"Head Rush"

1.  Project One -  - "How can you combine text and images to make a collage that sends a paradoxical/satirical/or ironic message about the world we live in?"

b.  Label several things in your journal in both English and Spanish.  Notice the similarities and the differences in the two languages.  List 3 similarities and 3 differences.

c. Choose three paintings from art.com that you believe send powerful messages.  Write the message you see beside the image. 

d.  Write lyrics to a pop song that address a social issue of your choice.  Write at least 2 verses.  

e.  Look up Keith Haring .  He died of aids.  Do you think his work should be viewed differently because of his health problems?  Why or why not? 

f.  Make a list of 10 social issues.  Beside each write your stance on the issue - agree, disagree, etc.

g.  Write an ironic joke.

h.  Choose excerpts, slogans, phrases, or key words from journal entries to use as part of an artwork or a title.

b.  Find National Geographic Excerpts about global issues of interests.  Include 2 in your journal.

c. Find Time Magazine excerpts about social issues of interest.  Include 2 in your jorunal.

d.  Find 5 current facts about the environment to include in your journal.

e. View and comment on the film OR read the speech entitled: "All Things Art Connected" by Chief Seattle

f.   Summarize Mahatma Ghandi's biography

http://www.mkgandhi.org/biography/

g.  Summarize Mother Theresa's biography

http://www.drini.com/motherteresa/her_life/

Ms. Link will tell you the story of One Million.

b. View and describe the narrative quality of Masaccio's Tribute Money

http://vandyck.anu.edu.au/introduction/earlyren/17-48.jpg

c. View the work of Kruger.  Include 3 powerful examples in your journal.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/kruger_barbara.html

d.  View the work of Rauschenberg and include an example in your journal that has a political overtone/undertone.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/rauschenberg_robert.html

a.  Parody

b.  Satire

c. Irony

d.  Narrative

e.  Storyboard

f.  Collage

g.  Registers

h.  Personification

i.  Eclectic

j.  etymology

k.  radical, liberal, conservative, extremist

l.  passive resistence  

m  social conscience

a. Rod Stewart "Every Picture Tells a Story"

 b.  Alanis Morrisette "Ironic" 

c. Emerson, Lake, & Palmer "Lucky Man"

d.  Eagles "The Last Resort"

e.  Buffalo Springfield

f.  Avril Lavigne "Sk8r Boy"

http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/TEACH

/floral/color.htm

"Flash Back"

2.  How can you create a parody of the Mona Lisa avoiding recreations of parodies already in existence that speaks to society's ignorance of the historical and cultural context of the Mona Lisa?

b. Comlete the Mona Lisa Coloring Sheet from Enchanted Learning.com.  

c. Observe and decode Political cartoons. Include 2 examples in your journal.

d.  List traits of parodies.

e. Define parody in your own words. 

f.  Make up a conversation between Mona and Leonardo.

g.  Make up a rhyming acronym for the word parody.

h.  Pose like Mona Lisa and take a digital pic of yourself to include in your journal.

http://www.danbrown.com/novels/

davinci_code/excerpt.html

b.Include 2  excerpts from Art History:  A Global, Thematic Approach.

c. Color another Mona - completely different from the first one.  Coloring page from "Enchanted Learning"

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/artists/

davinci/coloring/monalisa.shtml

d.  Summarize briefly.The definition of the Mona Lisa

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Mona_Lisa

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/joconde/

b.  Parodies of the Mona Lisa

Find at least 3 goofy parodies to place in your journal.

http://www.studiolo.org/Mona/MONASV07.htm

c.  View and include.Warhol's Mona Lisa

http://www.monalisamania.com/art.htm

a.  Parody

b.  Ethics

c.  Chiaroscuro

d.  Sfumato

e.  Renaissance

f. Desensitization

g.  Traditional/

Nontraditional

h.  Coypright

i.  Infringement

j.  Composition

k.  Sarcasm

l.  Atmospheric Perspective  

a.  Michael Jackson "Man in the Mirror"

b.  Elvis Presley "I Did It My  Way"

c.  Mick Jaggar "Get Off of My Cloud"

d.  Ray Stevens "Shriner's Convention"

http://www.oil-painting-

techniques.com/

elements-of-compositional-

painting.html

Science Component

b.  Figure out three different ways to sort the vocabulary words.  Example:  alphabetical order, by prefix, by syllables, etc.

