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DA#20 – Creative Land Art

Does nature influence our emotions?

Yes! 

We just have to look for the sounds that involve us in our daily routine and associate them at what each one feels.

In the kindergarten or at home with the families: we listen to the sound that surrounds us and we record the ones that awaken us some emotions. We observe and collect nature elements to build land art. The pictures taken from the land art will be shared in the ClassDojo app.

An idea from

Educators team- AESA– Barreiro/Portugal

Time

5 activities (20 minutes each)

Age

3-5 years

Objective

  1. Identify and describe different sounds of nature.
  2. Use different digital tools to support the pedagogical activities carried out daily and learn to respect safety rules when using them.
  3. Develop aesthetic sense from an artistic composition using different elements of nature.
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#nature #art #emotions #photography#sounds#Landart#audiorecorder

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DA#19 – A Magical Forest

How can we create a (magical) forest inside the classroom?

In this atelier the forest as a natural environment is explored and its magically interpreted.  First children are accompanied to an exploration in nature to observe and explore a forest, a park, a garden.  Trees, leaves, branches, gathering fruit, leaves or pine cones will ignite curiosity, and become the starting point for a creative experience at home with the family. At school,  children create a magical forest through a collaborative immersive set-up. The forest is composed of natural elements, children’s drawings that become luminescent in the dark, projections and a personalized forest soundtrack that they create with a composition app.

An idea from

Ciulla Letizia – Maria Domenica – Floriddia Corrada – Benini Roberta – Catanese Liliana – Giorgetti Cinzia – Zavalloni Stefania, ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Scuola dell’Infanzia di Villamarina”, Cesenatico – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

5 activities (1 hour each)

Age

3-5 years

Objective

  1. Exploring nature.
  2. Emotional experiences through awe and wonder.
  3. Enhancing creative skills.
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#nature #art #movement #immersiveenvironments #blacklight

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DA#18 – Tracks

Can technology help us experience the sounds and characteristics of the urban environment within school walls?

Children will have fun building tracks and vehicles with various materials, to then add sounds, obstacles and populate the track more and more, while playing with their peers. At home with the family, the children will use their phones or tablets to record sounds from the street or take pictures of possible hazards they would like to put on their tracks.  The tracks are then “animated” at school with the audio and video materials that children activate on a device when passing a possible hazard or sound position. At the end, each child will make a video “on the road” using the phone’s camera and the constructed vehicle to record the track from the vehicle’s point of view.

An idea from

Vincenza Rocco – Rosanna Tacchini,  ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Scuola Materna Parrocchiale di Bolzone”, Bolzone – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

7 activities (30 – 40 min each)

Age

3-4 years

Objective

  1. Play collaboratively with other children.
  2. Develop problem solving strategies.
  3. Creative and active use of digital.
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#nature #urbanspace #movement #sound

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DA#17 – Hunting Trees

How can we build emotional bonds with nature using the digital?

The atelier is the beginning of a “Tree Hunt”: children at school with educators and at home with family members search the area for trees that are significant to them in terms of shape, size or emotional ties and photograph them. The educators will create 2 padlets, one where the children and families will share the photos of the trees they meet outside and one where they  create a map open to all where everyone can point out a tree, locate it on the map and try to classify it. The map will always be active and will be shared with families, local associations and neighbouring schools so that other children can find the various trees and visit them, but also add new ones.

An idea from

Copetti Tiziana –  Giorgini Francesca –  Maur Antonella – Pascolo Daniela – Picogna Francesca, ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Rosa Simonetti”, Montenars – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

6 activities (30-45  min each)

Age

3-5 years

Objective

  1. Reassessing the natural environment.
  2. Building emotional bonds with nature.
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#nature #emotions #openmaps #images#padlet

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DA#16 – Creative Paint Brushes

Can the leaves or needles of a tree become a paint brush?

How does a paint brush work? Can a paint brush be made using natural materials? In this atelier children try to find the answers to these questions by exploring natural environments and doing creative experiments both in the classroom and at home with their families.  The materials will be transformed by the children into special craft brushes with which they will enjoy painting canvases of various shapes and colours either in Kindergarten as well as at home.  At the end of the atelier, the children collaborate on the creation of an installation containing all their works and special QrCodes.

An idea from

Mina Marianna, Vandi Ludovica,  Innocenti Stefania, ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Scuola dell’infanzia Arcobaleno”, Coriano  – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

7 activities (30 min each)

Age

3-5 years

Objective

  1. Exploring natural tools elements and tools.
  2. Strengthening emotional ties within the family.
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#nature #art #QRCode #images

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DA#15 – Like a Tree

What if I change like a tree?

