Category: art

• 02/17/2011

  I really hope my son’s future teachers assign him lots of worksheets

  /sarcasm’d Seriously though, this is my just-turned-3 year-old son and he (and thousands like him) are just a couple years away from hitting the public school system like freight trains. Are our schools ready for them? P.S. Here’s his finished masterpiece.

• 02/11/2011

  Post-it Notes animation

  Artifact This video of some amazing stop-motion animation using post-its dubbed ‘Deadline.’ Guiding Questions How long did this take? What’s the time-length of each frame? How many post-its were used? How many of each color? Something about coordinate transformation? Can we do this? Suggested Activities Have students use coordinate geometry and transformations to make their…

• 02/08/2011

  A single robot-made rainbow ; what does it mean?

  Artifact This amazing video of a rainbow-painting robot. (h/t: Science Friday.) Guiding Questions How much paint did this guy need of each color? What’s the radius of the rainbow? or, What’s the length of the arm that moves in a semi-circle that paints the rainbow? Which color will run out soonest? And how much sooner?…