c.  Adopt-A -Vocabulary-Word and make a "Most Wanted" ad in your journal for it.Illustrate it, describe it, offer a reward for those who learn it.

d.  Build multiple connections for a vocabulary word then, share.  Place the word in a circle in the middle of your page.  Draw lines extending out from the circle.  On each line place a word that relates to the word in the circle like a word with the same root OR a word with the same number of syllables OR a word that rhymes, etc.

e.  Make student-friendly definitions for each vocabulary word.

f.  Dress up like your favorite super hero! Take a digital photo of yourself for your journal.

http://www.heroes.com/Heropgs/

herolistmain.html

b.  View, copy, paste, and describe briefly in your journal.Van Eyck's "Wedding Portrait"

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/eyck/arnolfini/

c.  View, copy, paste, and describe briefly in your journal.Leonardo's "Last Supper"

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/leonardo/lastsupp.jpg.html

d. View, copy, paste, and describe briefly in your journal.Don Quixote from "Man of La Mancha"

a.  Symbolism

b.   Irony

c.  Heroism

d.  Genius

e.    Renaissance Man

f.  Martordym

g.  Perspective

a.  Renaissance Music

b.  Theme from Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and Spiderman

Bathena/raphael/raf_ath4.html

Learn and demonstrate One-Point Perspective in your journal.

http://www.olejarz.com/

arted/perspective/

http://www.cartage.org.lb/

en/themes/Arts/drawings/

PerspectiveDrawing/

OnePointPersp/

OnePointPersp.htm

Science Component

In addition, how can you emphasize the eyes in some way to make them show as a prominent feature of your animal symbol?

http://www.seussville.com/titles/days/

b.  Read another children's story of your choice.  In your journal list the title, author, moral/theme, and art medium for each.

c.   Draw and label an example of a medicine wheel that uses animal symbols.

d.  Write definitions to the vocabulary words in your own words..

e.  Make a crossword puzzle using the vocabulary words..

f.  Write real and fake definitions for 5 vocabulary words and read them to a friend to see if they can tell which one is real and which one is fake.

g.  Write about Serendipitous encounters with animals that you have had.

b.  Find and write one or two excerpts from "Animal Speak"

c.  Summarize in one paragraph your findings about color symbolism

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/

iad/lessons/middle/color2.htm

http://www.gods-heros-myth.com/namerican/asymbols.html

b.  Aztec Bird

c.  Petroglyphs

http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/petro.html

d.  Aboriginal art

http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/

e.  Molas of Guatamalan Cuna http://www.panart.com/mola_gallery.htm

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/artists/mola/coloring/chicha.shtml

a.  Symbolism

b.  Abstraction

c.  Simplification

d.  Geometry

e.   Contrast

f.  Emphasis

g.  Focus

h.  Dominance

i.  Serendipity

a.  Native American music

b.  Aboriginal music

a.  Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDernott

b.  The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble

c.   Bring Back the Deer by Jeffrey Prusski

d.  Hurt Hawks poem by Robinson Jeffers

Describe in your own words:  The animal human connection/relationship.

http://www.swabe.org/

Briefly discuss the basic geometric shapes.

http://www.42explore.

com/geomet.htm

To view some great neon signs:Custom Neon Signs
Manufacturer of neon signs, clocks, and lights for businesses,
gamerooms, and home bars with custom design and production services
available.

 http://store.everything-neon.com/customsigns2.html

Email address: links@everythingneon.com

How can you create a neon sign on the computer using a limited selection of words to make a powerful statement about the youth of today?

b.    Draw a map of your world.  Include all machines and inventions in your life that had an impact on you or made a big impression.

c.  Write a poem about the map you drew.

d.  Draw the vocabulary words on card stock paper and display them.

e.  Write down all the neon signs you can ever remember seeing.

f.  Write down all the neon signs you have not seen but think would be really cool.

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/

aa980107.htm

a.  Ehlenberger

http://www.ehlenberger.com/contents.htm

b.  Peter Freeman

http://www.peterfreeman.co.uk/islingto.htm

c.    http://www.neonshop.com/index.html#neonshop

d.  http://www.borg.com/~hcohen/

e.  http://www.neon-das.com/neon_list.html

a.  Signs

b.  Symbols

c.  technology

d.  neon

e.  flourescent

f.  incandescent

g.  contrast

a.  Eagles "The Last Resort" (neon signs & rain/reign)

Find and read the history of neon.

library/weekly/aa980107.htm

http://inventors.about.com/

Learn about neon.  Write 5 interesting facts.

http://www.giganticsigns.

com.au/signs/neonhist.html

Learn more.  Add 5 more facts to your list.  A webquest about neon:

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science

/webquest/content/neon.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer

Summarize your findings in a paragraph.

