Art Attack - Best out of Waste

🔰Name of the School: Delhi Public School Gwalior 

Name of the Activity: Best out of waste

Grade Level: Classes VI-VIII

Subject(s) :Co-Curricular Activity (CCA), Art and Craft, Science, Social science

Art(s) Integrated: Visual  art

Topic/Chapter: Art Attack 

Sub-Topic/Concept: Craft Magic, Bottle Art 🎭

Learning Outcomes: 

1.  To teach students the importance of conserving and preserving resources.
2.  To develop the ability to think and organise the thinking to create something useful.
3. To indulge the students in extracurricular activity with exclusive tool i.e. waste material to explore the environmental concepts. 
4.  Reduce the amount of waste on the earth.
5.  To increase economic security by tapping a domestic source of the material.
6.  To prevent pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials.

 Ideated by: CCA Incharges 

 Executed by: Students of Classes VI-VIII

 Description:  

 Creativity is making marvellous out of the discarded. 

Best out of waste simply means to make or to bring out something innovative and attractive things from the material we do not use anymore.

Talented DPsites too used their creativity and made beautiful, useful and attractive items from the discarded items. They presented the best example to show 3R's -Reuse, Reuse and Recycle by creating artwork on waste glass, plastic bottles and craftwork using paper strips, feathers, rings etc. Efforts of students were worth appreciable.

 Variations possible: Students can create planters, bird feeders, wall hangings, table decor, wall decor, cards and many more articles using waste generated at homes.

Virtual Tour of Rajasthan

 

School- GD Goenka Public School, Ghaziabad

Grade - I AND II

 Sub: Bodhisattva Club

 Topic: Virtual tour to Rajasthan. 

 Ideated by: Ms. Madhu Tyagi

 Executed by: Students of grades I and II

Description: Children of Bodhisattva club Grade I and II of GD Goenka Public School, Raj Nagar Extension Ghaziabad on 17 July 2021  participated in the making of treasure box activity and decorated it with mirrors, beads etc. They were also taken on the virtual tour to Rajasthan. 

 Learning Outcomes:

Encouraging active participation. 

Developing communication skills.

Developing listening skills. 

Developing Creativity. 

Developing general knowledge.

Insects (Bugs) - Visual Art

SCHOOL - Hansraj Model School Punjabi Bagh New Delhi

NAME OF THE ACTIVITY – MY FRIENDLY BUG

GRADE LEVEL - 4

SUBJECT - Science

ART INTEGRATION – Visual Art (Model Making)

CHAPTER: - INSECTS

SUB-TOPIC: - Physical Features of Insects

IDEATED AND EXECUTED BY: Mrs. Arti Goel, Mrs. Sheetal Arora

DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: - Insects are a unique group of animals due to their physical features. After learning about the basic structure of insect body, students created a FRIENDLY BUG using easily available materials keeping in mind the physical features of an insect.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: 

• Recognizing the various parts of the body in insects.

• Identifying the importance of specific position of different organs of the insect body in different parts.

• Examining the uniqueness of all insects as a family with similar physical features..

Types of Bridges - 3D Model

 

School:  Hansraj Model School, Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi 

Name of the activity: Bridge Making

Grade level: Class 4

Subject: Social Science

Arts integration: Visual Art (Model making)

Chapter: Bricks and Bridges

Sub-topic: Types of Bridges

Ideated and executed by: Aruna Malhotra & Sakshi Tripathi

Description of the activity: Create a model of bridge using waste material (straw, foil, ice-cream sticks, spoons etc)

Learning outcomes:

Understanding the importance of a bridge.

Identifying and Distinguishing between different types of bridges.

Relating the need of constructing specific type of bridge to a specific area.

Exploring Ramps and Forces - Visual Arts

School: Silverline Prestige School, Ghaziabad

Name of Activity: Exploring Ramps and Forces

Grade Level: VIII

Subject(s): Science

Art(s) Integrated: Visual Arts with Science

Topic/Chapter: Friction

Sub-Topic/Concept: Friction - An opposing force

Learning Outcome(s): The learner would be able to understand the concept of friction based on different types of ramp surfaces.

Ideated by: Ms. Deepika Sharma

Executed by: Nandini 

Description: The learner created ramps using rough surface cardboards and cello tapes demonstrating the different time taken while falling from different surfaces of varied friction level.

Life cycle of a butterfly

 

School: Silver Line Prestige School, Ghaziabad

Name of Activity:  Life cycle of a butterfly

Subject(s): Science

Arts Integrated: Visual Art

Class: 4

Description: Students were told to create an edible 3D model to show the life cycle of a butterfly. Children used lotus seeds (eggs), peas (caterpillar), coconut (Pupa), orange and chillies ( butterfly)  and other materials to create the life cycle.