How Technology Affects the Environment
As technological art practices gain mainstream acceptance through the Internet and networked society, artists are questioning how our physical and digital lives interact. By exploring the issue of the environment, students will have an opportunity to see how even the smallest things can have a huge impact, both negative and positive. Using a form of virtual reality in a way that is familiar and entertaining for most students, they will explore the effects they have on the environment first-hand, and be able to network and share their findings with others, creating awareness to the environmental issues.
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The images and resources I'll use during class discussion
(Links to all are available in the lesson plans and on the resource page)
Minecraft Project
Students will be assigned a specified area in a server in the game. They will be replicating a work of art using one of the artists we have gone over or from the http://greenmuseum.org/archive_index.php website. They will be limited by the resources in their area.
Students will choose an artwork from one of the artists from the website, from the examples in class, or create their own original structure. They will be experimenting with the controls of the game. They will create a small sketch on a piece of grid paper showing the front, back, left, right, and top perspective of the work they have chosen to create.
Students will choose an artwork from one of the artists from the website, from the examples in class, or create their own original structure. They will be experimenting with the controls of the game. They will create a small sketch on a piece of grid paper showing the front, back, left, right, and top perspective of the work they have chosen to create.
Next, students will work in the Minecraft game to build their structure or structures. They will turn it into the teacher and may share with the class when it's completed.
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The Rubric
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