- Learn about and engage in a critical discussion of the photography of Chris Jordan and Sze Tsung Leong especially as related to issues of the environment, consumerism and the power of visual images.
- Think deeply about how habits related to human consumption and disposal of trash are affecting the natural landscape.
- Create a mixed-media, found-object, landscape using products of consumer waste.
7.V.1 Use the language of visual arts to communicate effectively.
7.V.2 Apply creative and critical thinking skills to artistic expression.
7.V.3 Create art using a variety of tools, media, and processes, safely and appropriately.
7.C.X.1 Understand the global, historical, societal and cultural contexts of the visual arts.
7.C.X.2 Understand the interdisciplinary connections and life applications of the visual arts.
7.CX.2.1 Select skills and information from other disciplines to solve artistic problems.
7.CR.1 Use critical analysis to generate responses to a variety of prompts.
7.CR.1.1 Generate responses to art using both personal and formal criteria.
7.G.1.3 Explain how natural disasters (e.g. flooding, earthquakes, monsoons and tsunamis), preservation efforts and human modification of the environment (e.g. recycling, planting trees, deforestation, pollution, irrigation systems and climate change) affect modern societies and regions.
7.G.2.2 Use maps, charts, graphs, geographic data and available technology tools to interpret and draw conclusions about social, economic, and environmental issues in modern societies and regions.
7.C.1.2 Explain how cultural expressions (e.g. art, literature, architecture and music) influence modern society.