(Graffiti Art)

b.  List 3 reasons to fight and 3 reasons to refrain from fighting.

c.  Tell how you stand on the issue of war and peace and what you believe in.

d.  View the war and peace images and make comments in your journal.

http://www.avam.org/exhibitions/warandpeace.html

e.  Listen to war and peace songs and write your own commentary.  Include the lyrics in your journal.

http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu/Studentpages/

cflores/historygraffiti.html

http://www.graffiti.org/

a.  Tag

b.  Graffiti

c.  Vandelism

d.  Outsider Art

b.  Pop music

none

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(Children's Books)

b.   Design a scavenger hunt.

c.  Make a list of the biggest and smallest things you can think of.

d.  Make a list of things that are metaphorically big and metaphorically small.

e.  Make a list of all words that mean big and all words that mean small. 

f.  We're all alike; We're all different.

b.  Chicken Little

c.  Aesop's Fable, The Lion and the Mouse

http://www.carr.org/read/caldecott62.htm

b.  Chicken Little by Harris

http://www.geocities.com/mjloundy/

c.  Aesop's Fables

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Aesop/Aesops_Fables/

b.  moral

c.  morality

d.  societal

e.  cultural

b.  The Magic Crocdile and..from Indonesia by Alice M. Terada

c.  The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola

d.  Once a Mouse... by Marcia Brown

e.  Angel Hide and Seek by Lois Elhert

f.  The Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle

g.  The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

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Science Component

Math Component

or Hate Letters

b.  Write questions and answers about this assignment.

c.  Bring in a love letter that your parents or grandparents have saved and share it with the class.

d.  Give me a prompt and I'll tell you a love story...

e.  Memorize and recite a love poem.

____

a.  for hate letters, pretend to write to Muhammad Atta

b.  review article in Art Education magazine

c.  draw targets for Osama bin Laden

b.  Lyrics of "Sound of Silence"  with special attention to, 'I have my books and my poetry to protect me.  I am shielded by my armor.'

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/indiana_robert.html

b.  Vermeer - The Love Letter

http://www.mystudios.com/vermeer/31/vermeer-love-letter.html

b.  Simile

c.  Allegory

d.  Poetry

e.  Prose

b.  Dolly Parton "I Will Always Love You"

c.  Celine Dion "It's All Coming Back"

d.  Every student bring in one song.  

Symmetry & Asymmetry

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b.  the Dr. Suess pages.

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/duchamp.html

http://www.acquavellagalleries.com/

main/artist_bio.cfm?artist_id=215

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/tinguely_jean.html

b.  View and include examples of Marcel Duchamp

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/duchamp.html

b.  random

c.  Dada

d.  conceptual art

e.  theatre of the absurd

f.  serendipity

g.  coincidence

h.  Laws of Chance

b.  Brian Eno

/grae/chaos/chaos.html

none

2.  Create a shape poem about geometric and organic shapes.

3.  How is a shape poem different from other forms of poetry?

4.  Choose your favorite shape poem from poetry.com and tranpose it into a haiku.

5.  Choose a poem by E. E. Cummings and write it in the shape you think best defines it.

6.  Write a poem about not being able to write a poem.

7.  Draw the shape of anger, passion, energy, rage, glory, sacrifice, and tragedy.

Read this lesson about shape poems.  Then, try the challenge assignment.

http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/evenski/poetry/shapepoem.html

Read this brief description of shape poems and concrete poems.  Write the same poem twice, once in a shape and the next time in meter and verse.  Which one is better?  Why?

Read the definition above.  Then, make up your own student friendly definition - a definition that is informal and in your own words - a definition that means something to you and that you can remember.

