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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Kinetic Sculpture

For Students 3rd - 8th
Try your hand at designing and building an 18-inch tower that can support a tennis ball while a fan blows on it.
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Lesson Plan
Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: Create a Butterfly Mobile

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site provides information on Alexander Calder, the inventor of the kinetic sculpture known as the mobile, as well as detailed instructions on how to create your own butterfly mobile. Included are "Tips and Tricks" to making "a more...
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Website
Science Museum of Minnesota

Science Museum of Minnesota: From Windmills to Whirligigs

For Students 9th - 10th
This folk artist uses the power of the wind to animate his whimsical kinetic sculptures. Check out his decorated yard and try some of the activities inspired by his creations.
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Handout
ArtLex

Art Lex: Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Artlex is a fantastic description of how movement is used in the creation of art. There are links to works of art in sculpture, painting and photography as well as focused interpretations of how different types of movement...
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Other

Tim Prentice: Kinetic Sculpture

For Students 9th - 10th
This artist relies on the wind to move, twist, and turn his sculptures. Fun designs you will want to check out!
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Other

Kinetic Art Links

For Students 9th - 10th
If you're willing to do some serious searching, this is the jackpot site for kinetic art! There are links here for hundreds of artists and museums dedicated to moving art sculptures.
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Other

Andy Plant: Mechanical Sculptures

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This UK artist has a phenomenal collection of kinetic (moving) sculptures. Animations are provided so that you can watch his work in action!
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Other

Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race

For Students Pre-K - 1st
If you live on the East coast, this is a must-see, once-a-year event! Man powered pieces of art take to the streets and seas of Baltimore every spring in a race of the fittest. Fun pictures to view. They may inspire you to create your...
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Handout
Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Listing of Kinetic Sculpture Artists

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtCyclopedia's list of kinetic sculpture artists from the twentieth century. There are links to the sculptors' bio and works.
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Other

Kinetica

For Students 9th - 10th
A museum dedicated to different types of kinetic or moving art. You can see images and read descriptions of kinetic art, robotics, video art, and sound art. Unfortunately there are only images and not videos of the art in motion.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Ties Magazine: Marble Mania

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson idea is great for the middle school student. The challenge is to construct a marble maze or marble coaster where success is based upon the slow continuous motion of the marble.
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Other

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre

For Students 9th - 10th
These wooden, puppet-like machines operate on simple engineering: a turn crank. Watch them in action and see them in a full 360 degree view.
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Other

The Art of Carlos Zapata

For Students 9th - 10th
The simple mechanics of these moving wooden puppets are old-fashioned, yet still appealing to today's audience.