"Replanting Resilience"

• This colorful pair of paintings by Jill Pelto incorporates three line graphs depicting changing environmental conditions, increasing support for environmental protection, and restoration efforts in the Gulf of Maine. 
• Students will see that art can be a useful tool to convey ideas about science and data.
  

Positives

• This resource provides a hopeful perspective, displaying how people can come together and take action to make a difference.
• This piece takes scientific data and blends it with artwork for a meaningful multidisciplinary resource for students' exploration.

Additional Prerequisites

• It may be helpful to show students on a map where the Great Marsh and National Wildlife Refuge in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire are located.
• This resource provides references for the data presented.

Differentiation

• This resource could supplement another lesson exploring the impacts of sea level rise or climate change policy.
• Have students analyze and compare the data represented in this Jill Pelto watercolor painting that also explores effects of rising temperatures and human activities in the Gulf of Maine.
• Give students the opportunity to explore the data references listed at the bottom of the resource.
• Art classes could take time to learn more about Jill Pelto, her artistic methods, and what fuels the content of her artwork.
• Pair students up to have them analyze the data represented in the art, discussing the line graphs and what specific trends they notice.
• In groups, have students do a deeper dive into the specific actions people have taken to restore the Great Marsh, such as replanting marsh grass and monitoring sea level rise.

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