Melting glaciers, diving leopard seals, getting up close with a humpback whale: it’s not the standard backdrop for a school field trip to the symphony.
But it’s the kind of imagery Andrea Brown’s Gr. 5 class saw on a recent visit to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for a composition blending music with powerful visuals showing the effects of climate change in Antarctica.
It inspired Vancouver elementary teacher Brown to introduce a new interdisciplinary unit: she’s tasked her students to pick an environmental issue they’re interested in to explore via an art form of their choice. The French Immersion students will also submit a
