tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61011781650227001262024-02-21T01:51:34.697-08:00CultureStreet: Learning ExtrasMore free learning resources for culturestreet teachers pages.Roger Langhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02794314618646478388noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101178165022700126.post-15437585234066945582015-06-09T07:37:00.000-07:002015-06-09T09:23:18.356-07:00About This Blog<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This blog is for additional notes and films to support the learning resources made for <b><a href="http://www.culturestreet.org.uk/">CultureStreet's</a> <a href="http://www.culturestreet.org.uk/channel_home.php?channel=museum">Museums Channel</a></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For each museum featured on CultureStreet, Keith Alexander and the artists@work team took groups of children to a museum and let them select the exhibit they found the most intriguing.They then filmed the pupils interviewing curators about the chosen artifact. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Objects chosen by the children included a clockwork toy horse, a Victorian hand-held film viewer and a stuffed midget cow!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">The project has been one of the best experiences of my teaching career - and not just because it didn't involve a single break dut<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">y...</span></span></div>
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Roger Langhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02794314618646478388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101178165022700126.post-80760786262700947612015-06-08T08:40:00.000-07:002015-06-09T09:22:48.067-07:00Deconstructing the Great Wave<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.culturestreet.org.uk/teachers/throughseaandair/index.php">The KS3 Art & Design materials</a></b> resulting from the students' choice of Hemy's 'Through Sea and Air' at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, present the challenge of analysing the significant differences and similarities between this oil painting and Katsushika Hokusai's famous woodblock print 'Great Wave off Kanagawa'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In making <b><a href="http://www.culturestreet.org.uk/teachers/throughseaandair/video1.mp4">the short film for the resource</a></b>, I used Photoshop Elements magic wand and layers to deconstruct the woodblock print into its constituent colours. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This additional film made since the resource explains how. The process is straightforward and has been tried successfully with pupils in upper KS2 and above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As well as aiding understanding of the components of any solid block printing technique, it can also be used can be used in conjunction with Photoshop's ability to change or substitute colours, to experiment with the effect of reworking pieces using radically different palettes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same technique can also be used in a similar way with the free, open-source software 'Gimp'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The children taken to the National Media Museum in Bradford, chose a Kinora Viewer - an early hand held device for showing short movies by flicking through a batch of still images shot at a rate of around 16 per second. The object, designed by Auguste and Louis Lumiere, provides a magical way into understanding how humans and other animals see things move.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <b><a href="http://vimeo.com/89351865">short film</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.culturestreet.org.uk/teachers/kinoraviewer/">teachers lesson plan</a></b> cover the KS2 requirements on how light travels as well as explaining recent discoveries by scientists studying the perception of movement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was no room to include this additional short film showing a real-life example of the 'false face' phenomenon explored in the lesson...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This outake footage was made during the CultureStreet (formerly 'ArtisanCam') <b><a href="http://www.culturestreet.org.uk/channel_artist.php?channel=art&id=2">feature on the major exhibition by Jaume Plensa</a></b> at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...offers two demonstrations of how the images we see are produced in our brain. The resource doesn't credit the scientist who first realised how vision actually works. It is worth pupils knowing about him even if the National Curriculum ignores his existence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the ancient world, many thought that sight was caused by the eyes sending out beams of light to the objects we then see. Even bright chaps like Plato rated this theory. Others believed that objects emitted tiny physical copies of themselves that entered our eyes (so a table would be constantly beaming out streams of nano-tables). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The discovery of what we now regard as the correct theory is credited to the Muslim scientist Ibn al-Haytham, born in Basra in 965 AD (354 AH). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was the first to explain how rays of light entered the eye, are focused on the retina an how the optic nerve carries the information deeper into the brain where the image is perceived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Professor Jim Al-Khalili has a useful article about Ibn al-Haytham at</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">has been added to the V&A's permanent collection. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Even more than the Anne Chair, this piece needs to be viewed from a variety of angles to appreciate the subtlety of the form within a form. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The 'Development Activity' suggests asking learners to compare and contrast Neal's work with that of the ceramicist Michael Eden. Rather than use the suggested link to the archived CLEO film about Mike's work, there are now two better options;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a film made for the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York...</span><br />
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