Yr 9 GATS Project
This is a
semester-based program, design to provide opportunities for investigative
activities and artistic productions to identified and targeted students
who demonstrate sincere interests in particular topics or problems across
the curriculum and who show a willingness to pursue these topics at advanced
levels of involvement. Each individual student will assume the role of
a first-hand enquirer; thinking, feeling and acting like a practising
professional.
Objectives
- To
provide opportunities in which creative students can apply their interests,
knowledge, creative ideas and task commitment to a self-selected problem
or area of study
- To
acquire advanced level understanding of the knowledge (content) and
methodology (process) that are used within particular disciplines, artistic
areas of expression and interdisciplinary studies.
- To
develop authentic products that are primarily directed toward bringing
about a desired impact upon a specified audience.
- To
develop self-directed learning skills in the areas of planning, organisation,
resource utilization, time management, decision making, and self-evaluation.
- To
develop task commitment, self-confidence, feelings of creative accomplishment,
and the ability to interact effectively with other students, teachers,
and persons with advanced levels of interest and expertise in a common
area of involvement.
Outcomes
- Personalized
learning by Doing.
- Real
purpose applied to the production of a real product for a real audience.
- Student's
role is transformed from lesson-learner to first-hand inquirer.
- Synthesis
and application of content, process and personal involvement.
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teaching & learning links
FROM GATS PROJECT TO YOUNG INVENTORS
Year 10 student Callen Dick recently appeared on the ABC program New Inventors with his GATS project. “My idea uses the structure of buildings and quite possibly the layout of cities to harness wind energy.” said Callen.
”Imagine a city where the high rise buildings were more like trees putting back into the environment more than they take from it!” These are the thoughts that led Callen to develop his design for modifying the corners and roofs of high rise buildings in order to capture wind and direct it into the flow chambers where the turbine blades are housed.
His vision for renewable energy has seen Callen selected to attend a conference at the Questacon Science Centre in Canberra where his ideas were further developed in collaboration with engineers and scientists. It was here that a producer from New Inventors saw Callen’s project and approached him to appear on the Bright Spark segment of the show.
Callen appeared on the New Inventors Wednesday evening 19th September on ABC. The recorded segment can also be seen at school on clickview.
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