Use this text art generator to create your own text art.  Use one picture from your computer or from your camera.  Then, use one picture from the Internet.  Print out both.

http://browse.deviantart.com/digitalart/text/

Browse text art on these pages.  Choose the text art that is most dependent on the use of words.  Choose the text art that is least dependent on the use of words.

http://www.network-science.de/ascii/

Try this text art generator.  Use it for your 5 favorite words in the whole world.

http://www.youtubetextart.com/

Check out these examples of text art.  Create your own style of text art that you think would be a nice addition to a video posted on YouTube.  It can be a video that is already there and is plain OR it can be a video you know about - like a music video - that could use some improvement!

http://gawno.com/2009/05/micrography-text-art-and-typography/

Wow - Text Art has been around for a long time.  Find out how long.  Write a brief summary about the earliest text art.  How has it changed and evolved into the text art of today?  Define the term Micrography.

b.  Shape Poem

c.  Concrete Poetry

d.  Haiku

e.  Free verse

f.  51 types of poetry:

http://www.poemofquotes.com/articles/poetry_forms.php

http://thewordshop.tripod.com/forms.html

View this plethora of poetry terms.  You are not responsible for learning all these terms - just the ones listed above.  However, I wanted you to witness the breadth of styles and genres of poetry.

Have your ever wondered if a poem, quote, or story you've heard has ever been put to music.  Here's how to find out.  Use this method and find one such writing that has been put to music.

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2207/

Follow these instructions and set a poem to music.  Bring it into class to share.

Write a story and draw it in micrography OR choose your favorite children's story and illustrate it using micrography.

http://www.rumisongs.com/songs.html

Listen to Rumi's poems set to music.

http://plagiarist.com/poetry/336/

What music do you think would be right for this poem?

Did you know that there are fonts designated as Science Fonts.  Check it out.  Draw 5 of them in your journal and create a new one of your own.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-141707894.html

Naturalists used to keep extensive journals in which they wrote and drew many of their impressions.  Although some may view this as an outdated practice, others see it as a valuable tool.  What do you think?  Why?

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/09/applying-mathematics-to-web-design/

Read this and tell how math is used in design.  List at least 10 ways that math is continually used in the art of design.

http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/minitext/escher/

Read this article.  How did Escher use mathematics to create his art?  Copy and paste 3 examples of art that he used mathematics in extensively.

b.  Name configurations in nature that are tessellated.

c.  Name manmade tessellations.

d.  Reaction to Escher's prints.  Antonyms.

e.  Reaction to Islamic tilings/mosques. 

http://users.erols.com/

ziring/escher_bio.htm

a.  M. C. Escher

http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/

ggescher/ggescher-main1.html

b.  Islamic tiling 

s

a.  tessellation

http://mathforum.org/sum95/

suzanne/whattess.html

b.  translation

c.  rotation

d.  reflection

e.  tiling

f.  mosaic

g.  equilateral

http://www.2mfm.org/html

/arabic_madih.html

/museums/archive/8_dkovach

/nf-bio.html

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Study of tessellations and their properties.

http://mathforum.org/sum95

/suzanne/tess.intro.html

In this chamber, students will insert what they have learned in their words.  This chamber may contain student reflections and questions that arose as part of this experience.

How can you incorporate a magic square into a hidden image drawing?  How can the magic square relate to or tell about the drawing itself?

b.  Brainstorm a list of places to incorporate a magic square in.  What kind of scene?  What kind of place?  What are the circumstances?

c.  Write a letter to Durer asking him about his print with the magic square.

d.  Write Durer's response to your letter.

e.  Make a symbol for your initials like Durer did.  What other meaning could it have?

alejandre/magic.square.html

http://www.magic-squares.de/magic.html

a.  Albrecht Durer

b.  Lo Shu 

 http://mathforum.org/alejandre/

magic.square/loshu.html

a.  numerology

b.  odd

c.  even

d.  sum

The Circle in the Square - Music based on Magic Squares/Mathematics

http://www.cs-music.com/

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Study of tanagrams and Tibetan magic squares.  Study of some facets of numerology.

http://mathworld.wolfram.

com/MagicSquare.html

In this chamber, students will insert what they have learned in their words.  This chamber may contain student reflections and questions that arose as part of this experience.

Math Component

a.  Define "Tree of Life" in your own terms.

b.  Sketch a simple tree of life and label the limbs with things that are important parts of your tree of life.

c.  Reaction to Jesse's Tree.

d.  How does a tree of life differ from a family tree?  How are they the same?

e.  Make up an acronym for Tree.  for Life.

f.  Write down the directions for someone to read your tree.  Tell them which way to go and how to interpret the image.

g.  Make up a commercial  that advertises the importance of your family tree.

h.  Write a recipe for a fulfilling tree of life.

