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Fitzwilliam Museum Creativity Session - March 2021 - Coggle Diagram
Fitzwilliam Museum
Creativity Session - March 2021
Why take children to museums?
Encourage questions & Sustained Shared Thinking.
Awe & wonder.
New Experiences - Widening and raising expectation
Access to more resources.
Experiencing things first hand in a safe and stimulating environment.
Learning history.
Supporting Imagination.
See how other people live
Culture Capital
Story telling
Experience a new ambience.
Learn about the future.
Portrait Galleries
Painful realities
Selective History
Constructed reality
Lots of important people to learn about,
Lots of people missing.
Be mindful of the portraits used in a classroom, make them inclusive.
Not neutral - Chosen picture.
Present day and the future need to address the imbalance of the past.
How might museums support creativity?
Sensory Opportunities.
Full of inspiration.
Smells and sounds found in a museum.
Children can begin to imagine themselves in what they see.
Opportunity to see new textures and shading.
Its a relaxed environment to be in.
A place to explore colours and patterns.
Can find inspiration from other artisits.
It's a place where they can just 'have a go'.
A place to see new ways to create things.
There are no rights or wrongs in there ideas and what they create.
Using Paintings in teaching.
Extends Ideas.
Encourages sustained shared thinking.
Adds Story.
Enhances and furthers vocabulary.
Games
Say what you see.
Say what you hear.
Say how it makes you feel.
Say what you could smell there.
Challange
Challenge the children to create their own versions of painting and portraits.
What do they add?
What do they copy directly.
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Use the opportunities around you to inspire and enhance learning journeys!