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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Popular Culture

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze the period of Belle Epoque and the methods of art that signified popular culture. For this art analysis lesson, students consider the ways popular culture influenced art by analyzing the images and completing image based...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lithography Techniques/Making a Printed Circuit Board

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students create an electronic schematic on their PCB. In this physics instructional activity, students solder and assemble electronic components. They research the function of these components and share their findings in a group.
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Lesson Plan
Arizona State University

Asu: Lesson Two: Art for Protest or Persuasion (Printmaking Option)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Site for teachers who are seeking to integrate art and printmaking with language, communication and social studies. It is based on Chicano and Mexican use of the print to make social statements.
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Handout
Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Alphabetical Listing of Printmakers

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtCyclopedia offers a clickable list of printmakers from the formation of the media to the present--includes links to biographies and works.
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Handout
The Wharton Group

Discover France: Henri De Toulouse Lautrec

For Students 9th - 10th
This website from discoverfrance.net features Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the famous postimpressionist painter.
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 4: 2 D Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This fourth unit of a course on Art Appreciation looks at different forms of two-dimensional art. Students learn about the invention of paper, early perceptions of drawing, how hatching and cross-hatching were used by Michelangelo,...
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Handout
Other

Original Antique Prints and Print Processes

For Students 9th - 10th
Reference and glossary for printmaking with a gallery of print examples connected to the sites home page.
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Handout
CGFA

Carol Gerten Fine Arts: M. C. Escher

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a very informative biography as well as a gallery with 15 pictures of great Escher art.
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PPT
Other

University of Delaware Physics Department: Lithography

For Students 9th - 10th
University of Delaware Physics Department provides this indexing page for a slide show presentation.
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Website
Other

Univ. Of Delaware Physics: More Semiconductor Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Delaware Physics Department provides this site from a site titled "Silicon, Circuits, and the Digital Revolution," here is a series of four pages which explain the details behind how semiconductors work. An introduction...
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Graphic
Martin Lawrence Galleries

Martin Lawrence Galleries: Fanny Brennan

For Students 9th - 10th
Brennan's work is very similar to that of Rene Magritte except that she is a printmaker. She enjoys working in small scale which compliments her simplicity.
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Other

University of Kansas: Lithograph

For Students 9th - 10th
Using Richard Parkes Bonnington's Tour du gros horloge, Evreux as a springboard into discussion, this site outlines the printmaking process using lithograph. The drawing materials used in lithograph printmaking are also discussed.
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Website
Other

What Is an Original Print?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has descriptions of many printmaking processes as well as links to other printmaking sites and galleries.
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Graphic
Other

Currier & Ives Online Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
An amazing collection of Currier & Ives prints. Click on the links to see the enlarged images.
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Handout
Other

Harappa.com: Lithographs

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent review of the discovery and history of what Aloys Senefelder originally called "Chemical Painting".
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Website
Other

Linda Hall Library of Science: Women's Work: Scientific Illustrators: Printing

For Students 9th - 10th
Historical overview of two early forms of printmaking: intaglio and lithography.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Agnes Tait

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Agnes Tait is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her work with lithographic prints.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: m.c. Escher

For Students 9th - 10th
An awesome review of the M.C. Escher exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. There are 24 images of Escher's works here out of the 330 that the National Gallery has on hand. There is also a biography on Escher that is very useful.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture: Lillian Russell

For Students 9th - 10th
This poster of Lillian Russell, star of light opera, was produced by the Strobridge Lithography Company. Find out how it was produced and why the artistic choices were made in designing it.
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Vlsi Design

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a VLSI design course taught at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. The course focuses on design, verification, and test with forty lectures. Topics covered include bipolar junction...
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Handout
Other

Printmaking Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
A listing with definitions of various techniques from the medium of printmaking. No image examples are used in this site.
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PPT
Other

Alien Travel Guide: All About Sculpture

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is a descriptive site that offers information on types, styles, media, artists, history, and periods in creation of sculpture.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Benton Spruance

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Benton Spruance is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his extensive work with Lithographic prints.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Stow Wengenroth

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Stow Wengenroth is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work as a lithographer.