AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS VERGÍLIO FERREIRA CAROLINA MARTINS AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS VERGÍLIO FERREIRA MARTA SILVEIRA Escola Básica 2/3 D. Fernando II - Sintra JOANA BORGES JOÃO ALMEIDA, PHOTOGRAPHY Escola Básica 2/3 D. Fernando II - Sintra Throughout this school year, the students at D. Fernando II Middle School were asked to look at the world around them in the light of sustainability. This concept was discussed under on-going clarification and soon the students realized that the future of planet Earth depends on it. With the intention to share their ideas and feelings on this issue, a group of students chose to express themselves using Arts: photography, films and drawings. As their ideas were taking shape in their minds and hearts, they were encouraged to record their discoveries, their attempts, thoughts and feelings. As time went on, various students focused their attention on reporting mankind's abuse of Nature. This is the main concern mirrored in their works. Students Carolina Franjoso Maria Sequeira Débora Lourenço Pedro Bastos Iris Santos Tiago Muchagato Joana Velho Helena Moita Deus - Teacher of Natural Sciences The work created collects a number of science concepts: gravity, time, light and colour. All of these belong to the countless elements of the universe that man can't control but has to accept as they belong to life itself. Even though recognizing the inevitability of gravity, time, light and colour, the interaction the work offers the observer by means of a crank, allows them to control, manipulate and contemplate time a little, as well as intuit it. The hanging clock, a fundamental part of the work, is divided into three primary colours which through the movement of the clock hands, generate the secondary colours. This is followed by small elements related to the Portuguese Culture, its values and history. Several poets like Fernando Pessoa, Luís de Camões and Eugénio de Andrade, amongst others, approached those science subjects in poetry. Students Adriana Domingos Ana Ferreira Ana Paulo Beatriz Gomes Beatriz Silva Bruna Manso Catarina Alves Cláudia Catarino Cláudia Geraldo Catarina Tomás Inês Castro Joana Brites Iara Martins Laura Santos Lisandra Moura Mariana Campos Marta Correia Marta Silva Raquel Grilo Rafaela Sousa Rubia Pereira Soraia Silva Yarine Almeida Rui Januário - Mathematics Teacher Mafalda Pé-Curto - Art Teacher AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS VERGÍLIO FERREIRA The class who developed the Sketchbooks on the subject "seeing science through art", is a group of 10th graders of the Arts Course, 15 to 16 years old. To do the work the students were inspired by the observation and contact with microscopic animal and vegetable cells and by watching the animals in the Lisbon zoo. The work aimed at understanding the science role as the start up element to generate plastic language objects, reading different visual messages critically, acting as a new message creator, living and experiencing the scientific spirit to find common points of view between Art and Science. Ana Nunes Beatriz Campos Bruno Ferreira Carolina Martins Cláudia Santos Débora Neiva Diogo Costa Inês Contreiras Jia Hao Ye Josina Silva Indira Massamá Lóssan Póquena Louisa Neider Madalena Brito Margarida Silva Maria Piçarra Maria Pereira Maria Costa Maria Ventura Maria Dionísio Marta Silveira Raquel Gaspar Rita Valente Rita Paisana Sara Graça Simone Matos Tiago Sanches Veljko Stankovic Vera Vilas-Boas Isabel Cristina Trindade - Art Teacher In response to the invitation to participate in the Eksperimenta 2014, APECV launched the project Ast'SCI, which was sponsored by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and included a nationwide contest - art works under the topics of Art and Science, and a seminar. The seminar integrated educators, artists and scientists as keynotes. After the jury's deliberation, three projects by students from three schools were selected to represent Portugal : the Professional School Gustave Eiffel, in Lisbon (23 students) under the coordination of the Visual Arts teacher Mafalda Pé-Curto and Mathematics teacher Rui Januário; Secondary School Vergílio Ferreira (29 students) under the coordination of the visual arts teacher Isabel Trindade, also in Lisbon and School D. Fernando II in Sintra (7 students) under the coordination of Science teacher Helena Deus). "... As their ideas were taking shape in their minds and in their hearts, they were encouraged to record their discoveries, their attempts, their thoughts and feelings. As time went on, various students focused their attention on reporting the abuse of mankind over Nature. This is the main concern reflected on their works." Teacher Helena Deus The Art'Sci exhibition was designed to be the students' and teachers' joint display of their perspectives on the potential of artistic thinking and representation processes to understand the world and its scientific interpretation. Sketchbooks were used for inquiry, reflection, personal views on information and the aesthetic understanding of science concepts. Sketchbooks are widely used by artists (work journal, cahier d'artist) as well as by scientists (scientists' field notebooks) and educational theorists claim their interest to promote creativity in learning environments. Contemporary artists are also exploring this support in their work in progress and as a final product. In secondary school art courses in Portugal, sketchbooks are a common practice and more and more, science teachers are using them with their students with very good results in terms of motivation and ownership of the learning process.