7: The Gifts of Nature
The source of my work is nature. I use it with respect and freedom. I use materials, ideas, movement and time to express a whole view of my art in the world. -Richard Long Nature is the main source of the materials that we use in our daily life. From trees that provide us with wood to plants that give us cotton for our clothes and food for our table -- nature is a gift that keeps on giving to help us survive and thrive. This week, we explored the bountiful gifts of nature through the materials that we use in our everyday life. We began our inquiry by putting on our scientist hats once again. Apart from wood, we learned new materials that we encounter on a daily basis: paper metal glass cloth plastic To explore and get to know these materials better, we used our five senses to come up with certain properties that we can use to describe or characterize the different things around us. These are the characteristics that we came up with: It was amazing to see how many words the childr