Natural vs. Manmade Tour, Part Two
For the next stop of our tour, we imagined that we are archaeologists living in the year 4000. Our team just discovered this sculpture, and through close examination we have determined it was a machine that was used in the year 2017.
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| Voltri VI by David Smith |
With that in mind, students wrote a story about their discovery, considering the following:
- What type of
work did this machine do?
- Did it have
moving parts? Which parts? How did they move?
- How did the
machine operate – what did it use for fuel?
- Did someone manually operate
it? If so, who?
- Draw a picture
of the machine at work.
- Name the
machine.
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Then students shared their stories and drawings with a partner. Our archaeological findings included an ant transporter, a Bober-shplat (giant's roller skate), a chocolate cutter, a Farmolater (plow), a Chopper 4000 (for chopping lettuce in restaurants), and The Lane (for making lanes to plant seeds). One student was inspired to write a poem about the discovery:
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The artist who made this sculpture, David Smith, was invited to make one or two sculptures for a festival in Italy. Instead, he made 27! He used a
former steel factory in Italy for his studio. In the
factory, he found a cart for moving hot steel. He attached a
steel wedge to one end that props up the long handle of the cart. Then, he welded two large plates of steel
to the base.
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Students concluded this stop by drawing a small symbol for this sculpture where they felt it should be placed on their natural to manmade spectrum. They also added a word to their textwork, describing something that they saw, heard, thought, or felt at that moment.
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