Informal 9 to 12

The Art of the Naturalist

The Art of the Naturalist

Acorn Naturalists is a company that sells nature educational supplies.  They carry an array of products designed to aid in developing educational lessons about nature using the arts.

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Science Scope Arts Issue

Science Scope Arts Issue

Science Scope is a online journal with educational science activities for use as teaching aids.  This issue (October, 2011) features several activities that use the arts to teach science.

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Sounds Like Science

Sounds Like Science

Nonprofit mentoring organization Michigan Reach Out! has a collection of science lessons based around the physics of sound.  These were saved from the now defunct Vancouver, Canada based APASE site.  Each one features the construction of a different simple musical instrument (drum, guitar, kazoo, and bottle organ), ending in a musical...

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The Chemistry of Paint

The Chemistry of Paint

One in a series of articles and bibiliographies on chemistry and art.

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Too Cool for School

Looking for a programmatic idea that connects science fair energy and activity with the arts?  Too Cool for School was a very cool program developed by Harbour Centre in Toronto in 2010.  Described as “an interdisciplinary project in which people from all walks of life come together in a convergence of art and science … The goal is to celebrate creative work that doesn’t fit into...

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