TAKE FLIGHT - PAPER MACHE
Inspired by the art installation Migration by Christopher Patch
Portland Magazine - Christopher Patch
The National Aviary - List of Birds
Above images from christopherpatch.com
MIGRATION (2015) is an installation of 43 life-sized, collaged, paper-mache bird sculptures based upon species from the artist's Life List of field observations.
BIG IDEA: Create a paper mache bird demonstrating flight
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Why might we acknowledge nature when creating art?
KEY KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING:
MAGNET THEME CONNECTION:
The forces of lift, thrust, drag and gravity influence the flight patterns of birds and are the same parameters that must be considered in the design of aircraft. Students are exposed to the overlap in an engineering concept to the discoveries that can be made by studying birds capable of hovering, gliding or steep diving. Each flight pattern demonstrates different degrees of adaptations in the birds capable of those feats. Teachengineering.com
Hands-on Activity: Adaptations for Bird Flight – Inspiration for Aeronautical Engineering
MIGRATION (2015) is an installation of 43 life-sized, collaged, paper-mache bird sculptures based upon species from the artist's Life List of field observations.
BIG IDEA: Create a paper mache bird demonstrating flight
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Why might we acknowledge nature when creating art?
KEY KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING:
- Step by step procedures to creating paper mache sculpture
- Use of found object materials
- Discovery of east coast artist Christopher Patch and relevance of field observations in art.
MAGNET THEME CONNECTION:
The forces of lift, thrust, drag and gravity influence the flight patterns of birds and are the same parameters that must be considered in the design of aircraft. Students are exposed to the overlap in an engineering concept to the discoveries that can be made by studying birds capable of hovering, gliding or steep diving. Each flight pattern demonstrates different degrees of adaptations in the birds capable of those feats. Teachengineering.com
Hands-on Activity: Adaptations for Bird Flight – Inspiration for Aeronautical Engineering