Sinking Animals That Create Evolution
Team:
Antonia Adnet - antoniaadnet@globo.com
Paola Victoria Medeiros - vitz182@hotmail.com
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Group :
André Iorio Rodrigues, professor de natação
Aula de Natação para Crianças
Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 351 - Gávea CEP 22451-040
The chosen place for the making of the project was swimming lessons for children in a Gavea condo. The one in charge is P.E. graduate teacher André Iorio Rodrigues. There are currently 2 different classes; one for children ranging from 5 to 6 years old and the other one from 7 up to 9. In the beginning we were observing only the older class but later on we started to check the younger ones' as well.
Our goal was settled after sorting out the group of words that constituted André's vocabular universe, which led to the following sentence: ''Dedication, practice and concentration leads to evolution in the water''.
The teacher was always trying to keep the children focused, proposing activities that were not only important for their swimming development but also kept them entertained, like throwing colored hoops at the bottom of the pool for the pupils to fetch.
Based on the experiments organized by the teacher, we identified his intention of keeping the kids focused in a fun way, making the most out of their performance.
The final objects are educational figures meant for being used on the bottom of the pool. There are 10 different animals made of EVA rubber with varied colors and numbers on each. Small pieces of lead were carefully placed inside the EVA layers so that they could sink. Because of the size of these numbers, they can only be identified while the child keeps his/her head faced down in the water, which is the correct position for swimming. This was thought out because they usually have a tendency for keeping their heads out of the water, which damages their development.
The animals can be used forming a line at the bottom for the children to swim through and then be asked specific questions regarding the color, number or shape; they can also be used like the colored hoops, with the teacher asking the children to fetch the figures with the desired number in the bottom.
Antonia: When you make a project you learn how to organize things better and how to be persistent. Everything is a surprise, everything can change, transform and turns out to be the opposite of what you were thinking and planning before. The most important thing is open your mind and produce the maximum you can, in the better possible way.
Paola: Making the project is to be fully involved in a task that requires teamwork just as much as it requires individual work. It means to always act with dedication and be humble enough to acknowledge that the ideas that sound better at first aren't always the ones that will produce the most satisfactory results. It is also to gather all the information you can in order to obtain a final product that is useful and represents all the effort put into it along the way.
Subject: ART 1031
Class: 1AB
Professor: Ana Branco e Carlos André Côrtes
e-mail: ana.branco@rdc.puc-rio.br