Science

The Kennedy Center ARTSEDGE:
Students will learn about how weather influences culture, daily life, and mood by examining paintings depicting different types of weather.
Grade: K-4 Arts 
Subject: Visual Arts 
In this lesson, students experience rain through several activities, experiments, reading, and performing.
Grade: K-4
Arts Subject: Music, Visual Arts
Other Subject: Geography 
After exploring a virtual ocean with their five senses, students capture the sensory experience by writing haiku, bringing science and creative writing together as one.
Grade: K-4
Arts Subject: Visual Arts, Literary Arts
Other Subject: English 
Students grow both sunflowers and their knowledge of science and art. After exploring the work of Van Gogh and other artists, students create their own artwork.
Grade: K-4
Arts Subject: Visual Arts, Literary Arts
Other Subject: Math

Lesson: Who Has Seen the Wind?

In this lesson students are introduced to and encouraged to explore characteristics of the wind through poetry and van Gogh’s paintings.
Grade: K-4
Arts Subject: Theater, Visual ArtsViewing mobiles created by sculptor Alexander Calder, students learn about the function and form of levers. They build mobiles, experiment with balancing levers, and equilibrium. 
Grade: 5-8 
Other Subject: Math
Students explore the solar system through experimentation of mobile design in the style of Alexander Calder.
Grade: 5-8
Arts Subject: Visual Arts
Other Subject: Math 
In this lesson, students take on the roles of Lewis and Clark, as they explore the original journals and create journals of their own.
Grade: 5-8
Arts Subject: Visual Arts, Literary Arts
Other Subject: Language Arts

Lesson: Trees In Nature And Art

Students will explore the use of trees in the arts (as paintings and poetry), understand basic science involved in forestry, and integrate tree arts and science in a final project.
Grade: 5-8
Arts Subject: Literary Arts, Visual Arts 
Through online learning tools and the creation of shadow puppets and plays, students will learn how light interacts with matter.
Grade: 5-8
Arts Subject: Visual Arts, Theater
Other Subject: Language Arts
A wide variety of science concepts can be explored through the study of fireworks.
Grade: 9-12
Arts Subject: Visual Arts, Media Arts

Lesson: Patterns Across Cultures: The Fibonacci Sequence in Visual Art

The Fibonacci Sequence manifests in nature and visual arts.
Grade: 9-12
Arts Subject: Visual Arts, Media Arts
Other Subject: Math, History 
Studying the work of artist Cai Guo-Qiang, students will understand the technological, logistical, and artistic factors for performance-oriented works.
Grade: 9-12
Arts Subject: Visual Arts, Media Arts
Other Subject: Language Arts

Lesson: Landscape Painting

Using James Palmersheim's Silver Creek's November II as a starting point, students will create their own landscape paintings.
Grade: 9-12
Arts Subject: Visual Arts
Grade: 5-8

National Gallery of Art
 Art & Ecology
Online Interactive Unit
Artists are often particularly keen observers and precise recorders of the physical conditions of the natural world. As a result, paintings can be good resources for learning about ecology. Teachers can use this lesson to examine with students the interrelationship of geography, natural resources, and climate and their effects on daily life. It also addresses the roles students can take in caring for the environment. Activities include art inquiry, map skills, vocabulary, A Place I’d Like to Be, Climates Around the World. This program is also available as a printed booklet with color reproductions. It may be borrowed free-of-charge from NGA Loan Programs.
Includes Overview/Art Discussion/Student Activities/Printable Worksheets/Related Resources/Glossary
Grade: Middle
Activity: Drawing, Painting
Theme: Environment, Social
Online: Interactive
This activity illustrates the process of mitosis, or cell division, in yeast. Cells carry on the many functions needed to sustain life. The most important is the ability to reproduce.
Grade: 5-8
Arts Subject: Visual Arts
Other Subject: Math, Science
By acquiring knowledge of historical and cultural qualities unique to this particular art form, students can gain an understanding of how Gyotaku reflects a part of Japanese history
Grade: 5-8
Arts Subject: Visual Arts 
In this lesson, students use calculation to predict the number of cells that result from a series of cell divisions. They then graph the results to represent their findings.
Grade: 5-8
Arts Subject:Visual Arts
Other Subject: Math
 

