Systemic Sustainability: 1.1 Curriculum and Instruction
Green Focus in the Art Department
The Art Department’s commitment to Green School initiatives is evidenced in many practices:
- Outdoor learning is a regularly incorporated, including drawing still-lifes in the courtyards and studying shadow and light throughout the school grounds.
- Curriculum posted online, not distributed in paper form.
- All unwanted portfolios and sketchbooks are recycled at the end of the marking period/year.
- Weekly, in Digital Palette class, students view the Baltimore Sun’s photography contest, rather than purchasing and utilizing printed format.
Art Class Studies the Osprey
Keeping with our Green School culture, Art classes study our school mascot, the Osprey, and its habitat in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The students then made ceramic ospreys as part of a student showcase emphasizing our connection to the Bay.
2017: Our school mascot, the Osprey, imagined and brought to life by our student artists!
Students Make Up-cycled Works in Art Class
Art classes also incorporate the environmental credo of the “3 Rs”, making Re-use and Recycle in particular, as basic to art as color. Staff implore their students to bring in items from home that can be used as materials for art projects, as well as to facilitate and protect the creations. Below are some works of art made in the 2016-17 school year entirely of recycled materials:
Art classes also incorporate the environmental credo of the “3 Rs”, making Re-use and Recycle in particular, as basic to art as color. Staff implore their students to bring in items from home that can be used as materials for art projects, as well as to facilitate and protect the creations. Below are some works of art made in the 2016-17 school year entirely of recycled materials:
Eco-Friendly Storage
Teachers engage students and their families, to make use of recycled plastic, such as from dry cleaning, which might otherwise end up in a landfill. Here, you can see those donations used to store our clay for ceramics projects.
Teachers engage students and their families, to make use of recycled plastic, such as from dry cleaning, which might otherwise end up in a landfill. Here, you can see those donations used to store our clay for ceramics projects.
2016: our closet of art supplies relies on many forms of recycled plastic. Here, see our clay storage shelf.
