ART IN SCIENCE, SCIENCE IN ART

INSTRUCTORS: Jaime & Kathy Malwitz, Science Education Consultant & Education Consultant
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
CREDIT: 2 or 3
 

This course will allow you to provide students with the opportunity to let both sides of the brain become active.  You explore the science behind a wide variety of art offerings - not 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, 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 paintings on yupo film;
	The properties of plastics as we sculpt and make "pop art" desserts;
	Effects on the eye cased 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 changes in the making of paper;
	Creative writing and stamping on newly made paper
	Math patterns and real world connections in beaded bracelets, and many, many more!

All teachers at all grade levels are invited to participate!

Special emphasis on Wisconsin Academic Standards of Science will include: Science connections, The Nature of Science, Science Inquiry, Physical Science, Science Applications, Science in Social and Personal Perspectives.

Special emphasis on Wisconsin Academic Standards of Mathematics will include: Mathematical Processes, Number Operations and Relationship, Geometry, and Measurement.