Events Album 

Featuring the Art of

Science, Biology, & Math

"Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle ... " - Black Elk 

Watch for Signs of Climate Change ... record and mitigate.

Link with Scientists ... Fundraise for species ... Chart the rise and fall of eco-diversity in your backyard ... your region ... your province ... your country ... your world ... 

The Power of TWO! 

Student initiated Loonie-Toonie Train - Two students created interest in the plight of koalas during the rampant fires in Australia.  They raised over $2000 in two weeks ... When laid end to end the 'train' stretched the length of the school.

 Brainstorm humble and magnificent mitigation actions the children might choose to undertake.

See the earth as a Grand Creatrix … Improvise! 

Presentation integrating the Creation of the Universe Great Lesson with world mythologies by emerging Montessori guides. 

Lessons of the Land

School Gardens, leaf collage with plant poetry, feasts, history of the plant from its origin – act it / draw it / water-colours of flowers using resist method, seed collages, murals, songs and poems acted and/or illustrated.

Flower Board - In Fall, students collected and pressed leaves and blossoms. We applied them to found boards with gesso, added nature poetry with gel pens and enhanced with chalk pastel. 

School Garden - a whole school labour of love 

Fabulous Fish & Synesthesia 

School trip to the Galapagos Islands 

Mail Box for Galapagos trip - stuffed with letters and art from the younger children to the travellers 

Reiterations on Arithmetic 

Integrate music, nature and arithmetic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA 

Measure everything ... Use numbers, ratios, fractions, equations to express relationships between as many things as are under the sun ... 

Cooking uses math ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQkCBhQd7wM 

Relate mathematics to your school garden project ... planting ... harvesting ... preparing ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR9stxXi3Aw 

Annos Magic Seeds Read Aloud: Approaching Math Through Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_bXp_3pcVE 

Use arithmetic in all aspects of culture: Making numbers into art / using colourful graphs to explore climate change / animal species reproduction / pollution / preservation / explore fractals, geometric pattern in turtle shells, Benoit Mandelbrot's notion of mathematics as a language to talk about clouds ... etc. 

Child Explains Fractals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k-OijCp-BQ 

Is God a Mathematician? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ijcTJhrC0&t=42s 

Patterns, ratios, fractals inspired by nature 

Experience Zoology

Partner with a farm to establish a continuing relationship with the land.

Encourage the children to create animals and ecosystems with a variety of media. (Please never use handouts for them to colour – this tends to quash their creativity – their creations are far more dynamic and interesting than anything from a photocopier!)

Use drama to inhabit the bodies of different species / a drum will help to give shape to the children’s explorations.  Drum – Freeze stops the movement and then you can engage one of the children or yourself to take ‘virtual’ photos.  One, two, three or more children can create one animal.

Make motion-scapes or sound-scapes of different eco-systems.

Good quality puppets – make short write-ups of fascinating habits and survival lessons animals have taught us. Dramatize using one group for each animal. Introduce dramatic conventions such as:

Bodies as objects / rhythm / props / sound effects / scarves and costumes / slow motion / freeze frames / chant / artefact / etc. (each skill can be taught and experimented with separately.)

Make animals using natural materials – clay, copper, found articles etc.

Make puppets from a variety of materials. Knitting is a soothing activity.