Discipline-based learning-Learning through drama Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles

We began this class by looking at the text ‘Luke’s Way of Looking’ by Wheatley and Ottley. The story looked at a boy who saw things differently, he painted things that the other boys didn’t and knew that he was different, his teacher would not accept his style of painting and told him to draw the apple that was in front of him, but Luke saw more than what the other children saw, he saw wonderful things and explored another world of art that none of the others could so he drew a blue apple intead of a red one, we stopped reading the book to do some short improvisational scenes. We then got into groups and thought about the behind the scenes of what could have happened, like the principle having a chat to Luke, the teacher in the staff room talking to another teacher, the teacher and the principle. We then read the rest of the book where Luke draws another picture that is not right and his teacher gets so angry that he gets his paint brushes and breaks them all. Luke is confused and he wonders into the town where he comes across a museum of art and sees all of the paintings that are just like his. He gets inspired and then returns to the school to paint a picture so amazing that his teacher has nothing to say.

Looking into my Multiple Intelligence’s test i knew that i would be more of a right brain person. I am very creative and am a kinesthetic learner. We then looked at teaching science and environmental studies and looked at getting solid to plasma, we started by looking at the way a water object would move through the space and and did this until we started to turn to a solid object until we froze. We then had to create 3 different scenes. One of and ice block in a freezer, one of an ice block on a window sill and the third one in a frying pan! It was a very different way of looking at it.

We then looked at endangered species, doing still frames in groups representing an animal that had become endangered. This then led to other group work and talk about all the options that we had in order to incorporate science into drama. Drama can be used in any subject area and it lets students create and imagine and learn about certain topics in a fun way.