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Imagine the Future of Energy®: An Art Program for Children
Sponsored by Kids Love Arts™
This pilot program introduced by The Living Love Foundation’s Kids Love Arts™ of Ventura County California invites the young artist to imagine and understand what energy is, where it comes from and how they can use art to tap into it.
Children today are facing a future world where a sound understanding of the properties of energy will be essential in their day to day lives. This art-energy program will give them a nuts and bolts understanding of wind, sun, water and air power and help them move beyond the framework of energy as something they simply get from plugging a cord into a wall socket or something that comes out of a pump at a gas station.
In addition to exposing them knowledge through hands on examples of water mills, wind mills and solar powered toys, Kids Love Arts™ uses basic tools that are easily accessible to children so they can continue to incorporate their understanding of energy into their daily lives. The curriculum arms them with simple artistic-engineering principles which include; working with the weight of paper to origami and propel through the air; wind manipulation through kite making; pin wheeling; the properties of helium which help a balloon move effortlessly through the air and more.The program covers the ways in which this power can be harnessed and utilized on the day to day as well as how it can be tapped into through art. Finally they will have an opportunity to expand on what they have learned through sketches and modeling. The solar scooter, a solar powered motor bike was designed and introduced through this program.
Kids Love Arts™ and Imagine the Future of Energy is touring the country in a re-furbished bio-fuel vehicle that was acquired by The Foundation from the Director of The Atomic Mirror in Ventura County. This will be an exciting part of the tour, because participants are invited to sign the Bio-Fuel vehicle with their wishes and dreams for the future of energy and their world.
Fall 2008 Tour Cities:
Kansas City, Mo.
Chicago, Illinois
Los Angeles Ca.
Long Beach,Ca
Oxnard, Ca.
New York, New York
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