I am planning a Sustainability & Recycling Student Service Learning unit called Mini Golf Madness! "Course of Causes" My art students will explore how artists can make public art utilizing recycling to contribute to a sustainable community. They will create an 18 hole mini golf course with the public sculptures (out of recycled materials) being the obstacles on the course. The course will be displayed in the school gym and open in the Spring to students, their family, friends and community members to play! Each hole will have a themed cause to raise awareness or money for of the students’ choosing. Along side each hole will be an illustrated explanation of the process (language arts) Calculation of angle, slope, and trajectory to determine Par (math) and of course, the benefits of recycling (science.) Project includes Indiana Art Standards (8.12.3, 8.9.2, 8.13.2) Language Arts / literacy (6-8.RT.4) Math (8.3.5, 8.3.6, 8.4.1, 8.4.2) & Science (8.2.7). Putters will be borrowed from a local mini golf course which will promote school and community relations. I also plan to write an article about this cross curricular activity & submit it to several educational publications.
Garbage golf sustainability and recycling tag unit
1. Global Sustainability Unit
Z510: Arts for Exceptional Children: Gifted
Indiana University
Bloomington
Summer 2011
Dr. Enid Zimmerman
Melissa Rhinehart
2. Purpose:
To explore sustainability and recycling
To explore how artists can make public art
utilizing recycling to contribute to a sustainable
community
3. Look at the following 5 slides of pictures & videos…
*write your observations on post-it notes
4. Reference Map – 2008/9 Commercial Hazardous Waste Landfills
*write your observations on post-it notes
5. Look at the following pictures…
*write your observations on post-it notes
7. Global
Planet 100: The Pacific Trash Vortex Explained (2:42)
▪ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc6LvdsyJ4U
USA
Landfill video field trip (6:57)
▪ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA608GJ-EzM&feature=related
USA
Landfill Video (4min)
▪ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ1HmzsLwqc
Local
Clark & Floyd County, Indiana Landfill (1:03)
▪ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_zhUV2ZHqM
*write your observations on post-it notes
8. Now group your post it notes into categories
on the board.
What themes did you come up with?
What could the problem be?
9. Landfills affect life
Recycling is change
Objects can be manipulated and repurposed
Sustainability is endurance
Substainable Communities grow and change
10. Comprehension:
• Describe the conditions and surroundings of a landfill based on the pictures / videos
• Discuss the problems with landfills
•Explain how landfills affect life
•Interpret the color coded map of the US hazardous waste landfills
• Predict what our world will be like in 100 years without recycling
•Restate the meaning of sustainability
•Translate the meaning of the picture of the garbage inside the footprint
•Compare the pros and cons of recycling
11. How can materials be transformed into other
objects to help solve real life problems?
▪ (ex. BP Oil Spill)
How can drawings be used in this process?
-(Ex. Mechanical drawing / industrial designers/ CAD
designers)
12.
What is the problem?
Sustainability
How can artistically gifted students impact
global sustainability?
Indiana State Standard:
[] Standard 12 - Students understand how art experiences affect daily life and identify opportunities for involvement in the arts.
[ART.7.12.3 & 8.12.3] Identify ways one can become actively involved in supporting the arts in the community.
[1-7] The arts are connected to other areas of life.
13. Landfills
Improper Not enough Lack of lack of Lack of
disposal of recycling consumption pollution sustainable Funding for
objects reduction & reuse materials recycling
Lack of Environmental
Lack of
concern / Air / water Health effects economy government
education
opportunity contaminates
14. Application:
Make a graphic organizer or chart to
brainstorm possible ways to help solve
or alleviate the global landfill problem.
15. Education
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Political
campaign change
Landfills
Sustainable Recycled Art Fair /
Art Project Event
Adopt a highway / waterway Composting
16. Analysis:
Sort brainstorming categories into chart for
solution finding
Assign each idea points based on questions
Tally the points for each idea to see which idea is
the best to pursue
17. Will it take a Will it involve Will it have a Can the event TALLY
long time to many lasting be repeated
complete? people? impact? in the future?
1.
Political
1 5 5 1 12
Change
2.
Education
3 4 3 5 15
3. Recycled /
Sustainable 5 5 4 5 19
Art event
4.
Adopt a
1 5 5 1 12
Highway
18. Researching
Solutions
Internet search
Recycled / Sustainable Art event Adopt a Highway Political Change
Can be used to educate public
about Sustainability
No -due to dangerous
No - due to time constraints
conditions, legalities
of school year & bureaucracy
& age restrictions
Local Businesses /
Fieldtrips Professionals Parent Resources
Community
Talks / workshops
Send letters home Contact local business
with visiting
Louisville, KY to parents for parent Owners to
Professional
Volunteers and donations Assess their level of sustainable
Sculptors and Public Artists
practices & interest for
involvement in our event
To see public art
19. What is something fun to do in the community?
Basketball, Skate park, Hayswood
park, Paintball, Movies, Arcade, Golf Shores Fun Center –
minigolf, riding bikes, swimming, shopping
What is something that people of all ages can
do, indoors, incase of rain?
