Erasmus+ arteducation.eu Time Upper Secondary ES Raquel Basante and Pere Lopez

1. TIME
Lesson 1. The arrow of time
Institution: Institut Pompeu Fabra. Martorell
Grade: the 4th (15 years old students)
Teachers: Raquel Basante, maths teacher, and Pere López Tolosana,
educational psychologist
Theme: Art and education
Crosscurricular activity involving communication in English, maths, physics,
poetry and ITC
Competences:
– Understanding the concept of entropy
– Analysing human and computer productions about time, with and without ITC.
– Composing poems about time
Educational resources:
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MOTIVATION
Have you heard about entropy? Have you ever thought about how time cannot
going backwards? Have you ever written a poem?We show several videos
made by our students where you can see some entropic processes.
……………………… Moreover, we show them some examples about how art
has dealt with time: films like “Back to the future”, paintings like “The
persistence of memory” by Salvador Dalí…
ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE
We explain to the students the how the entropi processes work, and ask them
for some examples oaboutit. Our students show and analyse some poems
where time is a central issue. We show how they can analyse and produce
some poems with and without ICT.
PRACTICE
– Students practice with the programs
– Students look for examples of poems
PRODUCTION
– Students must write a four-line poem each one
– Teachers help students make their compositions
– Students read the poems aloud.
– The students who want, give us thier poems and we upload them to the site of
the project.