Monday, 16 March 2015

Neighborhood Map-Out of Eden

The grade 6 students are working on a project this semester called Out of Eden Learn. This was created by project zero at Harvard University following the footsteps of Paul Salopeck. Every 100 miles, Paul stops and records a narrative and takes a picture of the sky, ground, and the sound at that location. As part of the project the students go through six footsteps.At this point they are on footstep two, and the following is an explaination for the acitivity they currently worked on.
The aim of this activity is to have students think about where they live and to know more of their neighborhood.
They sketched a map of their neighborhood or local area, as they see it. They drew this map on paper and took photographs it to upload to the site. Some also used an oline drawing program to create their maps.
The then, wrote a story about their map some of whom described a typical day in their life around their neighborhood, a memorable moment they have had in their home, or a story they have heard from someone else.

Here are some examples of their work along with their story.




~Miyu~
  1. I live in Injambakkam on about half year. My house is next to the Futa’s house. And near the VGP and sea.
  2. Near the my house, bloom the pink’s flower.
  3. This place is construction.
     E.  There are palm trees in a someone’s house.


















Hi, my name is Yoobin and I am 13 years old. I have lived in Chennai for a bit more than two years but I still don’t know my neighborhood really well.. To me who lived in South Korea for 11 years, India was quite new to me. Everything was new, such as loads, buildings, and people. When I first moved to India, I never even knew where I would live or where my school would be located. But as time went on and on, two years just flew by quickly.
There are many buildings in my neighborhood. There are huge hotels and apartments around my apartments. One of the hotels in my town is ‘OOOOO Palace’. Sometimes, my mom and I go to the bakery there and buy some macarons for a snack. There is a ‘Subway’ though I never went inside. Sometimes I go to the apartment near my house where my friend lives. Over time, my neighborhood has changed a bit. I feel like the pigeons that disrupt my sleep every morning have increased, but the homeless dogs around my apartment have decreased. I will always remember the smell of my neighborhood which is pleasant all the time.

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