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Linda Hall Library of Science: The Grandeur of Life
Online exhibit of scientific illustrations from rare books of natural history. Earliest examples date from the fifteenth century.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Scientific Community
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How the scientific community shares results and monitors scientific integrity.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Art in Engineering Moving Art
Students learn how forces are used in the creation of art. They come to understand that it is not just bridge and airplane designers who are concerned about how forces interact with objects, but artists as well.
The National Gallery (UK)
The National Gallery: Celestial Globe
As part of a larger exhibit on science and the history of scientific instruments, this site examines a detail from a painting by Olivier van Deuren which features a celestial globe. The globe is only one feature of the larger, more...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mobile Forces
The application of engineering principles is explored in the creation of mobiles. As students create their own mobiles, they take into consideration the forces of gravity and convection air currents. They learn how an understanding of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Environmental Education: Art and Crafts
A collection of arts and crafts activities to support environmental education or celebrate Earth Day.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Inness in the Countryside
Discussion of a landscape painting by George Inness will introduce students to the impact of the railroad on the countryside in mid-nineteenth-century America. They will depict this same scenery as they envision it in the past and in the...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Cool / Warm Name Design Rubbings [Pdf]
In this lesson, 3rd graders reflect on who they are by listing their likes and dislikes, beliefs, hobbies, etc. They then create a rubbing of their name and add rubbings of objects they like, along with symbols and sketches. Next, they...
California State University
Fantasy Food Groups Fun Land
Come slide down chocolate mudslides and bounce on marshmallows in this crazy imaginary art lesson. Students work to create a fantasy land made entirely of different foods. Students are encouraged to use knowledge of the six food groups...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Drawing Dinosaurs
A tutorial on how to draw a realistic dinosaur starting from a picture of a skeleton.
Other
National Gallery, London: Take One Picture Science
Here are some wonderful examples of how to use art to teach science. Lesson plans are not included but there is a brief explanation of the project for each visual example.
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Hunter O'reilly: Abstract Artist and Geneticist
Galleries of artwork and information on the artist Hunter O'Reilly.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Earth Science Art
Students are invited to integrate scientific understanding with artistic expression.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: From Microscopes to Large Scale Sculpture
This site is about the microbiologist turned artist, Kendall Buster turns what she sees under the microscope into oversized sculptures.