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Op Art: Educator Resources
Resources for any educator wishing to incorporate Op Art into the curriculum. Age/grade recommendations are included, but all plans and ideas should be easily adaptable for younger or older students.
Exploring Optical Movement in Art
A lesson plan for two 40-minute sessions, including standard, materials, background information, vocabulary and, of course, the activity itself. Geared toward students in elementary grades 4-6, and part of the larger ArtsWork site.
Op Art Circles
A pretty straightforward lesson plan for secondary-age students, the focus of which is to create a piece of Op art. From the much larger site KinderArt.
Psychedelic Checkerboard Op Art
A lesson plan for creating a "checkerboard" design using vertical lines and concentric circles. The top of this page contains the lesson as written for grades 4-6, while the bottom has the adaptation for grades 3-4.
Vasarely and Op Art Lesson Plan
A lesson plan for two 45-minute periods, aimed at students in grades 4-6. The plan has a lot of detailed edu-speak throughout, but it looks like the whole concept boils down to teaching the artistic principle of repetition.
Vasarely Bubble
This is just a nice little applet created in JavaSketchpad that illustrates the distorted grids with which Vasarely so frequently worked. One needs only the ability to drag one's cursor.
Licium's Technology Resources: Optical Illusions
If you're looking for an all-in-one page of optical illusion graphics, this is a good starting point.