Art in Motion

A student rolls a ball down a ramp hoping to get the ball into the center hole:

Hard and to the right

Hard and to the left

Gently and to the right

Down the center of the ramp

Look at the picture below of wheels on an axel. Describe the direction the wheels on the axel will go. Explain why.

Forward

To the Right

To the left

______ A ______

_________ B _______

_________ C ________

______ A ______

_________ B _______

_________ C ________

What is happening between each pair of magnets above:

Magnets A&B are repelling and magnets B&C are attracting

Magnets A&B are attracting and B&C are repelling

What is the best definition of Kinetic Art? Art that....

Looks interesting

Looks like it is moving

Has parts that move

Has many lines and colors that interact

The chart below shows the steps in the Engineering Design Process. Pick the correct step of the Engineering Design Process you would use to try again if your design did not work.

Your teacher gives you materials to create a Rube Goldberg machine. The materials look pretty cool, but challenging. Which sentence describes what you would do?

Ask a classmate to help you so you don’t do it wrong.

Wait for the teacher to help you so you don’t do it wrong.

Pay attention to the directions so you do it right.

Ask a classmate to do yours because he’s smart and won’t mess it up.

Your teacher says that if you want to, you can keep working with your dominoes to make a more amazing sculpture. What do you do?

Pretend that it worked great and put it away.

Ask your teacher or a classmate for help.

Copy a classmate’s design.

Try to figure out why the pieces don’t fall as you want them to and try to fix it.

In a class activity, you are trying to figure out how to build a sculpture with moving parts. On your first try the pieces don’t fit together. Your first try probably didn’t succeed because....

It wasn’t a fun activity.

You just aren’t good at building.

You didn’t try hard enough.

You didn’t follow directions.

At the end of the year, you might take a test on the information you learn about art and engineering in this class. Make a guess at how you think you will do. I think I will…

Do poorly because I don’t know anything about art and engineering

Do well because I am smart

Do well because I am a good student

Do well because I like learning new information

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