Help me give my students the opportunity to create authentic scientific illustrations by having access to high quality specimens.
$860 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
These diverse students attend a small school by design. It's where everybody feels they are a significant part of the community. Social justice and diversity are prioritized through authentic and relevant learning as well.
Students strive to possess a growth mindset; by taking risks, making mistakes, and realizing that learning new skills can be tough, but they can do it.
My students will be ready to take on new challenges, while building the skills they will need in high school and beyond!
My Project
"I can't draw" because: a) You haven't been taught. b) You're too busy to practice. c) You just don't want to try badly enough. Sound familiar? It is my desire to remove these excuses and give my students instruction, time, and encouragement. I want my students to be "in the zone"; totally absorbed by and enjoying the task at hand.
These specimens allow for up-close examination, which will help students record more accurate observational sketches of the natural world.
Because each specimen is embedded in clear resin, students will be able to explore specimens from all positions and directions.
Students can get frustrated because they don't "nail it" on the first try. It is a myth that all artists do. My students need single-minded "flow experience" where the student is not motivated by some end goal, but is fully engaged in the process itself. It is critical to slow down, discover, and simply observe.
Many artistic skills are useful and applicable to science learning. For instance, careful observation of details is highly useful in both science and art. Visual communication is crucial to representing scientific ideas and modeling science concepts. Practice will, "develop and reinforce the most important of science processing skills; observation and documentation. All other parts of the process of science depend on these skills. We assume that we are naturally good observers, but learning to really see is a skill that must be learned and developed."(John Muir Laws; "The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling")
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