Some students explored words – poetry or vocabulary.
This week we completed the PDT2008 curriculum module with an exploration of World War 1. The students used a ThingLink to follow interesting links to stories about World War 1 such as women in WW1, the role of animals, war artists, life at home, local stories, thankful villages and commemoration. You can see the ThingLink here and read more about making and using them here.
One student made a mini diorama, one explored the role of women and two others explored what ‘thankful villages’ were.
After exploring some of this material the students each used a matchbox as the basis for their response – they had to make a small artefact using or contained by the match box. This idea was inspired by the #moreTEA project happening in schools. You can read more about it here – moreTEA
It was interesting to see the different ideas and stories the students followed as they made their creations. You can see all of them on a Pinterest board here.
Some students explored and represented the roles of animals in war.board here. (I think they’re all there, but if yours isn’t please let me know!)
After they had finished their artefacts they were displayed with a title and maker name, and some were annotated with ideas for learning opportunities. Some students are taking the idea into their schools to try out and I’m looking forward to seeing how they develop.
Some students were inspired by the story of the pocket bears.
Two students developed their artefacts further by choosing a piece of music to suit the mood of their work – you can see one of the videos here – Animal Mascots
Another way of developing this idea would be to use the app Pixntell to add a recorded description to go with each photo.
