Interdisciplinary Connections for
Models and Designs
 
These sites offer some ideas for connecting science learning
with endeavors in other content areas.
art | language arts | math
Art
Crayon Art Techniques
If you're working with FOSS's Ideas and Inventions kit, this
site focusing on techniques for creating art with fabric
crayons may complement your study of pigments and crayon
rubbings.
You Can Create a Kaleidoscope
This page has easy instructions and good diagrams that could
help you and your students make kaleidoscopes of your own.
The materials mentioned here might be a little expensive;
perhaps an art instructor in your school could suggest
alternatives.
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Language Arts
Friction: Investigate and Report
On this site, Scholastic's Dirtmeister challenges students
to investigate one way that friction works either for or
against you as you go about your day, and then write about
it. There's a section to report your own findings and read
what other students have written.
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Math
Symmetry and Pattern: The Art of Oriental
Carpets
This site from
Drexel University's Math Forum and The Textile Museum in
Washington, DC provides really easy to understand details
about symmetry, asymmetry, basic types of symmetries, and
grids. Click on "About Symmetry and Pattern" for these
basics and "Educational Resources" for math-related
activities.
Mirror Systems in Kaleidoscopes
This FAQ page on a commercial kaleidoscope site
provides a nice explanation of how the mirrors within
kaleidoscopes produce certain types of symmetrical images.
The page discusses angles quite a bit, and offers
mathematical challenges that you and your class could work
on solving.
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