Walls Can Talk Analysis

Green 1
Kristin Green
Assignment 3
English Comp II

Space That Gives Inspiration

Environments have a number of characteristics that influence student growth, development and achievement. Not only is the spatial environment influential to students, but also the classroom visual environment. Lighting, color, and personal displays are environmental factors that make up the visual environment in a classroom. Desks, computers/technology, chairs, storage, and tables are things that make up the physical environment in a classroom. Each should be evaluated to further promote student learning.

The ways in which children recognize their surroundings greatly affects how they will perform. Teachers should view their classroom environments
You walk in and you automatically look around to see if this is somewhere you would want to be. In the article “Walls Can Talk...but Are They Speaking to Teens?” the author Margaret Sullivan tells us that an environment can affect a person as soon as they enter a room or building and that environments can influence both our feelings and our actions. The color of a room can help to set a mood in the class. The color blue promotes a calm feeling and shows creativity and intelligence; yellow is cheerful and energetic and orange increases the oxygen supply to the brain and stimulates mental activity. Most classrooms you see will be white which promotes clean, pure and a sense of peacefulness. Colors have deep unconscious meanings that affect our thinking and rational. Researching colors and planning is a vital part of the design
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