SPIDERS - WEBS - PATTERNS - MEMORY

A HUMANITIES & SCIENCE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY

BY: Helen Melanson and Adam Coulter

• 1. Essential Questions:
  • A. What factors determine visual patterns in spiders' webs?
    • 1. Environmental
    • 2. Species
  • B. What factors determine visual patterns of humans?
    • Examples: family crest, Scottish plaids
• 2. Procedures:
  • A. Examine specific spider species
  • B. Research origins of specific human patterns
  • C. Examine the part memory and instinct play in patterning processes

Quote: A Map of The World
Jane Hamilton

"From early I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone. Memory still seems a gift to me and I hold tight to those few things that are forever gone and always a part of me, while the new life, the changing view, streams by.