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FREDERICBACK.COM WEBSITE ADDS SIX NEW EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY KITS
Atelier Frédéric Back unveiled the four winners of the 1st annual Ghylaine Paquin-Back Contest designed to add new educational activity kits to the Caring Together website. These free kits are intended primarily for kids age 6 to 14 and their teachers, educators and parents.
In addition to the four winning activity kits in the 2008 Ghylaine Paquin-Back Contest and the three existing kits, two new Caring Together kits have recently been developed and added to the site, thus offering even more high-quality teaching tools thanks to Canadian Heritage and the generous support of the Desjardins Group.
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In honour of Ghylaine
Paquin-Back, a teacher and the patient
companion for 58 years of the “man who
drew”, the Atelier Frédéric Back is
inaugurating its second annual competition.
DOWNLOAD
THE
2010 CONTEST GUIDE
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Intended for elementary
schools in Quebec and Ontario, as a
complement to the educational outreach
of the school caisse program, the "
Desjardins
NaturLogic" Contest is designed
to make young people aware of the environmental
aspects of the various living systems
that protect the natural world.
The contest recognizes young people’s
efforts to protect and respect the natural
environment by putting cooperative values
into practice.
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Would you like to be informed of news, events and updated activity kits?
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| Using Frédéric Back’s images from the “Forests” thematic gallery in Museum section and from the film The Man Who Planted Trees, students will develop their skill at representing a landscape with trees. They will also gain an understanding of how trees help balance ecosystems and maintain the conditions needed for life to flourish. |
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| Based on the film ¿Illusion?, students will create an infomercial, a board game and a sculpture on the themes of the environment and consumerism. In doing this, they will also become aware of what actions they themselves can take. |
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| Based on the film The Mighty River, this activity kit helps students develop their plastic arts skills, while learning about our history and founding peoples. It also sensitizes them to the importance of rivers, in this case the St. Lawrence with its once vast resources and the changes it has undergone since the founding of the colony. The kit includes classroom and outdoor activities to help them discover the recreational activities of the Aboriginal people and early colonists. |
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| These workshops will help young people become aware of our urban natural heritage and the need to preserve nature. Based on the films The Man Who Planted Trees and The Mighty River, workshops in observational drawing, pastels, monotypes and engravings will help them realize that drawing is a way of understanding and recording what they see. They will also create a herbarium. |
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| The first activity, Exploring Sound, involves creating a soundtrack for the film with instruments made from recycled materials. The second activity, An Illusion Machine, addresses the issue of child labour through drama. The third activity looks at noise pollution and the environment in which we live and then invites students to express themselves on these subjects. |
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| This kit based on the film The Man Who Planted Trees encourages students to think about the importance of trees and asks them what makes the shepherd happy and about their own happiness. They will analyze the values of Elzéard Bouffier, the man who planted trees, and then think about their own values. They will look for examples of people around them and they will come up with a citizen action project to be conducted in their own environment. |
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| The activity kit develops five major activities designed to increase understanding of the value of things around us, and the sustainability concepts of recover, reuse and recycle. Participants use various art forms to communicate and reflect on concepts of family, tradition and the environment, leading to the mounting of an art exhibit. |
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| The activity kit offers six activities to help children and adults grasp the importance of each person's role and responsabilities in addressing issues of consumerism and waste. Participants create and present a stage show that explore themes of responsible consumption and the exploitation of nature's resources and beauty. |
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| The activity kit comprises eight activities designed to inform, sensitize and educate children and their caregivers about the concept of sustainable development. It awakens participants to the active role they can play, instills a sense of responsability and develops critical thinking skills. The activities draw on the visual arts and writing as means of expression and engagement. |
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