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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Exploring Weather Conditions in Paintings

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Enrich your science instructional activity with watercolors! This lesson plan contains assessment criteria, links to more information, and step-by-step ideas to cultivate your learners' knowledge about weather conditions.
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science, Boston: Leonardo Da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist

For Students 9th - 10th
Archived exhibition about Leonardo lets visitors explore his many dimensions, as scientist, inventor, and artist.
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National Library of France

National Library of France: Heaven and Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how art through the ages has been influenced by the Earth and the heavens. See paintings that attempted to explain the Earth's creation from a scientific standpoint, sacred architecture that provided a place to worship the heavens,...
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Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement

Web Exhibits: Color Vision & Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit demonstrates how human vision works and has influenced Western art. It combines the biology of vision and art history. The exhibit focuses on the eye and its response to color and contrast while highlighting several...
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Other

Kodak Lesson Plans: Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Kodak site is overflowing with science lesson plans submitted by teachers from every grade. Each activity involves using photography to enrich the subject matter.
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Other

Whyville

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Your students can become a citizen of Whyville, an on-line town. They can build a face, build a house, and build a business. There are tons of science experiments for them to try as well as art games at the Getty Museum. This is a great...
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Northwestern University

Block Museum of Art: Anatomy of Gender (Early Anatomical Drawings)

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history of anatomical drawing as a means to sientific exploration of the body and in relation to gender issues, in this exhibit information from "Anatomy of Gender; Early Anatomical Drawings" at the Block Museum of art.
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Northwestern University

Block Museum of Art: Imaging and Imagining Space

For Students 9th - 10th
A collaboration on the topic of "rendering space" between an art theorist and an atronomer yield very interesting visual results that are presented in an exhibit at the Block Museum of Northwestern University.
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National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Everyday Miracles Medical Imagery in Ex Votos

For Students 9th - 10th
The expression of our relationship with illness is illustrated in the 'ex-voto', a devotional painting giving thanks to a saint or deity for a miraculous healing or a blessing. View a series of these fine pieces from around the world on...
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Hanover College

Hanover College: Use of Visual Information in Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Hanover College gives a tutorial on issues of visual representation, such as depth, perspective, texture, shadow, illusion. Begins at an introductory level. Numerous pictures.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian: Science: Week of 4 22 13: Intriguing Science Art

For Students 9th - 10th
View images of beautiful scientific art and read the captions to learn what the images portray. These images are from a contest called the Cool Science Image contest.
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BBC

Bbc Newsround: Artist Creates Work From His Own Tears

For Students 2nd - 5th
Read about an art project in which an artist is using his own tears and a microscope to create works of art.
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Seeker

Seeker: Public Art Generates Renewable Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Article reports on the Land Art Generator Initiative, which works to create public art that adds energy from renewable sources to the power supply.
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Crayola

Crayola: Flying Bird Fact Finds (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, younger young scholars wrap up a bird unit by making a bird mobile and then write facts on their display.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering Pop Ups

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about applied forces as they create pop-up-books - the art of paper engineering. They also learn the basic steps of the engineering design process.
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Space Telescope Science Institute

Hubble Space Photographs: Hst's Greatest Hits 1990 1995

For Students 9th - 10th
Breathtaking images from the Hubble Space Telescope give a new perspective to our world.
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Crayola

Crayola: Dreams and Dinosaurs (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site is a great way to wrap up a unit on dinosaurs. Children create their own "Window clings," then use them in sorting activities. Also provides resources and adaptations. (To access this lesson plan, you must register with...
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Crayola

Crayola: Extraterrestrials Visit Earth (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Your students will love wrapping up a solar system unit with this activity! Children make their own "Travel brochure," about earth, trying to encourage extraterrestrials to visit, by comparing our planet to theirs. This lesson plan also...
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British Library

British Library: Bodies of Knowledge

For Students 9th - 10th
Series of illustrated essays on the different ways that the human body has been represented in art and science across history considers medieval astrology, the ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture, Vitruvius's notion of body symmetry,...
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The National Gallery (UK)

National Gallery, London: Ite: Learning Ideas and Outcomes: Subject Focus

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This extensive lesson plan uses the painting 'A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning' as a starting point to learning in science. Students will use the work by Reubens to learn about a variety of animals and their habitats.
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Princeton University

Cotsen Children's Library: Creepy Crawlies: Insects in Picture Books

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about how insects are used in children's books in this image gallery with descriptions of multiple examples from popular children's literature.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
A really cool site showing Satellite (Landsat 7) images of unique geographical and meteorological phenomena. Images show cloud formations to rainforest devastation.
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Education: Science, Art, and Technology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Six different on-line lectures, with accompanying lessons and project ideas, that discuss the link between art and science.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Making Friends With Franklin

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site is an introduction plus a series of three lesson plans that explore Franklin's portraits plus aspects of his work in science and writing.