Keith Haring People Dancing

This is a Keith Haring lesson I found off of another art teacher’s blog. I can’t remember who. I ended changing the materials that were used. They mix colors by using oil pastels. I hear oohs, and ahhs from this. This lesson ties in mixing primary colors to make secondary colors. Keith Haring was inspired by hip hop music. We listen and dance away to some hip hop violin. The students think about their families and draw them dancing.

I also made a youtube video that students would watch and dance to in class.
Lots of fun!
Keith Haring Hip Hop

Kinetic Art for Elementary Workshop

This is from a workshop I did at the Georgia Art Educators Conference in 2013. That was a while ago. It got a lot of positive responses and relates art to science.

Teacher Example

Student Example (3rd Grade)

To download a word doc that contains the lesson and GA visual art standards click here. Kinetic Art Lesson. Special note on this lesson. You really need to make sure the popsicle stick at the end where you wind it up is sticking out from the wheel. That’s what kicks around and creates the movement. Make sure you tape your wheels to the axle. Make adjustments as needed to get your sculpture moving. Students can even change the shape of the wheels to see what happens.

Watch the Beakman’s World Season 1 Episode 26 on netflix. In that episode that’s where the project came from.

Kinetic Artist that we looked at. I encourage you to find your own kinetic artist.

Theo Jansen Strandbeest

Here is his website Strandbeest.

Video of the artist work below or visit Youtube.

http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/HSKyHmjyrkA&source=uds

Leonardo Da Vinci Automobile

Here’s the video from youtube. The Institute for History of Science in Florence, Italy created their own. Watch it below or view on Youtube.

http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/a2qeZrejZp0&source=uds

Al Garnto, Kinetic Sculptor from Georgia. He resides in Blairesville, GA. View the video below or view on Youtube.

http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/vt0WE6pn4IA&source=uds

I apologize if I’ve left anything off. My blog has more of the info than the handout I provided. I appreciate you bearing with me. If you have an kinetic art lesson ideas please feel free to comment. Thanks for attending!

Additional sites that have kinetic projects:

Steve Spangler Sick Science Channel

Gadgets & Kinetic Sculpture

PBS Design Squad Kinetic Sculpture Lesson

Old Blog Post Transfer

Screen Shot 2019-01-01 at 11.35.45 AM Prior to this blog I had a blogger site. I’m sad to say I moved away from it because I tend to prefer using wordpress.com. WordPress I like that I can auto publish to my Facebook page. The interface for using wordpress is easier. That just me. I’m going to migrate my more popular lessons to this new site. The easy why I’m finding to do this is switch to the HTML view in a post from Blogger. Copy & Paste it into WordPress in HTML view. Easy peasy.