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Students create plaster and wire mobiles/sculptures. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 8th
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Students learn the vocabulary of contemporary sculpture and distinguish between abstract and realistic sculpture, mobile and stabile, biomorphic and geometric. They write equations using Calder's mobiles Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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Students design and build original mobiles and consider how the forces of gravity and convection air currents affect the finished piece. They explore how an understanding of balancing forces is important in both art and engineering design. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students investigate Alexander Calder and use primary source evidence to support analysis and conclusions. This lesson is provided by the Library of Congress and requires a student webquest. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students investigate the sculptures of Alexander Calder. They view and analyze pictures of various types of sculptures, discuss how mobiles are a type of sculpture, listen to the book "Roarr: Calder's Circus," and create a class mobile from found objects. Full Review »
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- 6th - 9th
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Students participate in a lesson that covers the concepts of solving equations and inequalities. To master the concept they must demonstrate visually and verbally how both sides of an equation must be balanced. They construct a balanced mobile to illustrate the understanding of balance. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 6th
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Students examine the life and work of Alexander Calder. Using new vocabulary words, they relate them to his projects and invent an abstract paper animal and make it. They arrange their animals into a mobile and discover the need for it to balance. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students, through lecture, discover the work of artist, Alexander Caulder. They view pictures of Caulder's work and then identify his work from a variety of art pictures. They make a mobile in the Caulder style, using one of the four seasons as a theme. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students explore the concepts of rotational equilibrium. They examine the history Alexander Calder and his mobiles. Students solve simple algebraic equations. They predict, draw conclusions, graph equations and examine the rotational equilibrium of their graphs. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students create a wire fish sculpture in the style of Alexander Calder's work. They identify and interpret the work of Alexander Calder and apply that to their own work. Students also answer questions asked to show some understanding of Calder and his work. Finally, they state what they think about their classmate's projects and their own as well. Full Review »
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