PUBLIC
High school students who have chosen the optional learning of Visual and Audiovisual Arts.
The team of Granada has presented the activity on the occasion of the fourth peer-to-peer training mobility of the project taking place at the Botanical Garden of the University of Padua, Italy, from 14 to 18 May 2019.

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

OBJECTIVES
 To use the garden, the colours, the texture of the plants to enhance creativity, imagination and artistic expression
 To learn how to work in a team to realise an artistic project, outlining organization, steps and self-evaluation. - To learn how to be part of a project and assume responsibility for part of its realization
 To develop a cross-curricular learning of the garden involving mother tongue, arts and sciences

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

MATERIALS
 Computer, tablet or camera
 A collection of plants picked up in the garden and dried
 Various recycling materials recalling the colours and shapes of plants in autumn
 Scissors, glue, stapler

DEVELOPMENT
 To collect parts of plants picked up in the garden and then dried
 To walk around the garden observing and taking note of what you like to see
 To choose plants and flowers and observe them in detail. Taking pictures
 To collect materials suggesting the features of the garden in autumn (paper, fabric, cardboard..).
 To realize a composition with all the materials pasting or stapling them on a corrugated cardboard
 To be conscious of the impact the composition has within the school space

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
 produce a personal notebook of the garden / carnet du jardin
 express ideas, information, opinions

Develop competences addressed to awareness and cultural expression
 through art and culture, develop personal enrichment and the capacity to express one’s own relationship to nature
 use artistic creativity as a means of personal expression
 practise visual arts in a real context in an unusual way at school using recycling materials, an art largely employed by the visual artists of this and the past century
 be able to adjust to a specific subject or environment in order to develop one’s own creativity. Use an event, current positive or negative situations as means of personal expression.
 use accurate observations of the plant world as a vehicle towards the artistic creation.

Learn to learn
Learn how to realize an artistic project, outline its organization, phases, self-evaluation

Develop social and civic competences.
Learn how to work in team, get involved in a project, assume responsibility.

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