Rocking Chair Blues is an innovative student driven activity which demonstrates that we as a society can easily be hypnotized by the overwhelming positives of technological advancements. Students will accomplish specific tasks over a two-week period with a culminating classroom presentation. Students will learn to be creative, build their craftsmanship skills, calculated dimensions and mold a sense a pride in their individual work. The students will utilize their innate creativity to construct a modern Rocking Chair to scale, which can successfully rock back and forth using K'nex model building kit. The students will develop their individual craftsmanship by creating an original design a modern Rocking Chair which demonstrates pride in workmanship.

Concepts

technological advancements

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Additional Tags

craftsmanship, broward education foundation: rocking chair blues, arts and crafts

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