My students need a Detection of Art Forgery Kit, refills, test tubes and a uv lamp to see the chemistry within CSI detection of art forgeries.
$535 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
Go hands-on on someone else's painting! Scratch it a bit. Fun. Chemistry in a math class! Art History in a math class. Why not?
My students don't take Chemistry.
Art class lives as a diversion, an oasis. Math is drudgery. Life for continuation students is one of artful dodging. Their home life isn't great; and generally, well over half are very poor. They live in the present.
<p>Interactive activities excite them, and quite frankly, even a little resulting knowledge of test tubes and solutions and their connection to Art, TV CSI, and even "litmus tests" makes all teaching easier afterword. The students see the interactions, the value of doing math and science: the hidden joy in their art.</p>
<p>Of course, they touch a bit of art history as they work. Seeing historic artwork, not just cool tattoos on the web also creates connections between art and history and appreciation of life.</p>
My Project
A simple classroom kit with chemical refills of phony Van Gogh's, Monet's, and Pollock's, magnifying glasses, lead nitrate, potassium chromate, paraffin, .... gives students the materials to perform the activity of detection. Additional materials include test tubes and an UV Lamp
Detecting forgeries supports California's Art Standards (VAPA) for high school: "Students apply what they learn in the visual arts across subject areas." What else would be expected for an activity that would make a Disneyland imagineer proud! This project can be completed in December 2012.
The importance of the project is to make Art not just real emotionally, but also so show why the hard stuff at school applies to art.
Tangentially, it helps students enjoy being in a math lab; where surprise is sadly rare.
My math students enjoy coming to class. Tough students in other math classes end up in my room, and they like it. This is the opposite of a dropout factory.
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