Monday, August 17, 6:00 pm
Presented By: Catamount Arts
For early childhood educators
Monday, August 17, 6-8pm
VIRTUAL
Instructor: Rebecca Mack
Sound is an ephemeral material, moving and changing just like young children! Like kids, sound has incredible potential for scientific exploration and creative expression. And it’s all around us! In this workshop, teaching artist Rebecca Mack leads early childhood educators in reimagining ordinary objects and circumstances in the classroom for their creative potential as tools to manipulate sound, understanding it as a waveform of energy.
The workshop is supported by Rebecca’s illustrated book, A Handbook of Sound and Light. It is aimed at scientific understanding of these waveforms, along with applications in creative expression and the arts, and is in simple, general language. They will use examples from the book to spark thought, conversation and creativity. Educators will plan simple, elegant documentation of the children’s encounters with sound, ready to capture those poetic expressions of foundational concepts in science.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Monday, August 17, 6-8pm
VIRTUAL
Instructor: Rebecca Mack
Sound is an ephemeral material, moving and changing just like young children! Like kids, sound has incredible potential for scientific exploration and creative expression. And it’s all around us! In this workshop, teaching artist Rebecca Mack leads early childhood educators in reimagining ordinary objects and circumstances in the classroom for their creative potential as tools to manipulate sound, understanding it as a waveform of energy.
The workshop is supported by Rebecca’s illustrated book, A Handbook of Sound and Light. It is aimed at scientific understanding of these waveforms, along with applications in creative expression and the arts, and is in simple, general language. They will use examples from the book to spark thought, conversation and creativity. Educators will plan simple, elegant documentation of the children’s encounters with sound, ready to capture those poetic expressions of foundational concepts in science.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe opportunities for using sound in their classrooms to guide creative expression and scientific understanding in very young children.
- Design rich encounters with sound using materials already available in the classroom.
- Work with a peer to identify the TSG/VELS standards that fit their designed encounters.
- Include the design of compelling documentation at the outset of the encounter.
FREE, but advance registration is required. You will receive a Zoom link a few days before the workshop. Those who attend will receive Documentation of Professional Development. Workshops are presented with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Arts Council.
Register via our CLASS PORTAL.
Rebecca Mack is a musician and visual artist teaching, living and working in the Old North End neighborhood of Burlington, Vermont. A former preschool art teacher, they are the author of Handbook of Sound and Light, a creative companion for curious minds.