Grade 6 Projects

Art

Flowers in the Style of Georgia O'Keeffe

Paintings by Mrs. Metcalfe' Students from the Cyber Art Show in June 2004

Georgia O'Keeffe's Paintings
Biographical Information about Georgia O'Keeffe
Finding and Cropping Images of Flowers and Plants

Georgia O'Keeffe's Paintings

Permanent Collection
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/visit/permanent.html

Georgia O'Keeffe
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C,
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=A&Person=103030

Georgia O'Keeffe
http://www.tragsnart.co.uk/arthub/okeeffe/okeeffe.htm

Georgia O'Keeffe
Ellen's Space
http://www.ellensplace.net/okeeffe1.html

Georgia O'Keeffe
Art Cyclopedia
Links to her works in many museums
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/okeeffe_georgia.html

Georgia O'Keeffe
The Artchive
Links to her works in many museum
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/O/okeefe.html#images

Biographical Information About Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe
American Masters
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/okeeffe_g.html

Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, and American Modernism
Wadsworth Atheneum
http://www.tfaoi.com/newsmu/nmus153b.htm

Portrait of an Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Online NewsHour
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec97/okeeffe.html

Georgia O'Keeffe
Encyclopedia of World Biography
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/okeeffe_g.htm

Finding and Cropping Flowers and Plants for Your Watercolor Painting

Below are some flowers and plants that should provide images once you have cropped them to create dynamic positive and negative space.

Use www.google.com.

Click on Images.

Use the singular form of the name of the flower--daffodil not daffodils.

Use exact phrase searching, when the name of the flower has two or more--"day lily".

Copy and paste image and it's URL or Web address into MS Word

Crop the image.

Save the document with the image into your network folder.

Ask permission to print.

Print.

Make color notes.

iris	daylily	daffodil
lily	rembrandt tulip	violet
narcissus	lady's slipper	poppy
magnolia	orchid	hibiscus
Jack-in-the-pulpit	trillium	marsh mallow
agave

4/12/2005 M. Gallagher & L. Averill

Greek Architecture

Marshall Cavendish Digital
Exploring Ancient Civilizations - online encyclopedia about ancient cultures from around the world including Greek and Roman
See Ms. Averill for the user name for McGee and the password for MCDigital resources.
Search under Greek temple or under frieze.
http://www.marshallcavendishdigital.com/

Classical Orders
Charlotte-Meckenlenburg Historic Landmark Commission Kids Dictionary
http://www.cmhpf.org/kids/dictionary/ClassicalOrders.html

Greek Picture Gallery
http://historylink101.net/greece1/pic-main.htm

Greek Architecture: Looking Forward, Looking Back
[Good descriptions of Greek architectural orders]
Odyssey Online
http://www.carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/Teachers/ll/Greek_Lesson_Plan/Athenian_Treasury.pdf

Ancient Greek Architecture
Kidipede
[Click on the links to Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian]
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architecture/greekarch.htm

Architecture in Ancient Greece
[Good descriptions of Greek architectural orders]
http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Art/

How the Acropolis Was Built
The Acropolis Experience
The Greeks
Empires
PBS
[Virtual tour of the Parthenon as it was built 2000 years ago in ancient Athens]
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/acropolis/built.html

Ancient Greek Temple by Michael Lahanas
[Scroll down to find the English language section.]
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/GreekTemple.htm

Greek Architecture
http://www.crystalinks.com/greekarchitecture.html

Greek Architecture
Architecture Through the Ages
Think Quest
http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/greek.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0314

The Greek Temple by William Rowbothan
[Includes information about the role of the Greek temple]
http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/articles/greektemple/greek_temple.htm

History of Greek Architecture
History of Western Architecture
The Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp./org/orion/eng/hst/greek.html

Ancient Greek Architecture
Great Buildings
http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/greek.html

Greek Architecture
Digital Archive of Architecture
Prof. Jerry Howe, Boston College
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/greek_arch.html

Temples
Perseus Project
Tufts University
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/browser?object=Building&field=Type&value=Temple

Frieze Patterns
http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/educ/reid/Geometry/Symmetry/frieze.html

Parthenon Frieze
Columbia University
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/parthenon/flash/main.htm

The Parthenon Frieze
http://www.ekt.gr/parthenonfrieze/introduction/temple.jsp?lang=en

Bauplastik, Friese
Die Photographen
Institut fuer Klassischen Archaeologie und Antikensammlung
http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p1altar/photo_html/bauplastik/fries/ebene3.html

Metis
Interactive Quicktime clips show how important ancient sites look now.
http://www.stoa.org/metis/cgi-bin/cat

Updated 10 April 2008 L. Averill