ART IN SCIENCE, SCIENCE IN ART

INSTRUCTOR(S): Jaime Malwitz, Science Education Consultant
GRADE LEVEL: K-12

This course will give you and your students the opportunity to let both sides of your brain become active as your explore the science behind a wide variety of art offerings - no artistic talent required!  This cross-curricular event will explain the science behind many types of arts and crafts and create links into the areas of math, social studies, reading, and language arts.

Teachers of science, all regular education teachers, art teachers, and teachers of special needs students will find activities to motivate and excite their students  Science and math will help us to understand the following art projects that each participant will make and take home:

	The effects of alcohol on acrylics while doing multi-media, abstract paints on yupo film;
	The properties of plastics as you sculpt and make "pop" art desserts;
	Effects on the eye caused by "op" art pictures created in class;
	Chromatography applied to the dying of T-shirts;
	Bending of light rays through hand-built polariscopes;
	Physical and chemical changed in the making of paper;
	Creative writing and stamping on newly made paper;
	Iris folding for use in cards, science folders, and math and...

...many, many more hands-on activities!