Teaching our students about culture and identity through the arts is important and something we are striving to improve this year. It builds respect and appreciation for diversity—an essential part of living in our place and something we want to really celebrate.
We have launched our new inquiry and we are currently in the tuning in phase. This is the phase where we want to excite, inspire and spark curiosity. When we sit down to plan we brainstorm all of the possibilities. We are never locked into 'a plan' because it evolves with students interests, passions and learning needs. They often drive our inquiry with teacher guidance of course.
Here are some of the potential experiences we might be having throughout our Inquiry cycle.
We are explorers of our world. This term we are ‘Anthropologists’ we will be studying identity and culture specifically through the arts.
We kicked the term off with an exciting hook in experience where we studied different items across some of our class cultures. We explored patterns, colours, signs and symbols thinking carefully about why they are included in particular artefacts. We looked at the materials used to make different artefacts. We had some rich discussion about how and why resources are used in particular parts of the world.
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