an idea of how different algorithms for the same problem can have wildly different efficiencies.
