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Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Linear Perspective

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on linear perspective and it explores this a work by Camille Pissarro. The animation shows vanishing point, linear...
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Museum of Science

Boston Museum of Science: Exploring Linear Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores linear perspective and how it was first used in the early 15th-Century. Discusses horizon line, vanishing point, and orthogonal lines. The site provides an example.
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Palomar Community College District

Design Notes: Space Part 2: Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
A good explanation of atmospheric and linear perspective, including diagrams.
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Other

Math Across the Curriculum: Art and Linear Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website contains an easy to understand explanation of vanishing point and other concepts of linear perspective.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Perspective Drawing Inspired by n.c. Wyeth [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
For this lesson, students will generate unique fantasy drawings that utilize perspective and create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. Deriving inspiration from the American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth's The...
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Wet Canvas: Aerial Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
A demonstration of how aerial perspective is achieved.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Perspective Drawing

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses vanishing point and perspective drawing, including tips on drawing from various perspectives.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Aerial Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
A definition of aerial perspective with examples and links to paintings that use the technique.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Linear Pairs

For Students 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students explore the concept of linear pairs by navigating through the interactive learning module and then answering questions that go along with the module.
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California State University

A Bird's Eye View

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
With this lesson plan students will create a chalk drawing of an outdoor scene from a bird's-eye view. Lesson includes links to perspective drawing techniques and examples.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: The Northern Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
Centered in Germany and the Netherlands during 1400 and 1500s, the northern European tradition of Gothic Art was greatly affected by the technical and philosophical advancements of the Renaissance in Italy. While less concerned with...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Challenge Question: "Walk the Line"

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners are introduced to the "Walk the Line" challenge question. They are asked to write journal responses to the question and brainstorm what information they need to answer the question. Ideas are shared with the class (or in pairs...
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Traveling Above, Looking Below

For Students 3rd - 5th
Try drawing something from a bird's-eye view and change your usual perspective of that object. Relates this drawing-from-above concept to artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
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University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Brook Taylor

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of St. Andrews page offers an excellent biography on Brook Taylor, an English mathematician and physicist (1685-1731.) Discusses his life and his contributions to these academic fields.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 3: Technical Aspects of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
In this third unit of a course on Art Appreciation, students learn how to describe the technical aspects of an artist's work by discussing elements of art and principles of design. They also look at the stylistic qualities of an artist's...
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science: Welcome to Exploring Leonardo

For Students 9th - 10th
At this resource, learn all about Leonardo da Vinci. Visuals of his work, ideas for activities and investigation. Additional links and lesson ideas for teachers.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Choosing an Appropriate Growth Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The goal of this task is to examine some population data for large cities from a modeling perspective. Students are asked to decide if the population data can be accurately modeled by a linear, quadratic, and/or exponential function, and...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ancient Egypt, an Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
Egyptian imagery, concepts, and perspectives are found everywhere; you will find them in architectural forms, on money, and in our day to day lives. This introduction will provide you with the primary filters to view and understand...
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Web Gallery of Art

Web Gallery of Art: Uccello, Paolo

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource contains several links to works by Paolo Uccello. By clicking on the links, the works can be accessed along with a biography on Uccello himself.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Masaccio, Tribute Money (Quiz)

For Students 9th - 10th
How much do you know about Tribute Money by Masaccio? Find out by answering this four-question multiple-choice and true/false quiz. Check each answer before moving to the next question. Hints are available for each question.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Masaccio, Holy Trinity (Quiz)

For Students 9th - 10th
How much do you know about Holy Trinity by Masaccio? Find out by answering this four-question multiple-choice and true/false quiz. Check each answer before moving to the next question. Hints are available for each question.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Vanishing Point Definition

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a definition of the word, vanishing point.
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Other

University of Edinburgh: Glossary of Introductory Computer Graphics Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
This website, from the University of Edinburgh, provides a lengthy glossary of computer graphics terms written by Olin Lathrop, author of "The Way Computer Graphics Work". This site provides simple definitions of basic terms; no graphics...

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