Scrap Planet : Recreate your world in a day
Raising Environmental Awareness
Scrap planet is about ecology, art (sculpture), geography and working together. We show how the planet is turning into a huge landfill site by stuffing the planet with rubbish. Kids also use scrap and their rejected tiny plastic toys (mass produced throw away toys like the ones found in Christmas crackers) as part of the Planet's decoration. This helps with ownership of their planet and highlights the problem of a throw away culture.Within Primary Education, this project covers an element of P.S.H.E. Key stage 2, as well as helping to develop a holistic understanding of the interaction between geography and the action of the individual.
Cultural awareness and how we do it.
Initially I show the papier mache sphere that I have made from brown paper. On it I will have demarcated the land masses. As the teams the children are allocated specific continents or the oceans and the air. Most of the kids will then work on their areas away from the globe itself. The children take a fast, hands on investigation into their particular land mass in order to ascertain an essential guide into the physical features of the landscape and some of the relevant animals or ideas connected to it. By scrap modelling and invention we create the contours of the planet. Later we work out types of vegetation that land mass has,and finally find appropriate scrap or make animals / objects that could be seen as emblematic of that culture or landscape.
The cost
The price for a day's workshop in a school can vary, but it would be in the region of £225 per day. For more information or to make a booking please Contact Sara
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