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Introduction to teachingThings Talk offers teaching materials developed specifically for children between the ages of 10 and 12. The material takes as it’s starting point the idea that one can get children and young people to relate to and discuss complex issues like climate and environment by means of a creative, artistic process.
The artistic part of the project has a starting point in the Danish artist, Henry Heerup’s work with rubbish and recycling. He collected discarded objects on his way and by creating new works out of them, he thought that he gave the things new life and a new function. He called these sculptures junk sculptures.
In the teaching material this is used as the main inspiration, because the children have to find waste from their neighbourhoods and use it to produce artworks. This establishes a concrete relationship with the things and a way of talking about the past, present and future of the items. What are they made out of? What have they been used for? What will happen to them?
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The creative work of creating a junk sculpture provides the students with an opportunity to get curious and go on an adventure in different subject and thematic direction and by doing so, obtain new knowledge and cognition.
This could be, for example:
- Knowledge of the production of things
- Knowledge of the world
- Knowledge of democracy
- Knowledge of energy and energy consumption
- Knowledge of environment, climate and climate changes
- Knowledge of aesthetics, creativity and art
See the junk sculptures made by children in other countriesThe project is also about experiencing and sharing those experiences, dreams and thoughts with others.
This is why we have created an opportunity for all classes, who complete the project, to share photos and thoughts with children in other parts of the world. All, who choose to share their project with others, will be visible on the Things Talk world map.
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