The Kabaluh (Tree of Life) http://paganandproud.bravepages.

com/Cabal%20the%20

tree%20of%20life.html

a.  See Reading

b. 

http://images.google.com/images?q=

tree%20of%20life&hl=en&lr=

&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

c.  Jewish Tree of Life Menorah

d.  Russian Mosaics  

http://www.abcgallery.com/I/icons/icons.html

a.  Menorah

b.  Tree of Life

c.  Kabaluh

d.  Mosaic

a.  Jewish Music

http://www.myjewishbooks.

com/freemusic.html

b.  Russian Music

http://www.barynya.

com/mp3/index.stm

c.  Tree of Life Music info:

http://www.libralion.

com/tree1.htm

Poem - Tree of Life

http://www.geocities.com/

Athens/Forum/4245/Treeof/

Poem - The Tree of My Life

http://www.skywriting.

net/inspirational/poems/

the_tree_of_my_life.html

In this chamber, students will insert what they have learned in their words.  This chamber may contain student reflections and questions that arose as part of this experience.

(The Geometry of a Conversation)

b.  Draw a line that represents anger.  excitement.  passion.  rage.  joy.

c.  Have a 3 minute conversation with someone near you.  As you are talking, draw a continuous line in your journal over and around the space of one page recording the dynamics of the conversation.

d.  Draw 5 shapes.  Tell what states of mind they could stand for.

e.  Draw 2 shapes facing each other.  Make a list of their commonalities and differences as if they were people.

f.  draw a short cartoon featuring a conversaion between you and.....

http://www.geocities.com/joan_

stark/textasciihistory.txt

a.  Text Art: 

a.  text art

b.  audio

c.  visual

d.  dialogue

e.  monologue

f.  verbiage

a.  We will listen to a different genre of music every day and draw lines that represent the beat of that music.  We will then analyze and compare our results.

http://www.google.com

/search?hl=en&lr=

&ie=UTF-8&oi=

defmore&q=

define:dialogue

Defining diaglogue.

Basic geometric shapes.

a.  Magnetic Poetry

b.  Student generated definitions

c.  Word webs

d.  Draw an alternating, sequential, progressive, and random pattern using 3 of your favorite shapes.

e.  List everywhere in your daily life that patterns are used - literal and figurative.

f.  Imagine you could talk to your hero.  Write a short dialogue.

a.  the line of a heartbeat

b.  the life lines in a palm

http://www.naturalhealthclinic.com/

online-store/scstore/images/reflex_

maps/palm_hand.jpg

a.  lifeline

b.  pattern

c.  parallel

d.  perpendicular

e.  ray

f.  intersecting

g.  overlapping

h.  contour

a.  the sound of a heartbeat

b.  tribal music - listening for pattern and repitition. 

Poem:  Patterns

http://www.americanpoems.com

/poets/amylowell/12367

Fragmented Solos, Patterns, and Textures

http://www.universityartgallery.

ucsd.edu/Pages/

CDRom%20connections/

Taaffe/Framesets/FRMPoem.html

Patterns in Nature Webquest http://www.web-and-flow.

com/members/jwilson3/

pattern/webquest.htm

See Fibonacci Numbers in Nature below in the 1-1:6 lesson e

"Wish Upon A Star"

a.  Points on a circle (odd ones connect; even ones form two overlapping shapes)

b.  Draw stars and tell what they symbolize.

c.  Write about at least one positive and one negative connotation of a star.

d.  Draw a small crossword puzzle incorporating all the vocabulary for this unit.

e.  Write a letter inviting a Jewish and an Islamic person to your classroom to talk about their star symbols.

http://paganwiccan.about.com/

library/weekly/aastarpoints.htm

Stars as Symbols according to their number of points.

a.  Six pointed Star of David

and Eight pointed Star of Islam

b.  Pentagram 

c.  Student Art made on Geometer's Sketchpad

a.  pentagon

b.  hexagon

c.  octagon

d.  decagon

http://www.guam.net/

planet/starstories.html

Geometer's Sketchpad

http://mathforum.org/

sketchpad/sketchpad.html

a.  Write your own bill of rights. You can view the Bill of Rights in the "Reading" column.

b.  Which statement in the constitution if the most powerful and why?  You can view the constitution in the "Reading" column.

c.   Write words that relate to or are synonyms of liberty and justice.

d.  Write words that are antonyms of justice and liberty.

e.  Make up 3 Word webs with any 3 vocabulary words that you choose.Think of antonyms, synonyms, homonyms, rhymes, parts of words, prefixes, suffixes, etc.

f.  Find out the etymology of 5 of the vocabulary words.  http://www.etymology.com/

a.  The Bill of Rights

http://www.law.

cornell.edu/constitution/

constitution.billofrights.html

b.  The Constitution

http://www.house.gov/

Constitution/Constitution.html

a.  Computer Quilts  Critique this quilt.  One paragraph.

