Grade 1 Inquiry Programme Planner: 30th November - 6th December Grade 1 Main theme . 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.
