We began our morning with Droodles......what is a Droodle you ask?? 
Droodles are puzzles that resemble abstract drawings you have to give a sense. to.
Droodles don'tlook like anything but you have to guess what it is.....or could be. There isn't really a correct answer to a droodle. You have to use all the creative thinking skills to come up with as many ideas in the time allowed.
This is a classic droodle.......what could it be?????
Check out this site for more droodles.
http://www.blogger.com/www.droodles.com/
After our brains were warmed up, we got in to concept. We got in to 3 groups and spent a half hour at each activity.
Activity 1. Knotting. How does knotting, especially decorative knots, fit in to our concept of patterns?? We all decided that knotting can be a useful tool for survival. Knots also need to show strength. We also decided that there were also some knots that were purely for beauty...like friendship bracelet knotting, but even these needed to show strength and order.
We also had to use many Habits of Mind for this activity. Many of the knots were tricky and incredibly frustrating. One of the main Habits (besides persistance!) was using senses. We couldn't complete this activity by just looking at the instructions alone. We had to actually give it ago........some of us even talked our way through it.......
Here are some pictures of us giving it a go.
Knots we had a go at creating.......Chinese Knot, Masthead Knot Mat, Crown Sinnet, Turk's Head, Chain Sinnet, Monkey's Fist......
Activity 2. We used the questioning tool...Key Words to Unlock Big Ideas....to create a humungous list of questions about patterns!!!!!!!
Here are some of them;
Droodles don'tlook like anything but you have to guess what it is.....or could be. There isn't really a correct answer to a droodle. You have to use all the creative thinking skills to come up with as many ideas in the time allowed.
This is a classic droodle.......what could it be?????Check out this site for more droodles.
http://www.blogger.com/www.droodles.com/
After our brains were warmed up, we got in to concept. We got in to 3 groups and spent a half hour at each activity.
Activity 1. Knotting. How does knotting, especially decorative knots, fit in to our concept of patterns?? We all decided that knotting can be a useful tool for survival. Knots also need to show strength. We also decided that there were also some knots that were purely for beauty...like friendship bracelet knotting, but even these needed to show strength and order.
We also had to use many Habits of Mind for this activity. Many of the knots were tricky and incredibly frustrating. One of the main Habits (besides persistance!) was using senses. We couldn't complete this activity by just looking at the instructions alone. We had to actually give it ago........some of us even talked our way through it.......
Here are some pictures of us giving it a go.
Knots we had a go at creating.......Chinese Knot, Masthead Knot Mat, Crown Sinnet, Turk's Head, Chain Sinnet, Monkey's Fist......
Activity 2. We used the questioning tool...Key Words to Unlock Big Ideas....to create a humungous list of questions about patterns!!!!!!!
Here are some of them;
- What could the consequences be when patterns are removed?
- What value do patterns have on space?
- How do patterns adapt to their surroundings?
- Why is there a structure to patterns?
- What is the reason for patterns?
- In what ways do patterns make life easier?
- Can you find patterns in everything?
- What roles do patterns have in modern economics?
- What impact would it make if a brick wall didn't maintain strength and order?
- Why is there a structure to patterns?
- What roles do patterns play in our lives?
- What functions do patterns have on everyday life?
- What causes the tide to come in and out?
- What if changes occured in to the mathmatical system?
- Are there people who study patterns?
- What influence do patterns have over our lives?
- What are the characteristics of a pattern?
- What are the differences between parrterns for beauty and patterns for survival?
- What value do patterns have to us?
- What systems can benefit from patterns?
Activity 3 Own choice...we have so many unfinished pieces of work to do....this time was used to work on them.
TALENT
Yeah!! ALICE was up and running today! Thanks Matthew! We could finally get in to our animations now that the picture galley is available. The ICT group completed the final tutorial before exploring the functions the programme has to offer and practising their coding. It wasn't long before the group discovered you could use Alice to create games........
The writers group are well on their way to creating some wonderful poetry. This group are composing; ballades, odes, tongue twisters and shape poems.
The mathematicians continued with their polyhedra. Billy made slides, while Georgia and Hannah had a go at creating some rather fiddley 3D shapes
The answer to the droodle is....A man wearing a bow tie entered a crowded elevator and the doors closed on his tie.
I am not sure why I wasn't able to post pictures after the first 3....will work on it today and hopefully get them up asap.
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