Read and summarize the info.  Copy and paste an example.

http://www.guidelive.com/portal/page?_

pageid=33,97375&_dad=portal&_schema=

PORTAL&item_id=17151

Make your own quilt:

http://microrevolt.org/reblog/

archives/2006/07/screening-circl.html

a.  tessellation

b.  embed

c.  insert

d.  alternating

e.  opposite

f.  interlocking

g.  technological

h.  foreground

i.  background

j.  middle ground

k.  border

l.  accentuate

m.  diminish

Match a song to this quilt.  Why did you choose the song you did?  What is the beat of this quilt?  Describe it.

z

The Story of Betsy Ross.  Read the story and then write a  Point-Counterpoint in your journal.  In other words, talk about the story from 2 totally different perspectives - one positive and one negative, Or one patriotic and one non-patriotic.

http://www.ushistory.

org/betsy/flagtale.html

Describe  these African American Quilts in terms of rhythm, variety, proportion, balance, unity, and harmony.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~

UG97/quilt/atrads.html

Why would "quilting" be a good metaphor for scientific inquiry?  Why not?

http://www.dia.org/education/egypt-teachers/mathsci/sweeney/activity.htm

Do this lesson with paper.

Math Quilt Gallery

http://members.aol.com/mathquilt/

What is a Math Quilt?

http://members.aol.com/

mathquilt/text/whatmq.html

http://www.wou.edu/~burtonl/ca.html

Make three quilts.  Copy and paste them in your journal.

text/whatmq.htmlIn this chamber, students will insert what they have learned in their words.  This chamber may contain student reflections and questions that arose as part of this experience.

Decompression Chamber

(Music:  Brian Eno)

b.  The poisonous snake wanted to marry the nonpoisionous snake.  What issues might come up?

c.  Work within a word exercises.

d.  "Pig In a Spigot" book and follow-up.

http://www.jotto.com/pages

/STspigotprints.html

http://4books.hypermart.

net/piggy_poems.htm

e.  Biopoem (Bio for both biography and biology)

f.  Write a eulogy for lost resources.

g.  Write a dramatic monologue to the rocks of the world.

b.  Andy Goldsworthy

http://cgee.hamline.edu/see/

goldsworthy/see_an_andy.html

http://www.sculpture.org.uk/biography/

AndyGoldsworthy

c.  Ana Mendieta

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

artists/mendieta_ana.html

b.  environment

c.  impact

d.  assimilate

e.  recreate

f.  configure

g.  visualize

h.  redefine

i.  state

j.  connect

b.  "Pachebel With Ocean Sounds"

c.  "The Weight" by the Band (passing the buck)

http://www.americansouthwest

.net/slot_canyons/red_wall/

redwallrock_l.html

Find 3 other photographs with interesting rock patterns.

Spirals in Nature

http://www.space.com/science

astronomy/perfect_spirals_030917.html

Spirals in science, art, and nature

http://library.thinkquest.org/18222/

root/story1/page2/page2.htm

http://mathworld.wolfram.

com/LogarithmicSpiral.html

Mathematical Construction of Spirals

http://www.blueberry-brain.org/

syndyn/spirals/sprlmath.htm

b.  Define chlorophyll and polychromatic.

c.  Draw 4 thumbnails in your journal.  Arrange numerous leaflike shapes in each.  Make two of the designs symmetrical and two asymmetrical.  Are you drawn to the symmetrical or the asymmetrical ?  Why?

d.  Draw around your hand.   Draw around a leaf.  Write inside the leaf how your hand is like the leaf.  Write inside the hand how the leaf is like your hand.

e.  Look at 3 concentric designs.  What are the attributes of a concentric design?  List them and explain.

codex_morpheu/geometry.html

b.  Leaf Prints

b.  intrinsic

c.  cyclical

d.  radiate

e.  radius

f.  circular

http://songs-with-music.

freeservers.com/rounds.html

http://www.earthmatrix.

com/foursuns/xtract24.htm

http://www.wetcanvas.com/

ArtSchool/Hagan/proportion.jpg

b.   Art Synectics - 

http://www.swsd42.sk.ca/prof/artsyn.htm

c.   Design Synectics - http://members.optusnet.com.au/~

charles57/Creative/Techniques/synectics.htm

d.  Aesthetics - The making of beauty.  What is beauty?  Define it.

e.    Iluustrate proportion by drawing something in-proportion and something out-of-proportion.

f.  Watch "Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land" and list examples of the golden proportion in nature.

g.  Watch "The Shape of Things" and list examples of proportion in nature.

h.  Make a slide for a class powerpoint that illustrates and explains one example of the golden section in nature.

