After dancing the choreography of the earth’s waters for a while, some fifteen or twenty minutes, the students return to their desks and now proceed to work on making their own text books. Text is written by them or dictated by the teacher if specific information must be precisely verbalized. The students execute drawings, illustrations and graphs as needed. Everything is compiled into a carefully and artistically designed book. This will be the record of work for this block of studies. Much of this work may be done as homework. Obviously, each student has assignments for individual research, on which she or he reports to the class. And the topic of the oceans, with which we began this description, is rounded out, on prior and subsequent days, to an overview of other areas of earth science, namely the mineral solid sphere of the earth, mountain ranges and possibly plate tectonics, details about the atmosphere and its layers, and particularly how the oceans, the hydrological cycle and the prevailing winds, plus specific local conditions, create weather in a general overview of meteorology, including different cloud formations, and finally a picture of the volcanoes of the earth. In short, all elements are active on the body of our planet: water, fire, air, and the earth or mineral realm. In each of the sections of earth science poetic/artistic work precedes discussion, movement choreography illustrates details, and bookwork concludes these efforts by distilling everything into a conceptual whole.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:46:35 +0000
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