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S.T.E.A.M. Design Challenge:
Non-Biodegradable Trash
INTRODUCTION
Explore how artists and nature recycle. Utilize design thinking and engineering skills to address the abundance of non-biodegradable waste in your home, school and community.
NATIONAL VISUAL ARTS
STANDARDS
blank paper ( for sketching ideas) pencils scissors glue masking tape and/or staplers assortment of recycled materials
Understand the many ways nature recycles and how that natural process has inspired artists, scientists and engineers throughout the ages (historical and cultural understanding). Observe designs, structure, form and function in folk art and in botany to make recycling connections between these two worlds (perceiving, analyzing and responding). Design and repurpose discarded non-biodegradable materials that don’t decompose into a useful object that can bring awareness to the problem of too much trash by creating a solution to address a human need (creating and performing).
OBJECTIVES
MATERIALS
NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE
STANDARDS (NGSS) LINKS:
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
- Jane Goodall
3 - 5 - ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. 3 - 5 - ETS1-3. Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved. 5 - ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
Aymar 2018. Photo Ccopacatty by Chloe (Aymara Accardi.), Community Through Making: From Peru to New Mexico ,
RESOURCES
Museum of International Folk Art - Creating in Plastic Land / Rivers of Plastic https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL- Dx1Qh-1temOpmoi1Ju1Mn8dhlLCtX_J
Defining the Problem: At your working table, describe in a sentence or two what your problem , need or want, is on the Design Challenge Worksheet. You may wish to collaborate with classmates. Develop a Solution: What type of trash would you use to solve this problem? What can you do with the plastic and how can you: reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose, or upcycle the plastic? Create a written design plan individually or with classmates. Have plan approved by Educator before proceeding. (Use the worksheet on page 4.) Prototype Design: Using discarded non-biodegradable plastic, wire, string, zip ties, or other plastic, students create a useful object or a gift for someone that addresses their identified problem and solution. Test Design: Make sure designed object works, or is holding together; consider aesthetics, how it will look. Revise: On-going revising and tweaking; make adjustments to design. Present: Students share their completed designed object with whole class or small group to create awareness of the possibilities of how to repurpose trash.
Create a written design plan individually or with classmates. Use only collected non-biodegradable plastics, discarded wire, string, zip ties, cloth, or other plastic, like food containers, to solve your home or classroom problem. Final product must be something you are proud of and will use, or gift to someone.
Limitations
Non-Biodegradable Trash Design Challenge
Procedure
Create a useful object or gift using discarded non-biodegradable materials. What is a problem in your classroom or at your home that you could creatively use trash to solve? You must use objects that would otherwise be thrown away.
Have students share their work, reflecting on how nature recycles and how folk artists from around the world are inspired to reduce, reuse, repurpose/upcycle human made materials to bring awareness to the problem of too much trash. They can discuss challenges and lessons learned while designing their non-biodegradable trash project. What additional designs could they create? What additional tools or materials would have been helpful to use in the process? Having had this experience, how would students approach this problem differently?
EVALUATION
Design Challenge – What Will We Do With All This Trash?
Storage Toys for home or the playground Comfortable cushion for a chair Backpacks Games to play with friends Art to make it more beautiful A cover to protect you from sun or rain Anything else you can imagine!
Trash Problem : We are throwing away too much trash. Human Problem : What is a problem in your classroom or at your home that you could creatively use trash to solve? You must use objects that would otherwise be thrown away.
Ideas to consider. I need __________
Define this problem in a sentence or two:
What type of trash would you use to solve this problem? What other materials would you need?
Use the space below to make a plan describing what materials you need and how you will build the solution using trash.
Community through Making: From Peru to New Mexico
During the spring and summer of 2018, the Museum of International Folk Art hosted three groups of artists and activists from Peru in conjunction with the exhibition Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru. During these 10 - day residencies, they worked with groups of local artists to explore how art shapes healthy and vibrant communities. Rivers of Plastic brings together sculptors Aymar Ccopacatty and Nora Naranjo Morse, who both see their home landscapes being transformed by plastic waste and use sculpture to open conversations about this intrusive and persistent material. About the Collaboration The collaboration paired sculptors Aymar Ccopacatty (Aymara) and Nora Naranjo Morse (Santa Clara Pueblo) with the theme Rivers of Plastic. Both artists utilize non-biodegradable trash with art traditions learned through their families; textiles for Ccopacatty and clay for Naranjo Morse. Both see their home landscapes being transformed by plastic waste and use sculpture to open conversations about this intrusive and persistent material. (^) Nora Naranjo Morse and Aymar Ccopacatty, 2018 Photographer: Chloe Accardi Rivers of Plastic: Trash Loom Santa Fe has banned plastic bags, but there is plenty of plastic still to be found. Aymar Ccopacatty created this loom and trash weaving with discarded materials collected around town. Wooden pallets form the heddles, which move on a pulley to lift half of the warp strings at a time. The warp strings are made of shrink-wrap that he collected from Albertson’s grocery store - this plastic was wrapped around one morning’s deliveries. The colorful weft is plastic decoration from 2018 ’s International Folk Art Market. You can also see clear produce bags, blue New York Times bags, and various packaging that came from the homes of museum staff and volunteers.
Aymar 2nd 2018 Ccopacatty Photographer:’s trash Chloe loom atAccardi MOIFA during the Arts Alive program, August
Creating in Plastic Land Artists and community working with plastic and discarded material, including material from the International Folk Art Market. Programs in conjunction with the 'Community Through Making: From Peru to New Mexico' exhibition. Creating in Plastic Land Program - Fall 2019. Collaboration with Kha'p'o Community School, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. Find the videos' link on page 6 to view students' work and learn more about the collaboration.