Van Gogh
Online Teaching Unit
Teaching program on the work of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Activities include: geography, drawing exercise, comparing landscapes with word list/write a poem based on list, environment, verbal and visual matching, color impact, art and letter writing, self-portrait, debate, art history project. This program is also available as a printed booklet with 20 slides. It may be borrowed free-of-charge from NGA Loan Programs. 
Includes Commentary/Activities/Study Sources/Pronunciation Guide
Grade Level: Middle/High
Activities: Drawing, Self-portrait, Multimedia
Style: Impressionism
Other Subjects: Language Arts
Online: Interactive


Shaw Memorial: Feature
Online Art Unit
In-depth study of the Memorial to the Massachusetts 54th Regiment (an African-American Civil War troop).Activities includes: 2 lesson plans for grades 3-8 (Personal Memories, Public Memories), 3 lesson plans for 9-12 (An Inspirational Monument, Saint Gaudens, the Shaw Memorial, Art Historians, and the Critics, and A Primary Source Document Activity.)
Includes Introduction/Artist/History/Memorial/ Exhibition/Resources
Grade: elementary/middle/high
Medium: drawing
Theme: Social/History

Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
Online Art Information
Exhibition feature (2006). Explore the most exciting phase of the Renaissance in Venice, when Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, and Titian, among others, were all working side by side. Includes zoom option for close study and technical conservation photographs.
Includes Introduction/Historical Climate/Sacred Images and Stories/Pictures of Women/Allegories and Mythologies/ Portraits of Men/Technical Photographs/Artists’ Materials
Grade: middle/high
Theme: World history, mythology, Renaissance
Artist: Bellini, Giorgione, Titian
Other Subjects: History

Pablo Picasso: The Tragedy
Online Art Information
In-depth study of Pablo Picasso painting The Tragedy and discussion of related conservation issues. Information focuses on the metamorphosis of a painting.
Grade: middle/high
Theme: Science/Conservation
Artist: Picasso

Henry Moore
Online Art Information
Exhibition brochure on Henry Moore, a modern English sculptor. Information includes section on conservation and maintenance of outdoor sculptural pieces, such as preventing dirt, pollen and pollutants from leading to corrosion. 
Grade: middle/high
Theme: Art conservation, Minimalism, Modern Art, Sculpture
Artist: Henry Moore

Alexander Calder
Online Art Information
In-depth look at Alexander Calder’s stabiles, large-scale fixed sculptures.
Grade: middle/high
Theme: Mobiles, Modern Art
Artist: Alexander Calder

Edward Steichen
Online Art Information
In-depth study of early 20th-century photographs and paintings of American Edward Steichen. The natural world became the primary subjects of Steichen's paintings and photographs. He also made an intense study of the mathematical ratios of plant growth, teaching himself plane and solid geometry and reading complicated theory in his quest to discover nature's "golden mean."
Includes extensive information about the artist, his paintings and photography.
Grade: middle/high
Theme: Photography, Environment
Artist: Edward Steichen

Julia Margaret Cameron
Online Art InformationIn-depth study of The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty by 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Extensive details of photographic process used by the artist.
Includes Images/Cameron’s Techniques/Biography
Grade: middle/high
Theme: Photography
Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron

 Edouard Manet: The Dead Toreador and The Bull Fight
Online Art Information
In-depth study of two paintings of bull fights by 19th-century French realist painter Edouard Manet, including technical observations. Through the use of x-radiography and intensive historical and scientific analysis of the two paintings, conservators and art historians collaborated to provide evidence of the fascinating connection between these seemingly unrelated works of art.
Grade: middle/high
Theme: Art Conservation
Artist: Edouard Manet

From Botany to Bouquets: Flowers in Northern Art
Online Art Information
Exhibition brochure on Dutch and Flemish botanical art from the 16th through 18th centuries and information about role of botany in art and society.
Grade: middle/high
Theme: Environment

Thomas Moran
Online Art Information
In-depth study of Thomas Moran’s 19th-century American landscape paintings. Long celebrated as the premier painter of Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, Thomas Moran produced a remarkably varied body of work during a career that spanned more than sixty years.
Grade: middle/high
Theme: American History, Environment
Artist: Thomas Moran
Other Subjects: History
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