Recently we have been having a lot of discussions about how our world is getting affected, specifically in the context of waste, landfills and how our oceans are getting affected in return. We wanted to do something about this and were given the opportunities by our facilitators. So they helped us create a platform where our ideas can grow, be implemented and learnt from. The created platform is T.R.U.I-Tinker, Reduce, Recycle, Reuse, Up-cycle and Innovate. The plan was to have T.R.U.I shops; shops that have items that have been 'T.R.U.I.- ed' or you could say made out of waste.
T.R.U.I shops sound fun, right? But if we were going to do something effective and impactful, we needed a plan. So as a class we sat down and thought about what all these materials could be used for. We thought of many things from pencil holders to sound amplifiers, lamp shades to coasters, key chains to racks and so much more. We realised that we not only had to come up with ideas but had to pick the most effective ones and to do this, we had to come up with a set of parameters. So we took our facilitators' help and came up with a set of parameters - Effective, Useful, Abundantly Sourceable, Sturdy and Aesthetically Pleasing. Using these parameters, we picked out three main ideas: coasters, lamp shades and wind chimes.
Before jumping into making things, we know there was so much more to learn about all of these and we found connecting what we learnt to T.R.U.I a little hard. Because of this we were not able to push our ideas and shops forward. Observing this, our facilitators understood that T.R.U.I lost its importance and that it became a side project. To turn this around, they gave us MISSION T.R.U.I. Now everything we learnt and did connected to T.R.U.I. and it finally made sense. T.R.U.I became the centre of our learning. We connected so much more than we did before, we learnt so much more than we did before and we started using T.R.U.I as a big part of our learning. Well, now we are learning surface area, displacement, distance, non-chronological reports, documentation and perspectives.
While during one of our discussions in our class, we came to a conclusion that frisbees are the most bought toys. So we all figured, why not make up-cycled frisbees? Now, how will the learning stated above help us? Well, the distance and displacement will help us understand how the frisbee moves thus, helping us make frisbees based on that. We can open the frisbee in a net shape and figure out its surface area to understand how big the frisbee needs to be and most importantly, to help us record and document it.
And this is my journey so far.
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