The arrow of time
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This document outlines a lesson plan for a cross-curricular activity involving physics, poetry, and technology for 15-year old students. The lesson introduces the concept of entropy and how time cannot move backwards. Students analyze examples of how art depicts time, including films and paintings. They learn about entropy processes and give examples. Students then practice analyzing poems about time and writing their own four-line poems about time, which they have the option to share online. The goal is for students to understand entropy and analyze how time is portrayed in different mediums, both with and without technology.
The arrow of time
- 1. TIME Lesson 1. The arrow of time Institution: Institut Pompeu Fabra. Martorell Grade: the 4th (15 years old students) Teachers: Raquel Basante, maths teacher, and Pere López Tolosana, educational psychologist Theme: Art and education Crosscurricular activity involving communication in English, maths, physics, poetry and ITC Competences: – Understanding the concept of entropy – Analysing human and computer productions about time, with and without ITC. – Composing poems about time Educational resources: ………………………………………. MOTIVATION Have you heard about entropy? Have you ever thought about how time cannot going backwards? Have you ever written a poem?We show several videos made by our students where you can see some entropic processes. ……………………… Moreover, we show them some examples about how art has dealt with time: films like “Back to the future”, paintings like “The persistence of memory” by Salvador Dalí… ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE We explain to the students the how the entropi processes work, and ask them for some examples oaboutit. Our students show and analyse some poems where time is a central issue. We show how they can analyse and produce some poems with and without ICT. PRACTICE – Students practice with the programs – Students look for examples of poems PRODUCTION – Students must write a four-line poem each one – Teachers help students make their compositions – Students read the poems aloud. – The students who want, give us thier poems and we upload them to the site of the project.