AVI20 - Take Me Outside!

Did you know that Canadian youth are spending in excess of 8 hours a day in front of screens!  I invite you to check out www.takemeoutside.ca.  It is a website that encourages students and educators of students to spend more time in Canada's beautiful outdoors.  In support of Take Me Outside...I wore my t-shirt today...

From the site:

The message on this shirt originated in a teacher's college class at Queen's University in the 2008 cohort. While out on a trip one day, the class ran into an elementary student and after a brief conversation, a teacher candidate responded to the student, saying"You should just ask your teacher to take you outside!"

So guess what we did today!  We went outside.  We gathered leaves to practice replicating three-dimensional forms in two-dimensions.  This is phase one of a three-phase project:  Summer/Autumn/Winter leaves.  It is a symbolic progression that appears in art and literature...a progression of time that is a metaphor for our lives.

Here are some examples from phase one!

For now, here is a real life extension of this project: The TMO challenge!!

http://www.takemeoutside.ca/challenge