Art and Architecture

http://ccins.camosun.bc.ca/~

jbritton/goldslide/jbgoldslide.htm

b.   Sunflowers

c.  Pine Cones

b.  golden section

c.  nautilus

d.  Parthenon

e.  spiral

f.  proportional

g.  growth rate

h.  growth pattern

http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/

math/biograph/biopytha.htm

Fibonacci Numbers In Nature http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk

/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/

fibnat.html#petals

How the pentagon relates to the golden section - 

http://www.goldenmeangauge

.co.uk/pentagon.htm

b.  Name 5 ways that wood is used and/or misused in society.

c.  List the qualities of wood:  how it acts, how it feels, how it smells, etc.

d.  Rainforest facts.  http://www.cleversley.

com/rainforeststats.htm  

and your reaction.

e.  Types of wood:  

http://il.essortment.com/

wherecanfindi_rqep.htm

http://www.woodthatworks.com/

b.  Stick sculpture

http://www.wausaudailyherald.

com/galleries/sculpture/

http://www.shreveporttimes.

com/photogalleries/stick_sculpture

/FrameSet.shtml

a.  integration

b.  enhancement

c.  interdependent

d.  kinetic

e.  multicultural

f.  sculptural

g.  environmental

h.  social consciousness

http://www-formal.stanford.

edu/jmc/progress/forest.html

"Atlas of Shapes"

(The Triangle)

a.  Things going in the same direction group together.

b.  Things of the same color group together.

c.  Things of the same size group together.

d.  Things of the same shape group together.

b.  Look around the room.  List examples of Gestalt in the room.

c.  Think about the world at large.  List examples of Gestalt in the world.

d.  Define Gestalt in your own words.

e.  Find three other German words that describe a concept better than an English word.

http://dictionaries.travlang.

com/GermanEnglish/

f.  Make up a slogan for the power of gestalt.

http://daphne.palomar.edu

/design/gestalt.html

b.  Geometric Designs

http://www.k-inc.com/~

patony1/page18.htm

b.  directional

c.  grouping

d.  overlapping

e.  proximity

f.  continuation

g.  central

h.  peripheral

i.  contrast

b.  music in which instrument groups are clustered

http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian

/coldwater/234/gestalt.htm

b.  List the basic shapes and the basic colors.

c.  Make four minimalist drawings using line only and circle the one you find most interesting.

d.  View three works by minimalist artists and tell what you think the artist wanted us to focus on.

e.  Do you think there is meaning in minimalist work?  Why or why not?  Do you think it takes intellectual and artistic skill to create a minimalist work of art?  Why or why not?

f.  Draw an un-imaginative coloring page.

http://www.artcyclopedia.

com/history/minimalism.html

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

artists/andre_carl.html

b.  characteristics

c.  simplification

d.  reduction

e.  minimalization

f.  movement/stillness

g.  directionality

h.  elemental

i.  economize

b.  monotone sounds

http://jameshudnall.com/write2.htm

http://www.corrosionsource.

com/handbook/periodic/

Elemental Math Game

http://education.jlab.org/

elementmath/index.html

"RiverReach"

b.  Draw and color a spiral design.

c.  Explain the ecology of your back yard.

d.  View the ecology flag then, make up your own ecology symbol.

http://www.allstates-flag.

com/fotw/flags/us_eco.html#peac

e.  Write an editorial for the local paper on the importance of preserving and maintaining our New River.

f.  Write a tribute to a river you care about.

http://www.ecology.com/

http://www.robertsmithson.

com/earthworks/spiral_jetty.htm

b.  ecology

c.  environmental

d.  impermanent

e.  native

f.  habitat

g.  harmony

h.  endangered

i.  threatened

b.  "Study War No More"

http://www.gardendigest.

com/ecology.htm

a.  Read these ecology 

poems and quotes.

b.  Bullfrogs, a poem by David Allen Evans

org/global/issues/e/ecobal/

Read about ecological balance.

