Circle Around Copernicus: Cross-curricular team-teaching & mindfulness for students, by Rob Garrett
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This video is for educators and those interested in teaching and learning methodologies.
It shares the team-teaching insights of three elementary school teachers: Rob Garrett (Art & English), Ania Pawłowska (Geography & Science), and Małgosia Niwińska (History & Polish).
“Circle Around Copernicus” was originally presented at “Successful Teaching of Foreign Languages and Other Subjects in a Good School: Competencies, Integration, and Innovations”, an online conference for teachers on 14 February 2023. The conference was organised and hosted by Šiauliai City Municipality Education Center and Šiauliai "Romuva" Progymnasium, Lithuania.
The presentation is an overview of a cross-curricular team-teaching unit devised by Rob Garrett, Ania Pawłowska and Małgosia Niwińska of The American Elementary School in Gdynia, a private, bi-lingual elementary school in Poland.
The cross-curricular learning unit was devised for two classes of 11-year-olds, 33 students in total, who each educator teaches within their separate subject areas. The teaching team combined learning goals from Art and architecture, Geography, History, Science, Maths, and English. The unit was centred on a 1-day field trip to the historic town of Frombork, 2-hours from our school in Gdynia, on the Baltic coast.
The video presentation explores three themes:
• Cross-curricular team-teaching,
• Effective mindfulness, and
• Hands-on experiences.
IMAGE CREDITS:
The monument: Sculpted in 1973 by Mieczysław Welter, the monumental bronze statue of Copernicus appears to gaze out over the Baltic Sea. However, his eyes are closed, and this ‘inward gaze’ is emblematic of Welter’s expressionistic representation of Copernicus. He holds a Lily of the Valley to his breast, and the rough patina and simplified outline both suggest the stylistic influence of ancient, pre-Christian Polish stone carvings* that once populated the forests and hills of the region. These three symbolic elements – closed eyes, flow, and ancient stones – suggest the artist was interested in Copernicus’ spiritual and reflective intellect, his humanity in caring for the sick, and his Polish roots, suggesting a cultural and ethnic continuity more powerful than any periodic political detours.
* These are generally referred to as “Baba Pruska” [Prussian woman] (simply because they were discovered under Prussian occupation during the first Partition of Poland, 1772). The Baba Pruska shown in the video currently stands in near the castle in Olsztyn.
The painting of Copernicus: “Astronomer Copernicus” (or “Conversations with God”) was painted by the Polish artist Jan Matejko in 1873, and is in the collection of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków. At the time of making this video, this painting was the only Polish portrait to ever hang in London’s National Portrait Gallery, when it was exhibited there in a special exhibition in 2021.
https://culture.pl/en/article/to-the-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrono...
The painting depicts Nicolaus Copernicus observing the heavens from a balcony in a tower with Frombork cathedral’s gothic spires visible in the background. The location depicted by Matejko is somewhat fictional. Modern scholars are still looking for the exact location of the Copernicus observatory and agree that Matejko's portrayal was more of a "romantic vision". Whereas Matejko shows Copernicus on top of a tower opposite the West Face of the Cathedral (visible over the parapet – and there is a small tower in this location as part of the outer wall), his small observatory was probably at ground level, possibly in the garden of his house (within the Cathedral complex).
The book, the hair, and the corpse: the book shown in the opening sequence in the video is “Calendarium Romanum Magnum”, by Johannes Stoeffler (1518), once owned by Copernicus, and now in the collection of Uppsala University. A strand of hair was found inside this book, and DNA analysis of the hair showed that it came from the corpse that was discovered buried beneath the alter in Frombork Cathedral, thus confirming the burial site as that of Nicolaus Copernicus.
How did Copernicus’ book end up in Sweden? Frombork achieved city rights in 1310, and Nicolaus Copernicus lived and worked on the Cathedral Hill almost continuously from 1510 until his death in May 1543. From 1626 the city was occupied by the Swedish army, which plundered the Cathedral treasury and took the collection of the Chapter Library to Sweden, including the valuable Copernican book collection.
The Cathedral complex in Frombork is internationally significant as an architectural site:
https://medievalheritage.eu/en/main-p...
Pizza-cutting courtesy of Naman Pizzeria and Barbecue.
