|BRICKS & STICKS|
BRICKS & STICKS is a 1.200 sq. ft. gallery at the Long Island Children's Museum. Some of the components are pictured below.
BUILD, CREATE, CONSTRUCT, CONNECT,
Children have different learning
styles and children learn in different ways. Bricks & Sticks
addresses these differences by providing opportunities for:
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|BRICKS & STICKS > COMPONENTS > BUILDING BLOCKS|
|BRICKS & STICKS > COMPONENTS > BIG BLOCKS|
|BRICKS & STICKS > COMPONENTS > ARCHES|
|BRICKS & STICKS > COMPONENTS > SPHERES|
|BRICKS & STICKS > COMPONENTS > POLYSTICKS|
|Wooden sticks and bolted plastic tube connectors are the materials for building a multitude of shapes. An additional set of slightly shorter sticks makes a geodesic dome a great group project.|
|BRICKS & STICKS > COMPONENTS > POLY TABLE|
|POLYDRONS, a commercially available product, are the materials at hand at the welded steel POLY TABLE. There are 5 different plastic shapes available to use on the table. They can all be joined together in the same way to construct the models. The illustrated models are polyhedrons, three-dimensional shapes with many faces. The laminated instructions show the use of NETS, a way of connecting shapes on a flat surface and folding them to make the three dimensional models.|
|BRICKS & STICKS > COMPONENTS > VASE SPINNER|
|The spinning shape in the VASE SPINNER box makes a "Solid of Revolution." This is something like what potters do as they press their hands into a spinning lump of clay. The clay turns on a wheel and will mold itself evenly to the places where pressure is applied by a potter's hands. Even though the shape appears to be solid in Vase Spinner, it obviously won't hold water.|
|BRICKS & STICKS > COMPONENTS > UCCELLO|
|Paolo Uccello, for whom this program is named, was born in 1450 and lived and painted during the Italian Renaissance. He and the other artists of his time invented drawing systems which enabled them to represent three-dimensional space on a flat plane. UCCELLO is a software tool which makes "Solids of Revolution" like the one Uccello drew by hand. Use the yellow sliders to design a shape. The computer will spin the curve around like an eggbeater. Use the controls or click and drag on the object to set it in motion.|
|BRICKS & STICKS > COMPONENTS > SPACE CADET|
|SPACE CADET is a computer program allowing visitors to manipulate virtual objects in three dimensional space. Objects are viewable as: 1. a wire frame with lines connecting all the points, 2. a 3-D wire frame with the object drawn as your left eye and right eye might see it made visible with red/green glasses, 3. a set of spheres marking the points of the object.|
|BRICKS & STICKS > COMPONENTS > TETRA MIRROR by Sara Frucht|
|This magical mirror makes mysterious objects appear and float within an imaginary space. Move the objects around inside the reflective mirrors, poke your finger through the back hole to amaze your friends, place the sticks in the right way to make these shapes:|
|BRICKS & STICKS > COMPONENTS > arKIDtect|
|arKIDtect is a suite of interactives providing
an introduction to architecture.
Build with virtual blocks. Construct and deconstruct a playhouse.
Wander a timeline of architectural milestones,
and explore the built environment.
|EXHIBITS / BRICKS & STICKS / CREDITS|
Exhibit development and design: James Metcalfe
Michael Tomeo, Thao Nguyen Tran, Lutz Wallasch
Charles Nostrand, Exquisite Interiors, Nicole Langille, Kim Wagner
PolySteel: Todd Kingsley
Tetra Mirror: Sara Frucht
Block City Adam Greene
Graphic Design: Patricia Fabricant
|EXHIBITS / BRICKS & STICKS > COMPONENTS|