I am so impressed with my class! The final commission was to create a
mini exhibition display for a fictitious museum. The "experts" agreed
to travel to planets within the Solar System, (there were tensions and
issues along the way) collect rock/dust/gas samples, return to Earth and
create the displays. Criteria for the displays was written and agreed
upon out of role. The Creating, Imagining and Innovating Habit of Mind
was applied along with Thinking Interdependently, as the class decided
to invent aliens to go with the planets they were researching. Each
display features an alien, suited to living on their particular planet,
and I had some brilliant "factual" reports written about these aliens to
go with the models. This is just a quick summary, the class are really
excited about parents coming to view their displays during our school
wide Festival of Learning, and I think they will be impressed. They are
pretty cute!
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| Papier mache was such fun, and the children were able to create display cases that matched their plans exactly! |
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| Saturn in a box! |
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| Planet Earth. No aliens here though! |
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| Mercury's alien looks suspiciously like a cat! |
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| The Sun. Olaf is not an alien, but he loves the sun! |
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Mars, with fuzzy aliens, and it's a good thing they are fuzzy because it is freezing cold on one side of Mars!
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