In this atelier children experience how trees are all different and how they change according to the seasons. Then they discover that they too, like trees, are all different, even though they have many things in common. Each child follows a tree near home and observes it changing over the course of the seasons, the photos of the trees are transformed into silhouettes to be decorated as desired. A main colour palette will be extracted and used by the children to create beautiful self-portraits, where the colours of the trees become the colours of their face, creating a deep connection between the child and the tree.

An idea from

Attardo Lucia – Borgolotto Maria Chiara – Buso Emanuela – Forner Roberta – Tonon Sabrina –  Vedovelli Giuliana – Vidotto Chiara, ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Tre Piere”, Oderzo – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

7 activities (about 40 min each)

Age

5 years

Objective

  1. Identify natural transformations.
  2. Development of expressive, artistic, visual and multimedia languages.
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#nature #art #colours #images

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DA#14 – Nature in Projection

How are shadows generated and what lays behind (or in front of) them?

Children discover the nature of shadows and the properties of projection through a series of experimentation activities with different light sources and materials.  At school, in a dark room, they will first experiment what happens when the light from the projector passes through natural materials (leaves, flowers, branches, stones), through coloured transparent materials,  to afterwards  discover what the materials look like if they give a “closer look”, through the lenses of a digital microscope.  At home, children and parents will go for a “shadow hunt” and experiment with different light sources and materials, also thanks to a “transition” box, which the children take home from school and vice versa.

An idea from

Sara Battistel – Cristina Zecchin, ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Tre Piere”, Oderzo – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

8 activities (30 min each)

Age

4-5 years

Objective

  1. Knowledge of the projector, as a technological tool.
  2. Discovery and exploration of shadows.
  3. Peer collaboration.
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#nature #sciences #mediaeducation #projection #digitalmicroscope

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DA#13 – Photo-Safari with Flowers

Is there a change of perspective to the world when you look at nature through a camera?

Taking photos with the tablet is very easy and children can use the device independently after a quick tutorial with the teacher. But children should not just snap pictures on a photo safari. They learn to take and select photos consciously. They can review photos, reflect on the content, and learn that beauty is seen subjectively. 

Young children who cannot read are able to distinguish different plants through photos and can use an app for plant identification together with adults. This way teachers, parents and children can spend time together in nature and learn about flora and fauna.

Nature has always been a great inspiration for artists. Through the close observation of flowers and plants, creativity is stimulated, and feelings can be expressed. To explore and learn more about famous paintings, children accompanied by adults can use children’s search engines on the Internet and have their first experience of safe image search.

An idea from

JFF-Institut für Medienpädagogik

tested with Integrationskindergarten Westendstrasse, Munich, Germany

Time

3 activities (30 minutes each)

Age

4-6 years

Objective

  1. Learn to use photography as a design, expression, communication, and presentation medium.
  2. Express own perspectives on the world and certain topics using photography.
  3. Explore and express feelings. Be inspired by artists and create artwork yourself.
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#nature #photography #images #environment #colours #art

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DA#12 – Nature through Seasons

How does nature change through the seasons?

YES!

In this atelier, children discover the differences between the four seasons. They walk outside and seek for clues to find out what season it is.

Creating digital images is an important skill for the new generation. Using a simple app, they will learn to remove a background from a photograph: a technique used in the media industry. This atelier will raise awareness towards media and how advertisements are created.

Watch the video trailer here: https://tube.tchncs.de/w/iCc2fwZc4onPrWTdm8AG8j

An idea from

La Fabulerie, Marseilles, France, Tested with: Ecole Maternelle Pommier, Marseilles, France

Time

5 activities (around 20 minutes each)

Age

5-6 years

Objective

  1. Discovering photo editing apps.
  2. Walk outside, exercise.
  3. Create your first digital art.
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#nature #portrait #advertising #photography #mediaeducation

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DA#11 – Nature in the City

How to convey a sound and visual environment?

YES!

During this workshop, pupils explore the themes of sound and image. They are encouraged to observe their immediate environment: their school or home neighbourhood. Is this environment rather urban or natural? What elements are associated with the city? And with nature? What do they see? What do they hear? What does a sound say? How can sound and images complete one another? Walking through different places together, the children capture these environments in sounds and images using a camera and a Dictaphone. 

At the end of the workshop, the children make a “sound bingo” to be played with the family and other classes.

An idea from

Christine Gerards, Roton nursery school, Charleroi – Belgium, in co-design with Média Animation ASBL

Time

Around 4 hours, 4 activities in school and 3 activities at home.

Age

4-5 years

Objective

  1. Observe one’s environment, recognise sounds and sound effects and associate them with a photo/a corresponding image.
  2. Take, sort and choose photos for a specific goal.
  3. Identify sounds and record them.
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#nature #photography #sound #environment #mediaeducation