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Using Art to help our Thinking

Using Art to help our Thinking. This exercise uses a few Thinking Routines to help you use your thinking skills in different ways to develop your understanding of some things you have already studied. Look and Think… 10x2. To the right is an artwork, a sculpture, by Jeff Koons .

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Using Art to help our Thinking

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  1. Using Art to help our Thinking This exercise uses a few Thinking Routines to help you use your thinking skills in different ways to develop your understanding of some things you have already studied.

  2. Look and Think… 10x2 • To the right is an artwork, a sculpture, by Jeff Koons. • Look for 30 seconds, thinking about what it might be about. (What ideas does it make you think of?) • Now, on the sheet provided, write down 10 ideas as words or phrases this artwork makes you think about. • DO NOT MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE YET

  3. Look and Think again… • Now, consider what you already know about MATTER and FORCES. • Look again for 30 seconds • List another 10 words or phrases this sculpture makes you think of in relation to matter and forces.

  4. What makes you say that? • What surprises you about this sculpture? • Do you think the scenario depicted in this artwork is realistic? • What makes you say that?

  5. What makes you say that? • Now look at this image to the right…. • What do you think is going on here? • What makes you say that?

  6. Connect… • Now, look at your ideas from the 10x2 lists when you looked at the Jeff Koons sculpture again…. • What connections can you make between this image and the Jeff Koons sculpture?

  7. Extend… • How has your thinking about matter and forces been extended by thinking about these images? • Do you think the artist Jeff Koons has a knowledge of density?

  8. Challenge… • How has this exercise challenged your thinking about matter and forces?

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