Hosted by OSOS , contributed by margarita dakoronia on 8 June 2021
The weather detectives are children 7-11 aged from Greece, they study the weather and especially how the clouds are created. As we studied the weather and the clouds, we met Luke Howard, the first scientist to name clouds’ species around 1800. The English painter Constable was also inspired by the clouds of Howard. John Constable painted clouds in all his paintings. First of all we created a movie as a fairy tale for the clouds, the names and where they live. And we did art crafts with cloud species. The weather detectives after learning about Howards's cloud species, the land of clouds, the troposphere, and experimenting with the liquefaction and evaporation of water as true scientists continued their research in art. So we met Constable who was inspired from Howard’s clouds. We searched for Constable in Europeana to see his paintings. We created puzzles with Constable’s paintings and we played. We inspired from Constable’s paintings and we drew our pictures with clouds. We take photos from our city with clouds and we imagined what the clouds liked. We have observed how much a scientific discovery can affect the arts and how these two fields are connected. The oldest students investigate about the climate change and they interview from their grandparents. All the evidences are included in an ebook. They are investigate also the difference between climate and the weather and the climates zones and they present them in a genially. A big part of the project created during our online lessons cause of covid19.
Sentir
We focused on the changes of seasons, the changes of meteorological phenomena and climate change. We observed the clouds, their shapes, we learned three types of clouds but also the meteorological phenomena associated with these species. We experimented with creating clouds and rainbows. The older students we focused on the environmental problems of our city and the earth in general, identifying the signs of impending climate change and how it can be avoided. They interviewed their grandparents about the climatic conditions that prevailed a few decades ago. We paint how we imagine the Earth and we create a rainbow with colors in the lab.
Imaginar
We express our first ideas about climate and weather. We create clouds of words about climate and weather. We say our ideas what climate change is and how we can avoid it playing the following game which the oldest pupils created. We express the necessity of a clean environment and how we can protect the Earth from the climate change. We observe the meteorological phenomena, the clouds and the rainbows watching the following movie which was created from the youngest pupils with our teachers’ help. We meet Luke Howard the first scientist who named the spies of the clouds. We meet Constable the painter who loved the clouds and he drew clouds in all of his paintings. We inspired from him and we write poems and we drawn the seasons and the meteorological phenomena.
Criar
The integration in the project was done in the following didactic subjects:
1. Language: The children describe Constable’s' paintings, and express the emotions that are created from them. The children write short texts describing the paintings of Constable or write short poems expressing the emotions that are created from them. They send messages to the universe to avoid climate change. They write our ideas; if they are clouds…They observe Constable’s pictures and drew like Constable, describing what they drew.
2. Science: The children got to know what clouds and rain are and how they are created, the types of clouds and that each type of cloud is associated with a different meteorological phenomenon. They got to know the air layers and in which air layer the weather phenomena are created (troposphere).They do experiments, how we can create clouds and rainbows in the lab. We made diagrams with weather condition. The oldest pupils created a genial.ly presentation with the climate zones in Earth and the animals that live in there. They created an e book about climate change and they took interview.
3. Art: The children painted the types of clouds and made art crafts with them. They made paintings inspired by the paintings of Constable. They painted clouds and made with them mobile for their rooms. And in the end they created a construction with the air mattresses.
The children succeeded
a.to write their own stories, tales, poems and short texts
b. to learn how clouds are created
c. to know the types of clouds
d.to get to know the layers of air
e. to understand meteorological phenomena
f. to create crafts and paintings based on scientific data
g. to understand the connection between science and art