Art Game from Poetry in Wood

Enterprise Learning Activities

Year Group: 9

Subject Area: Performing Arts

Brief details of Idea:
This is an art based activity, part of a standard offering from a small company called ‘Poetry in Wood’. Students, working in teams, are given a brief to produce a painting. Through negotiation the team members produce the painting.

There is then interaction between the groups to review their paintings and make changes and so on.
There is an opportunity to involve students from other schools as teams in the activity which would promote the uptake of the pathfinder as a whole.

This exercise teaches and re-enforces a number of enterprise and entrepreneurial skills such as working in teams, negotiation skills etc.

ART GAME INSTRUCTIONS

AIMS

To foster end develop:

Imaginative thinking….......achieved by developing a design.

Sequential thinking...........in developing a strategy

Patterns of opportunity………………through team planning.

Communication and judgment………through teamwork and negotiation.

The development: of skills such as:

• Negotiating and conflict resolution.
• The sharing of territory and resources.
• Being able to be ones self within a team.
• Being neither dominating nor overwhelmed by others.

OBJECTIVE.

• This is primarily a large artwork.
• The artwork should be a good illustration of the initial scenario.
• The artwork should fairly reprised: ALL the teams.
• Not necessarily equally. Fairness means an appropriate representative within the given scenario.
• The cross currents of the conflicting interests of the different teams should be seen to be resolved in the finished piece.

TEAM CONTRACT

Before the outset of the game a set of ground rules needs to be laid down and agreed by all. The rules will cover the behaviour expected when working together in closed spaces, conflict resolution end the sharing of resources etc.

The group may wish To vote for one person to act as chairperson or overseer. Their role could be to cull conferences To resolve any disputes that may arise. Any individual within the game can cpprocchl them if they have issues during the game. This person may not necessarily take part in the fane but could very valuably spend their time monitoring and encouraging the working together of all the teams.

The full instructions and example games are available as a download

The inspiration for this game came from the following source http://www.aare.edu.au/02pap/bet02369.htm