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Curriculum and class materials for Music, Art History, History,

Material Type: Alternate Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Full Course, Interactive, Learning Task, Lesson Plan, Primary Source, Rubric/Scoring Guide, Self Assessment, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study

Selected Topics in Architecture: Architecture from 1750 to the Present, Fall 2004

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General study of modern architecture as a response to important technological, cultural, environmental, aesthetic, and theoretical challenges after the European Enlightenment. Focus on the theoretical, historiographic, and design approaches to architectural problems encountered in the age of industrial and post-industrial expansion across the globe, with specific attention to the dominance of European modernism in setting the agenda for the discourse of a global modernity at large. Explores modern architectural history through thematic exposition rather than as simple chronological succession of ideas.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Dutta, Arindam

Introduction to Sculpture, Fall 2003

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Introduces fundamental issues in sculpture such as site, context, process, psychology and aesthetics of the object, and the object's relation to the body. Explores issues of interpretation and audience interaction. Introduces a variety of materials and techniques including wood, plaster, and metal (welding and forging). This class introduces fundamental issues in sculpture such as site, context, process, psychology and aesthetics of the object, and the object's relation to the body. During the semester Introduction to Sculpture will explore issues of interpretation and audience interaction. As a significant component to this class introductions to a variety of materials and techniques both traditional (wood, metal, plaster) as well as non-traditional (fabric, latex, found objects, rubber, etc.) will be emphasized.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Sethi, Sanjit

Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop, Fall 2004

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Inspired by the work of the architect Antoni Gaudi, this research workshop will explore three-dimensional problems in the static equilibrium of structural systems. Through an interdisciplinary collaboration between computer science and architecture, we will develop design tools for determining the form of three-dimensional structural systems under a variety of loads. The goal of the workshop is to develop real-time design and analysis tools which will be useful to architects and engineers in the form-finding of efficient three-dimensional structural systems.

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Demaine, Erik, Ochsendorf, John Allen

Introduction to Design Inquiry, Fall 2004

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Explores, through exercises, lectures, and discussion, the nature and exercise of architectural intelligence; investigates design as processes located in individuals and in groups; seeks to understand design as argument, as claims for which reasons can be adduced, as logic in which there are explicit sets of elements and relations among them, and as experiment in which design and its results are themselves used to inform future designs or simply to inquire. Subject aims to open avenues for further research.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Knight, Terry W.

Art Appreciation

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This course is particularly focused on helping you develop visual literacy skills, but all the college courses you take are to some degree about information literacy. Visual literacy is really just a specialized type of information literacy. The skills you acquire in this course will help you become an effective researcher in other fields, as well.

Material Type: Full Course, Textbook

Teaching Critical Thinking through Art

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For over a decade, the National Gallery of Art has been exploring art’s potential to inspire and strengthen critical thinking in teachers and students. Using Artful Thinking routines with original works of art in the museum, and with art reproductions in classrooms, we have empowered all kinds of teachers to transform how they teach. For this one-of-a-kind course, we've used our experience with Artful Thinking to build a unique online learning environment. Inspired by Artful Thinking's inquiry method, you will have the opportunity to look, reason, and wonder about works of art, just as the routines ask students to do. To make this possible, we've integrated an innovative tool, called iiiF, that allows you to zoom in and explore each high-definition work of art from the National Gallery of Art's free, online database. You'll also watch real lessons unfold with teachers and students in our original videos. And you'll receive everything you need to put the routines into practice with your students.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Beth Dobberstein

The Manufacturing of a Seated Design

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This is a unit about the design and manufacturing of a chair consisting of three lessons. First, students will research the stylistic trends throughout history by exploring a slide show presentation and viewing the Art of Seating from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, Florida. Students will choose a chair from this collection to use as inspiration. They will analyze the style, elements and principles of the design and participate in a discussion on form vs. function. A one-page written paper will be due at the end of this lesson. Next, students will be tasked with creating an original 2-dimensional design of a chair. Students will have the option of drawing or using Google Sketchup for the design process which will extend over 2 days. The students will continue to be led in discussions related to innovation, form vs. function and other vocabulary will be introduced. Once the designs have been completed, students will write an artist statement for their display. Lastly, students will learn about the KI company in Bonduel Wisconsin and the process of Lean Manufacturing, particularly cost effectiveness, standard work instructions and quality checks/internal audit. Students will be assigned to work in groups; they will choose one chair design from a group member. Student groups will create a list of materials needed to create the chair and will come up with a list of instructions on how to assemble it. Students will assign a cost value to each material used in the chair design and how much of the material is used. They will figure out the amount of time and resources it would take to create the chair such as wage, manpower, and tools needed. Students will create a chart with this information as they discover what it takes to go from the process of creating design to the manufacturing of the product. Students will then fill out an “internal Audit/quality check” form as their self assessment and reflection of their work and participation in this unit.

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Unit of Study

Author: Danielle Piparo Morris

Text Graffiti: Previewing Challenging Topics

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Requiring students to preview a topic prior to discussing a difficult text or challenging topic aids student comprehension and allows for deeper discussion. In this activity, 8th grade students respond in writing to quotes from a book independently and then rotate from one quote to another responding to additional quotes or student responses.Students share their thoughts and predictions during a whole class discussion using quotes to support their thinking. Individual reflection closes the lesson and prepares students for the next days reading by asking students to predict the theme or storyline based on the quotes and class discussion.

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Botany and Art: Their Roles in Conservation

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Students are introduced to the work of botanists and botanical illustrators, and specifically to their race to make records of endangered plant species around the world. Students examine illustrations, photographs, and dried specimens of endangered plants and consider the conservation value of an illustration over a photographic image. In a second session, students try their own hands at botanical illustration and follow the methods of a Smithsonian staff illustrator. Pencils, markers, tracing paper, and access to a photocopier are required.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lecture, Lesson Plan

Author: Smithsonian Institutions

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