THANKS to my teaching colleagues & students at The American Elementary School in Gdynia for their support and participation.
It shares the team-teaching insights of three elementary school teachers: Rob Garrett (Art & English), Ania Pawłowska (Geography & Science), and Małgosia Niwińska (History & Polish).
“Circle Around Copernicus” was originally presented at “Successful Teaching of Foreign Languages and Other Subjects in a Good School: Competencies, Integration, and Innovations”, an online conference for teachers on 14 February 2023. The conference was organised and hosted by Šiauliai City Municipality Education Center and Šiauliai "Romuva" Progymnasium, Lithuania.
The presentation is an overview of a cross-curricular team-teaching unit devised by Rob Garrett, Ania Pawłowska and Małgosia Niwińska of The American Elementary School in Gdynia, a private, bi-lingual elementary school in Poland.
The cross-curricular learning unit was devised for two classes of 11-year-olds, 33 students in total, who each educator teaches within their separate subject areas. The teaching team combined learning goals from Art and architecture, Geography, History, Science, Maths, and English. The unit was centred on a 1-day field trip to the historic town of Frombork, 2-hours from our school in Gdynia, on the Baltic coast.
The video presentation explores three themes:
• Cross-curricular team-teaching,
• Effective mindfulness, and
• Hands-on experiences.
IMAGE CREDITS:
The monument: Sculpted in 1973 by Mieczysław Welter, the monumental bronze statue of Copernicus appears to gaze out over the Baltic Sea. However, his eyes are closed, and this ‘inward gaze’ is emblematic of Welter’s expressionistic representation of Copernicus. He holds a Lily of the Valley to his breast, and the rough patina and simplified outline both suggest the stylistic influence of ancient, pre-Christian Polish stone carvings* that once populated the forests and hills of the region. These three symbolic elements – closed eyes, flow, and ancient stones – suggest the artist was interested in Copernicus’ spiritual and reflective intellect, his humanity in caring for the sick, and his Polish roots, suggesting a cultural and ethnic continuity more powerful than any periodic political detours.
* These are generally referred to as “Baba Pruska” [Prussian woman] (simply because they were discovered under Prussian occupation during the first Partition of Poland, 1772). The Baba Pruska shown in the video currently stands in near the castle in Olsztyn.
The painting of Copernicus: “Astronomer Copernicus” (or “Conversations with God”) was painted by the Polish artist Jan Matejko in 1873, and is in the collection of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków. At the time of making this video, this painting was the only Polish portrait to ever hang in London’s National Portrait Gallery, when it was exhibited there in a special exhibition in 2021.
https://culture.pl/en/article/to-the-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrono...
The painting depicts Nicolaus Copernicus observing the heavens from a balcony in a tower with Frombork cathedral’s gothic spires visible in the background. The location depicted by Matejko is somewhat fictional. Modern scholars are still looking for the exact location of the Copernicus observatory and agree that Matejko's portrayal was more of a "romantic vision". Whereas Matejko shows Copernicus on top of a tower opposite the West Face of the Cathedral (visible over the parapet – and there is a small tower in this location as part of the outer wall), his small observatory was probably at ground level, possibly in the garden of his house (within the Cathedral complex).
The book, the hair, and the corpse: the book shown in the opening sequence in the video is “Calendarium Romanum Magnum”, by Johannes Stoeffler (1518), once owned by Copernicus, and now in the collection of Uppsala University. A strand of hair was found inside this book, and DNA analysis of the hair showed that it came from the corpse that was discovered buried beneath the alter in Frombork Cathedral, thus confirming the burial site as that of Nicolaus Copernicus.
How did Copernicus’ book end up in Sweden? Frombork achieved city rights in 1310, and Nicolaus Copernicus lived and worked on the Cathedral Hill almost continuously from 1510 until his death in May 1543. From 1626 the city was occupied by the Swedish army, which plundered the Cathedral treasury and took the collection of the Chapter Library to Sweden, including the valuable Copernican book collection.
The Cathedral complex in Frombork is internationally significant as an architectural site:
https://medievalheritage.eu/en/main-p...
Pizza-cutting courtesy of Naman Pizzeria and Barbecue.
THANKS to my teaching colleagues & students at The American Elementary School in Gdynia for their support and participation.
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