Art & Design Thinking Camp
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Week 1 - Art and the Environment
June 24 to June 28
Instructor: Michele Guieu


The region we live in, The San Francisco Bay Area, is beautiful and fragile and needs our attention and care. Discover the importance of water and the consequences of human activity on our watershed and on the ocean. From individual work to a group installation, campers make art and design projects, exploring mini-landscaping, basic circuitry and soldering, and graphic design.
 
 
Monday (June 24)
9:00am           Intros
9:30am           Ice Breaker activity: Make a mini mobile from trash collected around the San Francisco Bay.
                             Campers will think about the San Francisco Bay and the important role each of us need to play to protect it. 
10:15am                   BREAK
10:30am         What is Design Thinking?  Maker Journals - Human activity can affect the water cycle.
                             Why is the water cycle so important for the balance of ecosystems?
                          ~  Campers will build a terrarium with small house plants, soil, charcoal and gravel.
                             They will decorate it with personal elements like rocks or pieces of wood, creating a mini landscape.
                           ~ Campers will create a desertscape using plants that require minimal water
                           ~ Campers will create clay creature to inhabit their terrarium or desertscape.
12:00pm                   LUNCH  
12:45pm         Review weekly projects
1:00pm           TINKER TIME: 
                           Cranky Contraptions
                            A fun way to make simple mechanisms and motion.
                            Campers explore up and down motion making contraptions from plastic trash collected around the Bay
                              to make a statement about plastic pollution.
2:30pm           Daily Camper Assessment

2:45pm           Clean Up
3:00pm           Camper Pick Up
                         Photos

Tuesday (June 25 )
9:00am           Warm Up Activity: Light Up Cards
                             Introduction to paper circuitry and Chibitronics
                              Make a light Up card with paper cuts and LEDs
9:30am          
10:15am                   BREAK
10:30am         Activity: Light Up Jellyfish
                         
Campers will make a Jellyfish that lights up with recycled plastic bottles (circuitry with copper tape + LED)​
                               
11:30am         Continue Paper Circuitry projects
Activity/Lesson: Continue Symbols about Water
12:00pm                   LUNCH  
12:45pm         Continue morning activity:
                            Discussion about the symbols: Review, feedback.
1:00pm           TINKER TIME         
2:30pm           Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm           Clean Up
3:00pm           Camper Pick Up
                         Photos
 
Wednesday (June 26 )
9:00am           Warm Up Activity: Nature Prints
                           Make compositions with photographic paper using plants from the garden
9:30am           Activity/Lesson: Data Mapping
                           Using a map as a base, campers visualize how to express information about the area on the map with LEDs.
                           Campers use 
Makecode Chibitronics code blocks and a chibichip to program the LEDs on the map,
                            which will light up in a specific sequence.  
 
10:15am                   BREAK
10:30am         Activity/Lesson: Continue Data Mapping activity
12:00pm                   LUNCH
12:45pm         Continue morning activity:
                             
Discussion about Data Mapping, the Chibichip, and feedback.
1:00pm           TINKER TIME         
2:30pm           Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm           Clean Up
3:00pm           Camper Pick Up
                          Photos


 
Thursday (June 27 )
9:00am           Warm Up Activity:
9:30am           Activity/Lesson:
10:15am                   BREAK
10:30am         Activity/Lesson: Endangered Species: Ocean Shadow Box (circuitry - soldering) 
                             Campers will learn about the impact of human activities on marine species and the major threats
                                marine species are facing such as: over-fishing/unsustainable fishing, inadequate protection
                                (not enough sanctuaries), tourism and development, ship strikes, oil and gas pollution,
                                consequences of aquaculture (pollution), and climate change (change in ocean temperatures).
                             Campers will learn how to draw a recognizable shape to create a silhouette. 
                             Campers will also explore simple circuitry by constructing a simple circuit, with LED, battery, conductive tape,
                                 and a switch system within the shadow box.
12:00pm                   LUNCH  
12:45pm         Continue morning activity: Discussion about the boxes and the Light Up Jellyfish
1:00pm           TINKER TIME         
2:30pm           Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm           Clean Up
3:00pm           Camper Pick Up
                           Photos

 

Friday (June 28)
9:00am           Warm Up Activity: Mini Plankton Soup with Bio Ink from The Tech Museum.
                               Plankton are like ‘the canary in the coal mine of climate change’.
                               By monitoring them, scientists learn about the ocean’s health.
                               What if bio inks could be part of the solution,
​                                    by being a great alternative to harsh chemicals needed to make art supplies?
                              Campers will create their own petri dish art using stamps of microscopic ocean life and
                                   bio ink - a natural bio-pigment produced by living bacteria.
9:30am           Activity/Lesson: Make Plankton with Cardboard
                             Campers will create elements for a collective mural representing an ensemble of enlarged plankton organisms. 
                                  ~ Why is plankton so important?
                                  ~ Why should we care about plankton?
                                  ~ Why should we take the time to create a mural that is a tribute to plankton?
10:15am                   BREAK
10:30am         Activity/Lesson: Continue Plankton activity
12:00pm                   LUNCH  
12:45pm         Complete weekly projects
1:00pm           TINKER TIME – ONLY if projects are complete 
2:30pm           Daily Camper Assessment
                        Weekly Camper Survey
2:45pm           Clean Up and Prep for Showcase
3:30pm           Student Showcase
4:30pm           Camper Pick Up
                           Photos


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