Education
Weather Studio
What happens?
Become a weather reported in the “green screen” studio for doing simulated weather reports. Visitors can deliver their own personal prediction for tomorrow’s weather report based on information they have gathered at the weather station exhibit or simply read prepared mad cap prediction.
How does it work?
The set is a simple green-screen studio with camera, lights, Teleprompter, and graphics monitor which allows visitors to appear on-camera and use background graphics to enliven their performances. The teleprompter gives the weather report which visitors have created and saved at the Weather Station. A large monitor allows participating and waiting visitors to view their performances.
Why is it important?
This is a fun and vivid experience giving an insight into the stagecraft and talent needed to perform and on-screen presentation.
How does it relate to the primary curriculum?
DRAMA
Pupils should be enabled to:
- develop their understanding of the world by engaging in a range of creative and imaginative role-play situations on their own and with others,
- develop dramatic skills appropriate to audience, context, purpose and task by using
- simple props to suggest character, and by using symbols and images to develop action and make meaning.
How does it relate to the post-primary curriculum?
The Arts - Drama
- Explore the effects of media and ICT, for example, use projected images in a docudrama on war; use a digital camera to analyse voice and movement in performance etc.
- (Key Element: Media Awareness)
- adopt a role;
- Investigate how skills developed through drama such as empathy, confidence, communication skills are vital to life/work situations and a range of careers, for example, jobs within the creative industries, or involving design, education, management of people and resources, media and technology, performing arts, healthcare, therapy, writing, politics, law, etc.
- (Key Element: Employability)
What thinking skills are involved?
Creative thinking skills, Evaluation skills
What learning styles are involved?
Visual/ spatial, verbal/ linguistic, logical/ mathematical, bodily/ kinaesthetic, musical/ rhythmical, interpersonal, intrapersonal