Rationale
I just recently viewed a TED Talk 2 that originally was designed three years ago, but still is very poignant. It was of creativity expert, Sir Ken Robinson, discussing the current reformation of public education. In it he states that:
every country on earth is trying to figure out how do we educate our children so that they have a sense of cultural identity and so that we can pass on the cultural genes of our communities while being part of the process of globalization. 3
Which begs the question how do we create inquiring detectives in a world that is filled with so many distractors?
The answer: we place them in workable outdoor labs that are full of organized cultural exhibits and local natives. We give them the opportunity to use the world as their classroom. More specifically, we take something that is usually compartmentalized out of safety (into books, desks, classrooms, lockers) and expose them to the frontiers of glass, concrete, and earth.
This unit is specifically designed for a high school senior seminar class. It will be used as an introduction to discovery and self. Using different lab settings students will be taken out of the classroom to work on their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This unit is not the typical high school class setting in that it will be seminar driven and inquiry based. It will also allow students to discover and discuss their own cultural identity and create they can share with others.
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