Inquiry Based Learning

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1945)
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Inquiry implies a "need or want to know" premise. Inquiry is not so much seeking the right answer -- because often there is none -- but rather seeking appropriate resolutions to questions and issues. Students become active seekers rather than passive absorbers.


Exploring the art element of texture...

How can I transform this paper? What can I do to give it texture? How many different kinds of textures can I create? How do I arrange my composition so that it pleases me as an artist?  How do the shadows play on my other pieces?

An old adage states:

Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand."

                                                                                                                                      Joe Exline


This Week in Art... from Gabriela Elizalde on Vimeo.

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The Arts and The Brain

"...there is no 'looking' without activation or creation; and there's no working with the hands without also directing the brain (Wilson, F.,1999).  Many areas of the brain and body are engaged to see and create art. In fact, the intricacies of creating a piece of visual art are mind-boggling, which leads us to the brain."

taken from Arts With The Brain In Mind by Eric Jensen 2001

Paper Sculptures