Art & Science: A Curriculum for K–12 Teachers from the J. Paul Getty Museum

Art & Science mines the treasures of the Getty Museum to explore the many intersections of the visual arts with scientific disciplines. Full-color images of antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, manuscripts, painting, photography, and sculpture illuminate lesson plans about, for example:

• The laws of physics that keep a bronze sculpture of a juggler from tipping over

• The science that allows photographers to manipulate light and capture images on paper

• The processes of radiation and convection that turn clay into porcelain

• Scientific observation of the natural world as the subject for art

• How scientists removed 2,000 years of oxidation and encrustation to reveal a priceless ancient sculpture

The curriculum also contains a trove of resources, including handouts, “Questions for Teaching,” a timeline, glossary, and list of print and web sources for further research. There are also links to additional related lessons and images available on the Getty website. The full-page color images and special “lay flat” binding of Art & Science make it ideal for use with a digital document reader.