Native American Art: LOGO Style
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Undergraduates, future teachers, enrolled in CS 360: Logo Programming at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls completed this project during the fall semester of the 1996-1997 academic year. For this project, students investigated Native American art using the world wide web, as well as library and school resources. Each student selected art pieces to inspire a logo programming graphic design project. Logo procedures were developed using top down design to create a design inspired by Native American art. A home page was then created by each student after studying html coding and home page construction.
What Was Learned from Doing This Project
We learned more about the internet and how home pages actually work and are created. It is important to understand the technology and how it works so that we can use these ideas in future teaching.
How the WWW Was Used to Research This Project
The WWW was searched for examples of Native American Art and for information about such art. The web was also used to study and learn about home page construction, standards, html codes, examples of page layouts, and detailed information such as code numbers for background colors.
How the WWW Project Focused on Coursework
By completing a class project on the web, we could see all our individual projects come together for a useful purpose, one of sharing our Logo project with other students and teachers.
What Mathematics Was Utilized in Your Project
In several projects trigonometry was used to calculate angles for triangles. Geometry was utilized to determine angle measures for isosceles and right triangles and algebra was used to figure the differences needed to outline and fill objects. Students also applied graphing in cartesian coordinates to create the effect desired for nested geometric figures. Several students also applied the Pythagorean Theorem in order to determine desired lengths.
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