Today our Art 20 class had a guest speaker - Mr. Brandt. We are learning about global warming because it relates to our next artwork, and I want students to have some background knowledge about the topic before they start creating art about it. Mr. Brandt explained that while our planet has always gone through various phases of warming and cooling, it has never done so at such a fast rate. Historically, the earth has all kinds of ways that it seeks to balance change in its biosphere; but in today's fast-paced modern world, it can't keep up to the changes at play. One of the effects of global warming is the melting of the polar ice caps. They are deteriorating at a much faster rate than they ever have before. Mr. Brandt shared how he was one of five teachers selected to go to the arctic this summer and saw the polar ice caps up close - you can read more about that program here. Thanks to the smart board in my room, we zoomed in on some of the places he was talking about via Google Earth and then turned on the document camera so that he could walk students through photographs he had taken on his trip. Finally, Mr. Brandt took students' questions - they were fascinated by all things arctic. It was an engaging, informative, lesson and I loved how both of our subjects are interconnected through this topic.
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Joshua Hysaw
11/20/2020 09:01:29 am
just looking through for my arts in humanities project and this just surprises me on how little people know about the effects of global warming this word needs to be spread abroad on the highest level from regular citizen to international leaders
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AuthorSarah Gerrard teaches Visual Arts 9-12 at Warman High School. She recently received a grant from the Prairie Spirit Schools Foundation to infuse her courses with STEAM. Archives
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