Monkwearmouth Academy transition booklet Name: ________________________ Primary School: ________________ You’re in the middle of a once-in-a- lifetime sailing trip around the world. As you pass the Equator , you plough into a pile of floating debris. A large log smashes into your hull and your yacht quickly sinks. Luckily for you, you’re a great swimmer, and you can see a small island on the horizon. Unluckily for you, it is uninhabited. Your challenge is to stay alive until help arrives. Theme: Deserted on a beautiful island 1. Every subject area has a section in the booklet with some activities which will support the theme. 2. Read the instructions carefully and enjoy the activities! 3. Complete the ‘12 point challenge’ at the end of the booklet and bring your final pieces of work to Monkwearmouth and share with your tutor. Contents 1 Art 2 Computing 3 Design and Technology 4 English 5 Geography 6 History 7 Maths 8 Modern Foreign Languages 9 Music 10 PE 11 Science 12 12 point challenge New Vocabulary Medium: the material or ‘stuff’ used by the artist eg. Paint Pigment: a substance used for ART colouring or painting, usually a powder which when mixed with water or oil, becomes a paint or ink To get your creative juices flowing and to prepare you to move into secondary level art, we are setting you some challenges that will allow you to get creative not just in making some artwork, but also making the medium for your artwork. By completing these activities, you will be ahead with some key learning that takes place in Year 7 and it’s a great way to have fun and try something new. As you have found yourself on a desert island, you suddenly have a lot of time of your hands… but unfortunately no art materials. Luckily for you, you are surrounded by natural things such as plants and berries that you can use to create your own paints. This is in fact a great time of year to experiment with natural paints and pigments. It’s easy to forget that in the not too distant past, all dyes and paints had to be obtained from the natural world; directly from animals, minerals and plants. Paints are made from two things: pigment and a binder. The binder is what helps the colour stay on whatever you’re painting on. The resulting colours may not always have been as bright as those obtained from chemical sources, but they have a beauty of their own. You don’t need a lot to get started and it’s easy once you get the hang of it! When it comes to experimenting with making your own paints, by far the easiest to obtain, especially at this time of year, is from berries. The colours obtained in this way range from subtle blues and purples, to pinks and reds. The juice from berries was best used as it comes, though for some berries (e.g. damsons and blueberries) where the colour is mostly in the skins, they need to be cooked a little first to release it. When using fresh plant material, like onion skins you need to place the material in a pan, and simmer it for a while. Blue Red/Pink Yellow Orange Green Brown Purple/ Black White Pink Blackberries, Beetroot, rose Mustard powder, Paprika, chilli Most of the best Coffee, Natural Berries, or Soot or charcoal Chalk or even blackcurrants, petals, turmeric powder powder, rust greens were soil or earth beetroot. Try talcum powder blueberries cranberries, (find these in the scrapings originally blackberries, strawberries spice cupboard) obtained from blueberries, minerals. The elderberries, You could try most common blackcurrants, using the outer way used by redcurrants, skin of an onion artists was to bilberries, raspb and simmering it simply to mix erries, in some boiling blue and yellow. strawberries water Wear old clothes as some Task 1: Making Paint! natural paints will stain! Use only the recommended Experiment with making your own plants and foods, avoid anything you don’t know what it paints! Try using the suggestions is. above to create swatches of colour. Get an adult to help you if simmering plants in boiling Label your ingredients and how you water. have made the paint. • Push berries or other soft fruit through a sieve to extract your pigment, then mix with just a small splash of water! • Grind petals, leaves, or other dry items before mixing with a tiny, tiny bit of honey! • Powders are the easiest! Just mix powders like mustard powder or coffee with a little water. You don’t want so much water that it’s super runny but you want enough so that it’s not grainy. Task 2: Colour Theory Use either the paints you have made yourself or your own colouring pencils, markers or paints; add colour to the blank colour theory template. Rather than using purple, orange and green, try to mix them yourself (see the guide). Task 3: Get Painting Use either the paints you have made yourself or your own materials to create some artwork. As we have looked at making your own pigment, ideally, try to make work inspired by the stuff you have created your paint with. E.g. Paint the coffee tin if you used coffee granules, or paint the berries that you used to create the colour. You might want to work into these further with pencils or pen to give more detail and definition. Task 4: A bit of history Humans have felt the need to leave their mark on the world in the form of painted images since prehistory. If we look at how art evolved over the years we can know a number of things about the people that created them and the societies they lived in. At some point, early man figured out that by mixing colour giving particles known as pigments into a medium like water or saliva- paint could be created. If you look at paint under a microscope you will see that paint is coloured pigment that is suspended in a medium. Pigments come from multiple sources such as minerals or elements, plants and vegetables, and some are even extracted from insects. The medium could be a variety of substances from oil or egg-yolk in paintings or plaster in fresco. Your task is to research the following periods in history and try to find out as much as you can about how they created their pigments and colours to make art. Prehistoric Cave Paintings Antiquity Paintings (4th Century) – look up Egyptians, Chinese and Indian cultures Colours used: Colours used: How did they make their colours/pigment? How did they make their colours/pigment? Any other interesting information? Any other interesting information? Renaissance Paintings (15rh – 17th Century) Medieval Age Paintings (5th – 15th Century) Colours used: Colours used: How did they make their colours/pigment? How did they make their colours/pigment? Any other interesting information? Any other interesting information? Modern Age Paintings (18th Century) Industrialisation Paintings (19th Century) Colours used: Colours used: How did they make their colours/pigment? How did they make their colours/pigment? Any other interesting information? Any other interesting information? Business, Computing and IT Activity 1 – Social media and e-safety You’ve found an old laptop on the island, but realise you cannot access the internet. You look at the computer files and find a presentation about online safety, but only the heading has been added. You decide to finish the presentation to pass the time. Click here to watch the video about staying safe online (click on the first video on this link). Make a poster or presentation (on paper or on the computer) to inform people how to stay safe when using social media. Activity 2 – Why code? You’ve found a book on the island about how to code. Click here to watch a video about why you should code. Make notes whilst watching the video about why people should code. Write or type a persuasive letter to yourself explaining why you should learn to code. Activity 3 – Business activity You start to think this island could be developed to attract tourists. If you were to try and attract tourists what businesses would you allow on the island? Explain your reasons. Think about how businesses try and attract you to buy their products. Where could you advertise to attract people? What promotions could you do to entice people to visit? You could ask people at home for some suggestions. Welcome to design and technology at Monkwearmouth Academy. In design there are a number of factors that should be considered before we even think about designing and making new products. We use something called the 6 R’s to help us think more about the need for a new product. • Can we Recycle materials? • Are we able to Re-use materials/components/products? • Is it possible to Reduce the amount of energy and resources used? • Can we Refill containers? • Can products be Repaired products? • Re-think – Would be able to use this product to do something else? If possible watch the video Dennis makes a toy car: https//vimeo.com/34563622. If you’re stuck on a desert island you need to be resourceful, you don’t know how long you’re going to be stuck on a desert island for. Washed up on the shore you see some of the debris from your sunken ship including some plastic bottles, string and some other basic resources. You are going to use the resources to produce a product that will keep you occupied until help arrives.