A group of children are looking at some books filled with beautiful pictures of a coral reef. Marcus says to Ezra, “Do you think it’s white seaweed…it might be broccoli?” Ezra replies, “Yeah its broccoli…no broccoli is green, thats white”. “Yeah its white seaweed” Marcus exclaims returning to his original hypothesis. “White broccoli is called cauliflower, it must be cauliflower” says Ezra. The boys carried on talking and sharing their knowledge and with the guidance of the teacher began to build an understanding of what a coral reef is. Between them they established that a coral reef is where fish feed and that it is like our garden we have outside at Explorers and some of us have at our homes; but instead it is under the sea. This short indepth investigation went for several weeks and involved quite a number of children over that period. The painting here was produced by some of those children who collaborated to produce their representation of a garden in the sea. The children produced this piece of work over several weeks through revisiting the project and adding further layers until they felt the coral reef was complete.
Coral Reef on large canvas - representation done by a group of children using acrylic paints
STATS
CHILDREN Marcus, Angel, Dj, Particio, Dacoda, Aston, Alex, Jade, Mishaal, and others
TEACHER Allie Covell & Jessica Jordan
PROJECT Paint representation of a Coral Reef
INVESTIGATION “Garden in the sea”
KEY LEARNING Biology, literacy, collaboration, fine motor skills, creative expression, mixing colours.
by on January 5, 2010 ·
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