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Visual arts: Jac Scott and Ulverston Victoria High School
School/Setting
Ulverston Victoria High School
Aims
The project was experimental and challenged staff and Year 9 students to answer the following question: "Is it possible to create a visually captivating version of some well known scientific formulas?"
Process
Jac Scott and the chemistry teacher co-delivered a series of workshops in which students selected equations they found interesting and might be suitable to represent visually, researched imagery, colours and symbols. Then the students designed their own equations and these were printed on a large scale and installed in the science department.
Impact
The teacher reflected that the project may be improved in the future by being in the middle of Year 9 rather than at the start of the year, once they have a better understanding of equations. Overall, the students found the project fun and were pleased with the results. Additional funding from the school was found to be able to print all of the equations for display.
“It was great fun…All students were engaged; group work worked… A number of students had to publicly work outside their comfort zones. Students had to explain their ideas to several different audiences.” Chemistry teacher Martin Goodall
Next steps
Some students had originally thought of a wider range of interpretations, using sound, graffiti and 3D but due to a limited budget these could not be explored at the time. The teacher plans to revisit these ideas in the future so the class can experiment with different media.
