"Replanting Resilience"
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Provided by: Jill Pelto Gallery|Published on: June 6, 2023
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Synopsis
- This colorful pair of paintings by Jill Pelto incorporates three line graphs depicting changing environmental conditions, increasing support for environmental protection, and restoration efforts in the Gulf of Maine.
- Students will see that art can be a useful tool to convey ideas about science and data.
Subjects: Biology, Visual and Performing Arts
Authors: Jill Pelto Gallery
Region: North America, USA - Northeast, United States, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This resource provides a hopeful perspective, displaying how people can come together and take action to make a difference.
- This piece takes scientific data and blends it with artwork for a meaningful multidisciplinary resource for students' exploration.
Additional Prerequisites
- It may be helpful to show students on a map where the Great Marsh and National Wildlife Refuge in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire are located.
- This resource provides references for the data presented.
Differentiation
- This resource could supplement another lesson exploring the impacts of sea level rise or climate change policy.
- Have students analyze and compare the data represented in this Jill Pelto watercolor painting that also explores effects of rising temperatures and human activities in the Gulf of Maine.
- Give students the opportunity to explore the data references listed at the bottom of the resource.
- Art classes could take time to learn more about Jill Pelto, her artistic methods, and what fuels the content of her artwork.
- Pair students up to have them analyze the data represented in the art, discussing the line graphs and what specific trends they notice.
- In groups, have students do a deeper dive into the specific actions people have taken to restore the Great Marsh, such as replanting marsh grass and monitoring sea level rise.
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About the Partner Provider
Jill Pelto
Jill Pelto is an artist and scientist whose work focuses on communicating human-environment connections. She incorporates scientific research and data directly into her watercolor paintings — from local trends to global changes. Jill’s artwork was featured on the cover of TIME Magazine in July 2020 and has inspired online features in Smithsonian and PBS News Hour. Jill has created a science-art activity based on this idea and has worked with K-12 students across the U.S. and beyond. By pairing graphical information with visual imagery, Jill hopes students can learn about and connect to climate change topics (good, bad, and in-between) in ways that educate and are emotionally relevant. This data-art activity is flexible and allows students to make their own graph art to share topics they care about.
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