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Smith, K. (2008). How to be an explorer of the world: Portable life museum. Perigee Trade

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I experimented with shapes of stains and splotches. Most of the stains and splotches I found were on pavement on the ground. Most of them just seemed to be circles to me but one sure looked like a pony.

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I had not payed much attention to them, until now. Patterns were everywhere around my house. In light shades, on screen doors, on partitions, on sidewalks, and in cloth to name a few. There were rectangles, squares, triangles, circles, and even tear drop shapes.

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When I walked into Fresh Street Market in West Vancouver, I was overwhelmed by how everything was so neatly and perfectly arranged. My eye was immediately drawn to the fresh juices and salad dressings displayed in the coolers. Everything was arranged in size from small to large. When I walked further into the grocery store my eyes were drawn to the display of the multiple vegetables on the back wall. It was so perfectly displayed it reminded me of a photograph; arranged by colour and type of vegetable. The desserts were perfectly arranged by colour, type, and height. As I continued shopping I noticed all the different sizes and shapes of my fruit in my cart. The sizes of my fruit were arranged from small blueberries up to a large cantaloupe. Math was everywhere around me.

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I decided to watch the ageing of an apple over four days.  I took a fresh red, Gala apple, cut it into quarters and waited for it to age. At first it started to turn brown, as the days went by it got smaller, softer, browner, and even crinkled.

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I also played with a stick to represent time. I placed a stick straight into the ground and observed the shadow the sun made. As the sun moved across the sky the shadow moved. If I had placed a dial on the ground it would have accurately told the time of the day.

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I decided to use natural things that I could find in the park behind my house. The materials I used were clovers, bark mulch, and yellow buttercup petals. With the clover flower I tied them all together to make a flower chain then I started to experiment with it. I decorated our deck railing, a small potted tree on the back deck, and the roof of our garage.

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With the bark mulch I arranged them into a heart, a face, and a house. I was inspired by all the different shapes and how they came together.

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With the yellow buttercup petals, I again tied them together to make a chain. I hung the chain on my front door, I wrapped it around my stair railing, and I also laid it onto the planter box in my front yard. I also put them into an ice cube tray. I froze the tray and after it was frozen I took the ice cubes out and put them into a glass of water. It was fun to see all the different ways I could experiment with these three different items.

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I wanted to look at the lifecycle of water. Evaporation off of bodies of water such as our oceans. The water is in the atmosphere and builds up. Eventually it falls in the form of rain; waters our plants and provides us our drinking water. Any water not used will again be evaporated into the atmosphere and the cycle starts again.

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When I was experimenting with the water, I used what was available to me. I watched the water from my taps drip down and tried to see how fast it would go. I experimented with filling a cup with water and seeing how much water it would take to fill a coffee mug. I also placed water into some ice trays and placed it in the freezer to determine how long it would take to freeze the water into solid cubes.