Danielle Schleese
Grade 8 Lesson Plan
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Lesson Goals
To inspire students to engage collectively within aesthetic and making practices therefore contemplating how fashion interrelates the way we live on this planet.Lesson Skills
Lesson Prep-work
Step 1
Begin the lesson at the first shoe:
Adidas x Alexander Taylor x Parley for the Oceans, 2015. Collection of the BSM
Step 2
- How many shoes do or will you own? (consider through different stages of life)
- How many people do you think there are in the world that wear shoes?
- Where do you think all of their shoes end up?
- What happens to the materials of shoes once they're no longer being used?
Step 3
"Thread created out of discarded gill nets reclaimed from the ocean.
The collaboration grew out of a desire to bring awareness to the problem of ocean plastics. Given only six days to create the prototype sneaker, designer Alexander Taylor faced a number of challenges, but with the help of an international team, it was completed in time to be presented at the United Nations in 2015, where Adidas declared its commitment to removing virgin plastics from all production." Copyright The Bata Shoe Museum
Additional information:
The upper shoe is made impressively and entirely from plastic collected in the coastal areas of the Maldives, and illegal deep-sea gill nets retrieved off the coast of West Africa. Not only do the trainers look good, but their fashionable wave design proves to be an intuitive visual for the cause, serving as an illustration as to what is possible with the power of collaboration. The unusual green colour came directly from the pure gill-net content, which certainly helped create an iconic product. Copyright Designcurial.com
Group Discussion Question:
Step 4
Head to the second shoe of the tour:
"As a result of climate change, toxic algae blooms have affected water systems worldwide. Innovators are experimenting with ways to use this protein-rich material to create pliable and biodegradable foam to replace the petroleum-based ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) widely used in the footwear industry. The futuristic Yeezy Foam RNNR, designed by sneaker industry legend Steven Smith, is an example of footwear made using algae-based foam." Copyright The Bata Shoe Museum
Group Activity: Affinity Mapping
Give students the question “Instead of neutralizing plastic what are some other ways we can reduce plastic altogether such as this shoe has with toxic algae?” (which is a result of pollution and runoff).
In 5-10 minutes, have students generate responses by writing ideas on post-it notes (one idea per note) and placing them in no particular arrangement on a wall, whiteboard, or chart paper.
Once lots of ideas have been generated, have students begin grouping them into similar categories, then label the categories and discuss why the ideas fit within them, how the categories relate to one another, and so on.
Step 5
Final Object / subject of the tour: Sustainability
Individual Activity
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Class Takeaway
Sustainability Action Steps
Hi Danielle, great work I can see this as a post-visit activity in how you're encouraging students to really reflect on what they're learning. I particularly like the idea of having students trace their foot and thinking about their carbon footprint is so good. I also like how you included a glossary of terms in simple definitions, this would be a great asset especially to ESL Learners.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! I appreciate your feedback and provided an additional exercise for students to come up with replacing their own shoes anatomy with sustainable material alternatives (provided with a list of options to choose from) as a takeaway for the teacher which Lauchlin has. Thank you for all of your contributions for this class this was a great assignment to explore.
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