Basketball, Paintball, Movies, Arcade, Golf Shores Fun Center –mini
golf, swimming (YMCA), shopping
What activities can we do in our gymnasium?
Basketball, Movies, indoor mini-golf
What activities could incorporate large scale art work, public
works and sculptures?
Mini golf
20.
21. Books
Recycling
Sustainability
Paper mache sculptures
Internet search, YouTube videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnHt5gpKK6o (junkyard golf)
http://ultimatepapermache.com/paper-mache-clay/comment-page-7 (recipe, process
and video)
http://wn.com/Make_a_Paper_Mache_Mirror__Acrylic_Painting_Project__Art_and_Cra
ft (Paper mache mirrormaking video)
Fieldtrip to local mini golf course
Golf Shores Fun Center; Corydon, IN
▪ http://golfshoresfuncenter.com/
Consult Professionals
Talks with professional artists / industrial artists / engineers
22.
23.
24. View Public and Community Art
Louisville, KY
25. •Look at 3-D Public Art road paintings
(slide shows in upcoming slides)
to inspire perspective painting for floor
surfaces such as the mini golf floor
28. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnHt5gpKK6o
Description:
Junkyard Golf is a community-building event encouraging teamwork,
learning and creativity. Participants build a miniature golf course using a
collection of recycled materials and found objects, then play the course. This
session was facilitated in Indianapolis, IN.
Note:
This is just an exploratory activity. Students final mini golf courses *will NOT*
look like this. They will be highly refined integrating fine art techniques.
29. Brainstorm a theme
Holes can have individual themes and be unified
under the umbrella of mini golf and / or recycling /
sustainability
OR
Students can decide to have a common theme for
the entire course
30. Example Theme…
All-weather miniature golf in Madison
An indoor course at Vitense salutes the city
True to the course's
name, each hole pays
tribute in some way to a
beloved local site or event.
Although the third hole is
named for Oscar Mayer, it
features not the mammoth
facility on Mayer Avenue
but rather a colossal hot
dog -- with mustard, natch --
that doubles as a slippery
slide for the kiddies..
31. Games
Cartoons Sports
Famous
Fashion
Artists
Themes
Icons of Cityscapes
your (Urban
Community planning)
Animals /
Music
aquatic life
Carnival
32. How will your design layout work?
What will your obstacles be?
Where / how will they be placed?
What recyclable materials can you use to create the obstacles?
How many paths will there be through, around, under or over the
obstacles?
How will your obstacles effect par?
33. Moving
parts
Creative problem solving &
engineering
34. Students exploring movable parts can
reference Alexander Calder for his public art /
sculptural mobiles…
35. Limited as of
this time to
size of school
gym
Need to
measure
usable space
in order to a
lot students a
size “cap” on
their creation
36. Synthesis:
• Plan layout of mini golf boards (determining size and space
requirements / restrictions)
•Design your mini golf platform integrating math, art & language arts
description of the process & recycled materials used for an educational
display.
•Plan advertising strategies for the mini golf event
• Create an agenda demonstrating how all of the activities, events and Tee
times will be integrated at the mini golf event
• Design informational literature (brochure / newspaper) and / or presentation
(PowerPoint / Movie Maker, etc…) to educate parents, patrons & participants
about how this event helps impact local & global sustainability
37. Create a scale drawing of
your themed mini golf hole
38. Particle board, tape &
phone book paper for
Papier-mâché will be
provided, everything else
will be built out of student
collected recyclables
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39.
40.
41.
42. [] Standard 13 - Students identify and make
connections between knowledge and skill in art and
all other subject areas such as humanities, sciences,
and technology.
[K-HS] Compares and integrates ideas,
activities and studies across disciplines.
[ART.7.13.2] Create an integrated product or
performance and analyze how integration of disciplines
enhances knowledge.
43. [] Standard 12 - Students understand how art experiences
affect daily life and identify opportunities for involvement
in the arts.
[ART.7.12.3] Identify ways one can become actively
involved in supporting the arts in the community.
[1-7] The arts are connected to other areas of life.
44. [] Standard 9 - Students develop and apply skills using a
variety of two dimensional and three dimensional
media, tools, and processes to create works that
communicate personal meaning.
[ART.8.9.2] Demonstrate appropriate use of different
media, techniques, and processes to communicate themes
and ideas in their work.
[7-8] Demonstrates sculpture techniques.
[7-8] Demonstrates painting techniques.
[7-8] Demonstrates printmaking techniques.
45. Math-
Scale drawing / proportions
Probability for calculating par
Geometry: slope, angle, trajectory
Science-
sustainability, recycling, environment
Language Arts-
Write a project process explanation for public display
next to mini golf hole
46. Public Display
18 Hole Garbage Golf Course will be
presented to Parents, Community and
Classmates to interact, play & explore
process & educate about recycling /
sustainability
47. Public Display
Also…Articles about the process and event
will be written and submitted to local
newspapers, School Arts and Arts &Activities
Magazines.
48. Evaluation:
Formative
Observation of student progress
Student Interview Questions
Summative
Rubric
Critique the final product