PUBLIC
High school students who have chosen the optional learning of Visual and Audiovisual Arts. This activity has been the subject of an exhibition at the University of Granada, from 16 to 20 October 2018, within the activities related to the third training and learning mobility of the project

KEY COMPETENCES
 Communication in the mother tongue
 Learning to learn
 Social competences and citizenship
 Humanist culture and expression of sensitivity

OBJECTIVES
 To employ the direct contact with the garden plants to develop creativity, imagination and artistic expression
 To be interested in the visual qualities of plants : aspect of their branches, leaves, ribs, colours and matter. Collectively, produce a painted herbarium, a kind of artistic collection taking on meaning in the history of arts.
 To develop a cross-curricular approach to the plant garden involving mastering the language, arts and sciences.

GARDENS EXPLORED
The garden of IES Escultor Sanchez mesa de Otura (Granada)

MATERIALS
 Computer, tablet or camera
 Drawing notebook, watercolour paper
 Pencils of different types, watercolours

DEVELOPMENT
 Premise : to collect excerpts from literary and poetic texts, little stories around the garden and copy them down on a notebook
 To walk through the garden holding your notebook. Observe and take note of what you like seeing, enrich the notes with information and accounts about the plants observed
 To detailed observation of plants and flowers and annotation on the notebook
 The students choose the insects they want as models for their drawings and paintings
 To draw sketches in the sketchbook. Photographic report of the details
 In the classroom, to draw and to paint on watercolour paper employing different techniques
 To be aware how much scientific culture accounts for a personal enrichment, a relationship with the world through arts.

EVALUATION
It takes into account the ability to :
Communicate orally and in writing in the mother tongue - Correct use of the oral and written language
 Building up a personal notebook starting from the ’bestiary of insects’
 Expression of ideas, knowledges, opinions

Develop competences related to awareness and cultural expression
 Promotion of one’s personal enrichment and attitude to relate with the world around through the scientific and artistic culture
 Using artistic creation as a means of personal expression
 Practising visual arts – painting and drawing - to reproduce insects with regard to its aesthetic forms
 Being able to conform to a specific subject or a particular environment in order to develop one’s own creativity
 Using the results of close observations of the animal world as a vehicle for the artistic creativity

Learn how to learn. Learn how to realize an artistic project, set up its organization, its phases and self-evaluation

Develop social and civic competences. Learn how to get involved in the project taking responsibility of a part of it.

AUTHOR
 Maria del Carmen Casa Ubeda, Visual Artist. Teacher of Visual Arts and audiovisuals.
 IES Escultor Sanchez Mesa de Otura (Granada) educational centre connected with the pedagogical team of Granada coordinated by the Botanical Garden of the University of Granada, Spain

TRANSLATER
Mary Gino
Association Acquamarina, Trieste, Italie