Art and Ecosystems
The way I could incorporate a work of art in my science class room is by having kids discuss the painting or even have them draw their own work. I really liked Maratha Odum and her paintings. I loved how she captured such a beautiful scenery of nature and how peaceful her paintings were. While admiring them, I thought of a great idea of how to incorporate many of her paintings in my classroom. I thought that I could have the students do a "gallery walk" with several of her paintings (ones I have posted below) and then students could describe the different ecosystems that are in each of the paintings and some characteristics of each one. I would then have student create their own paintings/drawings of one of the ecosystems that are represented in the paintings. I think this would be a great activity because it allows kids to look at another example of ecosystems other than just in a textbook. This also allows students the chance to see another way of how science plays such a ...