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    Steampunk art

    • Steampunk is an art, fashion and culture movement inspired by the industrial revolution. ... The steampunk aesthetic combines imagery from the industrial era—machine parts like cogs and rivets, clockwork, and laboratory equipment—with Victorian art and design and futuristic concepts such as robotics


    • Steampunk was originally a literary genre, a subset of science fiction, with the first authors of the genre considered to be Jules Verne and H. G. Wells.


    • A robot has these essential characteristics:

    • Sensing First of all your robot would have to be able to sense its surroundings. ...

    • Movement A robot needs to be able to move around its environment. ...

    • Energy A robot needs to be able to power itself. ...

    • Intelligence A robot needs some kind of "smarts."

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    We are learning to 

    • Investigate the art style of steampunk to inform help our creativity . (Communicating and Interpreting)
    • Use our knowledge of steampunk art to create ideas for a fish sculpture (Developing Ideas)

    Success Criteria

    • Using the provided resource on Steampunk art, create a workbook page which outlines the main points about the art.  You should have a mixture of facts and images on your page.  The images don't have to be fish but examples of the steampunk style.  
    • You will show drawings which begin to morph realistic outlines of fish shapes into a robotic/steampunk style of drawing.