Planetary Science, Prose, Poetry & Jeweley/Metals

Aurora Clark

This site is intended to be a visual and written record of my dabbling in the discipline of the sciences, the at-times easier field of writing and the art of jewelry making.

I took Intro to Planetary Science and Intro to Jewelry/Metals at the same time, ending up with a head full of facts about the solar-system and plier calluses. Beyond that, it went no-where. Two poetry classes, a Lunar & Planetary Science Confrence, Intermediate Enameling and several Geology courses later... I still didn't have a clue.

Even after all that, I had not consciousely considered applying my science to my art in anything but my story writing, which was the reason I had taken Planetary Science to begin with. It was after I started looking at a few of the things I'd written in my poetry classes and experimenting with different jewelry/metals techniques that things started to click.

Here are some of the things I began to ask

• How can you teach something complicated in a simple way?
• How can you keep your audiance interested and informed at the same time?
• How do you present a concept to a varied audiance and still be exact about it?
• How do you make learning something interesting for people who have been 'learned out'?

My answers are still incomplete, but here is what I've come up with so far

• Use different mediums than what is considered "normal"
• Present your information in a way that is easily read or understood
• If you can't present it that way, use side notes