The anti-solitude machine (Part 2)
You are now at the second part of your creative project! If you have already finished the first part—Creative Conception—you can continue your quest with this activity. But if you haven't finished the first part yet, then start with that one, then you can come back here.
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| Objective: To create the blueprint of a redoubtable anti-solitude machine! |
Duration: 60 to 90 minutes
Material:
- A sheet of paper or a piece of cardboard
- Coloured pencils, markers, eraser
- Scissors, glue, arts and crafts materials
Instructions:
- Reread your sheet. Take a moment to reread your ideas and review your Creative Conception draft. This will refresh your memory and perhaps give you some new ideas before you get into the final part of your project.
- Create the blueprint for the anti-solitude machine. Here we go! It's time for you to draw the blueprint for this redoubtable machine! On a new piece of paper or on a large cardboard—if you need more space to bring your ideas to life—draw the different parts of your machine with all your care and talent. Add colour, decorations and patterns to enhance your invention!
- Inspiration: If you need inspiration, you can look on the internet or in books you have at home for examples of various machines' blueprints. You can even get inspiration from furniture assembly instructions! You can draw your machine in parts and identify each of them with a legend. You can make a cross section to show the mechanisms hidden inside your machine. You can draw enlargements of certain parts to see the really sophisticated circuits you have designed. You can even draw your machine from different angles!
- Variation: If you want to, you can also make a model of your machine! To do so, you can use recyclable materials, glue and paint.
- Think about your creative experience. Finally, after you've finished, you can ask yourself: How did it go? Did you succeed in realizing the vision you had at the beginning?
- Conception: Does your creation represent what you think solitude is? How do your creative choices reflect your perspectives on the concept?
- Application: What lessons can be learned from your interpretation? Should solitude disappear? Why or why not?
- Alternative: What could you have changed? Are there nuances that you did not include? Imagine that your machine is turned on: Does it do a good job of eliminating solitude? Does it work in all contexts? What could you change to make it even more effective?
You can write your answers on the back of your conception sheet to keep track of your evolving thoughts.
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Bonus: Your blueprint was stolen by a team of scientists who built the machine you imagined. The only problem is... without your valuable knowledge, the team was unable to calibrate the machine properly. As a result, when it was first turned on, it exploded, forever eliminating all the solitude of the universe! What would a world without solitude look like? What could be the impact of this fateful error? Can you identify positive and negative consequences of the elimination of solitude? |
| Tricks for tots: Test your machine! Imagine having your machine in your hands. You turn it on. What happens? Describe the effects on your environment and on your mood. Then lend your machine to other people and ask them to describe their experience. Does your solitude machine have the same effect on everyone? Does solitude affect everyone the same way? Why or why not? |
| Tips for teens: As you share on live TV your new discovery and the first blueprint of your anti-solitude machine, pro-solitude protesters stand up in the audience and hold up signs! What can you read on those signs? What are the protesters demanding? Why do they want to protect solitude? If you want, drop your mad scientist impersonation and join the protest by making your own sign defending the protection of solitude! |
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Include photos of your projects and notes of your thoughts, as well as your first name and your age!
