Organisms, Land Art and In-Depth Learning

This visual essay investigates a teaching activity using the shoreline as an interdisciplinary learning arena within both arts and crafts and natural science. The focus was on anatomy, physiology and adaptations of organisms in this challenging ecosystem. In the exploratory and creative part, students were assigned to find, observe and get to know an organism, which they reproduced in a larger scale using indigenous materials. Empirical material was analyzed phenomenologically to capture what teacher students express and experience through partici pation in the project. Photos from the process and products, student’s poems and narratives, document their collaborative learning experiences and how they collectively express artwork that focuses attention on being an organism in the tidal zone. Synergy between Land Art as an aesthetical approach and natural science facilitates in-depth learning