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Miriam Schapiro Action Figures Collage
Learners create a background with a marbling technique. They plan and create a figure from assorted papers, mixing solids and patterns. Students glue the figure to the background, and embellish negative space with glitter.
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Shaping the View: Composition Basics
High schoolers view images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art web site, and list the objects and figures in the image. They discuss the way their eyes move around the canvas and take note of where their eyes fall, follow and finish....
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When a Chair is More than A Chair.....
Students research an artist of their choice and design a piece of art that represents that artist to them. They make sketches, plan their armature, cut out armature, pad with newspapers and apply layers of paper mach??.
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Solar Hot Dog Cooker
Students create a solar hot dog cooker. In this solar energy lesson, students use various materials such as tin foil and cardboard to build a hot dog cooker. Students cook their own hot dogs.
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Magic Wand
Students observe how an image falling on a CCD array is divided into individual pieces, by the property of persistance of vision.
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Spherical Mirrors
Students view images in a spherical mirror and interpret the path of light. For this physics lesson, students view a large spherical mirror demonstrated by the instructor. They use shiny serving spoons to investigate the path of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Italian Gold Ground Painting
Many of the early works in the paintings collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are altarpieces and fragments of altarpieces made for Italian churches. They were placed above altars and served as the focal point of the Mass. Churches in...