http://www.lenntech.com/

Water-Quantity-FAQ.htm

(The gallon jug exercise including water usage by different countries)

b.  List all the organic and geometric shapes that you can visualize in the gourd.

c.  Make an acronym for gourd that speaks about shape.

d.  List all the words for shape and form that you can think of.

e.  Draw your gourd design.  Label the central and peripheral areas of the design.

f.  Place a secret object in your gourd.  Don't tell anyone what it is.    

http://www.ehow.com/how_

3886_dry-gourds.html

http://www.gourd-art.com/

album_2/pages/a019_png.htm

b.  juxtaposition

c.  organic

d.  geometric

e.  continuity

f.  unity

g.  peripheral

h.  central

b.  shakers

c.  tambourines

d.  rain sticks

Folk art gourds from the Andes:

http://www.novica.com/region/

andes/gourd_art/index.

cfm?rID=4&scid=61

Definition for folk art:

http://www.google.com/

search?hl=en&lr=&ie=

UTF-8&oi=defmore&q=

define:Folk+Art+

(+Naive%3B+Primitive+)

Definition for fine art:

http://www.wordiq.

com/definition/Fine_arts

http://www.bloomsnursery-

marthasgourds.com/gourds/drying.htm

 or NOT?

Define the words below:

functional, nonfunctional, traditional, nontraditional, found objects, appropriation, multiculturalism, characteristics, antique, vessel, spout, handle, lid, portable

How can you create a work of art based on the concept "teapot" including a lid, a handle, and and spout that is functional or nonfunctional?

How can you create a work of art based on the concept "teapot" by assembling found objects including appendages that resemble a lid, a handle, and a spout?

http://www.wejarchitecture.com/teapot.html

What will the Sparta Teapot Museum be like?  Go here and find out.

http://www.mountaintimes.com/mtweekly/2004/1223/teapot.php3

What's in a teapot museum?  Read and summarize this article.

http://www.alleghanynews.com/archive/116_22/art132.php

How much $ is involved in a project like this?  Read and find out.

http://www.spartateapotmuseum.org/index.html

The teapot museum's website.  What can you find out?

www.penland.org

Where do I go to learn fine craft?  Check out Penland.  It's right here in NC.

1.  Define "teapot."

2.  Define functional and nonfunctional.

3.  Sketch 3 teapots that are all very different.  Give them names according to their style.

4.  Write a rhyme about teapots.

5.  Make up an acronym for "teapot."

6.  If you could have any teapot in your home, what would it look like.  Write and sketch your answer.

2.  What traditions in history could have prompted people to come up with the idea of teapots?  

3.  How is a handle like a spout?  How is it different?

4.  Name five things you think of when you say the word "teapot."  Why do you make those associations?

5.  Is a teapot strong or weak?  feminine or masculine?  indoorsy or outdoorsy?  close to Earth of close to Heaven?  artificial or natural?  childish or mature?  ignorant or wise?  You must choose one answer for each and defend it.

http://www.gotheborg.com/

Find some other vessels in Chinese pottery that were functional.  Describe them.  How are they similar to teapots?

www.dictionary.com

Define the term "vessel."  Find three other "vessels" that differ  GREATLY from a teapot.  Provide the definition and the examples.  Provide brief info on the examples.

Also, find synonyms for both "teapot" and "vessel."

http://www.discovercraftnc.org/

Did you know that our governor designated last year and this year as Year of the Craft?  Find out about his proclamation and this initiative.

http://www.mudfire.com/teapots-a-go-go-2.htm

Find 3 teapot artists to research on this page.  You may not find info on this page, just an example of their work.  You will have to look on the net to find information about them.  Dedicate 1/2 page to each teapot artist.

http://www.newarkmuseum.org/greatpots/fig117.htm

View Richard Notkin's curbside teapot.  Copy and paste it in your journal.  Find at least one other Notkin pot.

http://www.teapots.net/

Read and summarize the history of teapots.

http://www.rdandt.com/HISTORY/HISTORY.HTM

There are numerous links on this page.  Choose a minimum of three to explore.  I highly recommend the Golden Age of Teapot Making.

http://www.theartoftea.com/

Check out this fabulous site by the Camms themselves.  Summarize the info you glean.

Culminating Experience:  M.A.L.T. S.hake (Multigenre Art Literature Technology Science Project)

Attra and her gods and goddesses will dramatic enact their story in costume.

Students will devise and implement the production of a multigenre project that illustrates a cumulative response to the above projects.