Over the past few months a team of us have been developing the new children’s scavenger hunt that will take place in the galleries the fourth Saturday of June, July and August this summer. The hunt will focus on the two newest exhibitions in the galleries Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape and Being Here is Better Than Wishing We’d Stayed by Miss Rockaway Armada. Not only have we been having great discussions about how to pull themes from both exhibitions, including recycling and conservation, into the hunt but we have also been making prototypes for art projects. Today we had our first prototype meeting and I thought you might be interested in seeing what we have been working up.
Upside down plants prototype 1.
Upside down plants prototype 2 + 3.
And our Education Coordinator Alison showing off her plant prototype and a camouflage crown she created.
Cheers,
Brittany
Posted June 3, 2008 by Brittany Bishop
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July 15th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
It is admirable that you are striving to come up with educational projects in sync with themes of recycling and conservation. Can you share with me what it is that the upside down plant prototype has to do with either of these themes? Do you think the health and well-being of the plant might improve by hanging upside down? It would be a most stressful position for us people, and certainly wouldn’t conserve us or our use of energy in the least! As educators, do you think it might be important to answer the question of how the plant is effected when forced to live upside down? Thinking about recycling and conservation ought to open our minds to the myriad ways we impact the living planet including ALL of its creations–you and I and the plants too.