Polygon Project

Folk Tale about Water

Pictorial Version

Koala eating gum leaves Koobor the drought-maker.

Boy has no family to give him water
1.
Koobor had no family to give him water ....

Bow steals water buckets
2.
.... or take him hunting for food.

Boy takes buckets up the tree
3.
So Koobor took all
the water buckets.

Tree magically grows
4.
Koobor chanted magic to make the tree grow.

Villagers come home and are angy
5.
When the people returned they were angry and threw boomerangs.

 

Boy falls from tree and changes into a koala
6.
As Koobor's broken
body hit the ground
he turned into a koala.

Koala eating gum leaves and never drinking water
7.
Never hurt a koala or
there will be a drought.

From that day to this, koalas never drink. They only eat gum leaves.

Creating the folk tale pictures


Children drew the pictures using the whole screen.


Many children were working at once - they did not always draw the same shapes for trees and people but they tried to make them match.


The pictures were then cropped or shrunk.

Project Co-ordinators

Japan

TORIGOE Genshi

TORIGOE Genshi
Director, Space PaO & WONDER Program
Computer Co-ordinator
Yuge Elementary School

Australia

Judith Bennett

Judith Bennett
Computer Co-ordinator
Elanora Heights Primary School

New Zealand

Lynne Ralph

Lynne Ralph
Computer Co-ordinator
Paengaroa School

TORIGOE Yuko

TORIGOE Yuko
LABO Teaching Information Center
Translator for the Space PaO & Polygon Projects

This page was created on 22nd October,1998,

and last modified by Judith Bennett, Australia on 28th October,1998