Get active on climate change through… Art

Learning Objectives To understand how to use creative ways to engage people in an issue To use a given resource creatively using artistic skills To be able to organise an event and think about how to communicate a message through art

How can you use art to communicate a message…? Example – the Oxfam Artopia project People were asked to use shoe boxes to show a vision of what they wanted the future to be like… http://www.oxfam.org.uk/applications/blogs/pressoffice/2010/07/30/artopia-chris-is-inspired-by-climate-change-art/

See what they did!

Oxfam Artopia pictures and hyperlinks

Oxfam Artopia pictures and hyperlinks

NOW it’s your turn…!

YOU NEED: Pupil planning template 1 TASK 1 Design and decorate a plant pot for the plant you have grown with a message about the human impact of climate change YOU NEED: Pupil planning template 1

A) What you have learned about the human impact of climate change? You could discuss this in pairs, then share as a class

B) What are the KEY MESSAGES you need to share with others? Can you make lists in pairs?

You could work in a group to discuss and agree this C) How can you use the resources you have to show this message creatively! You could work in a group to discuss and agree this

Size and shape – how will your plant fit in? Think about… Images you use What you say Using colour Size and shape – how will your plant fit in? Be eye-catching The materials you use (e.g. could they be recycled?)

From wikicommons From wikicommons

TASK 2 Decide how to exhibit your artwork Where will you have it? How will you organise it? Who will you invite? Could you go outside the school…? YOU NEED: Pupil planning template 2 and taking action worksheet

TASK 3 When you have finished your plant pots and your event, you need to evaluate how well it went… What went well? What could you have improved? Did you communicate your message to others? YOU NEED: evaluation template