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Noggin @ Portland Art Museum
November 30, 2017 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
WHAT: Noggin Smell, Memory & Place at the Poster Project for K-12 teachers
WHERE: Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205
WHEN: Thursday, November 30, 2017, 5:30 – 7:30pm
See what we did – and smelled, and experienced earlier this month
One landscape contains the other…
Join NW Noggin on another olfactory trek through art at the museum!
Bridging the Museum and the Classroom
With generous support from the PGE Foundation, the Portland Art Museum has expanded the popular Poster Project and created eight, new, free posters this fall. Posters feature art across the Museum’s permanent collection by artists from Argentina, Syria, India, Oregon, and beyond. Deepen your knowledge of the original works. Make connections to school tours. Learn strategies for teaching writing, science, critical thinking, and more through art. Take away activities, lessons, and posters—available free to all educators.
What is smell?
Take a deep breath. Stuff is made of smaller pieces, and you just inhaled them through your nose. These pieces are molecules, and they are released from foods, surfaces, plants, trees, dogs, bodies, and that delicious pint of beer in your hands.
Up your nose is a hidden cavity, where special cells called odor receptors grab specific molecules and respond by sending electricity directly into your brain! These odor receptors stick these hair-like processes through the ceiling of the nasal cavity to bind molecules, and send more wire-like projections through holes in the bone below your brain to carry the currents.
LEARN MORE: Olfactory booklet
