Grade 1
Inquiry Programme
Planner: 30th November - 6th December
Grade 1
Main theme
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An exploration of our orientation in
place and time; of our personal
histories and geographies; homes
and journeys; the discoveries,
explorations and migrations of
humankind; the relationships
between and the
interconnectedness of individuals
and civilizations, from local and
global perspectives
Main idea
Technological advances have
impacted civilizations over time.
1st area of inquiry
What is technology?
Development of significant
civilizations over time
How technology impacts civilizations
over time
2nd area of inquiry
3rd area of inquiry
Lesson 1: Third area of inquiry
Lesson will begin by showing you provocation pictures. You will be
asked the following questions.
What is art? Why did civilizations use art? Why do all civilizations
have an aspect of arts? What is painting? Have paintings stayed the
same over time? How do you think they have changed with time?
You will watch a video about how people used to paint in caves. During
the video you will be asked to compare the painting techniques used
today as compared to the time shown in the video. How did the
caveman make paints? What material do you think they used? Did they
have manufactured paints in tubes/jars like we do today? Did they have
a paper or canvas to make a painting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCkYZG0qQAo
You will then watch another video showing how video animation is
done, and they will talk about the difference between traditional art
and digital art for a complete understanding of how the painting
techniques have changed the way we look at art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52yfXEbwwuc
Traditional art is works created by traditional means. Paper and pencil,
color pencils, watercolor, etc - things you can feel, things that have
texture. While digital art is created through digital means - a software,
a tablet, and a computer. They’re both art, just created differently.
A discussion will take place on how the painting techniques have
evolved and impacted us with time due to advancement of technology.
Since the beginning of humankind, people have been struggling to
capture what they see and share it with others. They’ve been using
whatever they have available at the time—first mud, then colourful
clay, charred wood, sharp animal bones, then special pigments mixed
with water or oil. They’ve been drawing with pencils and inks on paper,
painting with paints on canvas, sculpting in clay, wood, bone, and
stone. The material world offers a lot of possibilities for the creative
mind of a human!
But today we have something amazing and new, a kind of a new
world—the digital world. Computers, be it classic PCs , smartphones, or
tablets use their screens to show us something unreal. We “touch” the
icons, we “open” the folders, but what we see, no matter how unreal, is
really seen. And to be seen is all that art really needs.
Activity
You will make your own digital painting to experience the difference
from painting in the traditional way. You will use
https://jspaint.app/#local:8800736daaba8
Teacher’s resource
https://www.sketchbook.com/blog/digital-drawing-different-traditiona
l-art/
Lesson 2: films
The lesson will begin by asking you if people only told stories through
books or verbally, or if there is another way of passing on a story.
This will lead to connecting to the idea of theatre and plays.
You will understand how early civilizations like the Greeks first started
to use plays to tell a story.
Over time this became more complicated as they added costumes, and
proper stages etc.
When technology advanced people began making films.
I will show students a flip book animation. You will be asked what they
think is the difference between an image and a video.
Students will also be asked how the image is moving when the book
pages are flipped at a fast speed.
The recording of moving visual images is called a video.
You will then watch a video about the history of movies and who
invented the visual of moving objects that we now call a video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrJPICybdj8
You will then watch a Silent movie and will be asked to compare how it
is different from the movies we watch today. Why was it called the
silent movie? Why is it black and white? How is it different from the
movie Superman 2018?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETfMyvdp_cs
We will record the ideas on http://linoit.com/home.
Lesson 3: Travel
Lesson will begin by sharing a slideshow with you all. This is for a better
understanding of the evolution of transportation.
https://www.slideshare.net/zahidemran/history-of-transport
ation
You will asked the following questions: How has transportation advanced with time? How has the
change in transportation influenced civilizations? What is
Globalization? How has transportation helped us become a
global world?
You will understand how the advancement in transportation
technology has impacted our lives over time, making it easier
and quicker for us to travel long distances in a short period of
time.
You will then watch a video about the future of transportation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26gQ4QjZ8fY
Video will be paused in between and a link to the line of inquiry
would be made. You will be asked to compare the future of
transportation to the transportation methods in the past. This
will help them understand how civilizations have been
impacted by technology over time and in future as well.
You will be asked to predict how these new forms of transport
may change the way that we live.
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