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\nSoil Pictures and Mud Puddles: Spring is Here!\n

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\nYou can take creative advantage of a season that offers soil in various forms, and inspiration for art lessons.\n
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\nCreativity and the Power of Flowers\n

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\nImaginations bloom when student art is focused on flowers.\n
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\nGetting to Know Me: Adventures in Self-Expression\n

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\nInvite students to understand themselves and share their discoveries with autobiographical art activities.\n
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\n\"Winter\n\n
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\nWinter Art Activities\n

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\nHere are some fun art activities to do in the winter time.\n
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\n\"Valentine's\n\n
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\nValentine's Day Art Activities\n

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\nFun art activities with a Valentine's Day theme.\n
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\n\"Conferences\n\n
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\nConferences With Parents Who Don't Get Along\n

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\nHow to deal with parents of a student who don't get along with each other.\n
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\nWe Have Work to Do!\n

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\nAn excellent lesson awaits your young scientists! In it, learners are invited to explore the world of pulleys, levers, and planes; simple machines that make lifting heavy things much, much easier. They watch video, and engage in hands-on...\n
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\nNon-Newtonian Fluids—How Slow Can You Go?\n

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\nChildren enjoy playing with silly putty, but it provides more than just fun. Young scientists make their own silly putty using different recipes. After a bit of fun, they test and graph the viscosity of each.\n
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\nMatch the Machine\n

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\nStudents identify simple machines found in different environments. In this matching lesson, students match the machine with the place it belongs.\n
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\nFamily Picture Quilt\n

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\nStudents explore family backgrounds and traditions while discussing how memories are preserved. In this patchwork quilt lesson, students create a keepsake by compiling pictures, drawings, and magazine clippings of things that are...\n
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\nKwanzaa in the Classroom\n

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\nYou can teach your students about Kwanzaa using these interesting lessons.\n
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\nPapier Mache Globe\n

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\nStudents use newspapers and balloons to create a paper mache globe. They define areas of land and sea with geen and blue tempera paint, then define borders with markers.\n
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\nMagnetic Art (3+)\n

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\nStudents explore the different fields of force of magnets and magnetized objects through the movement of metal filings. They use a magnet and metal filings to create a work of art.\n
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\nAn Artistic List of Ways to Make Flowers\n

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\nStudents use cupcake holders, paint, then add green construction paper stems and leaves to make flowers.\n
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\nLA CENERENTOLA (Cinderella)\n

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\nStudents formulate how to make puppets and realize that puppetry, like opera, is another kind of theater. They gain deeper knowledge of the characters in Rossini's La Referentially. Students use this concept to make decisions about...\n
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\nPen and Ink Drawing\n

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\nLearners hone their drawing techniques to create a nature-inspired piece of art. They practice hatching, cross hatching, stippling, and shading. They discuss how each method is better suited for creating specific elements in nature such...\n
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\nMath Quilts\n

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\nStudents examine geometric quilt patterns to identify how math may have been used to help slaves escape to freedom. They slide, flip and turn geometric shapes to create a map quilt.\n
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\nTeaching TV: Enjoying Television\n

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\nWhat makes a TV program enjoyable? As an introduction to media analysis, kids identify their favorite programs and the elements they find engaging.\n
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\nBuilding a Skyscraper\n

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\nCreating buildings that reach hundreds of feet into the sky is no easy task. The third instructional activity in this series begins with four activities that engage young architects in exploring the major challenges that are faced when...\n
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\n\"Polymers:\n\n
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\nPolymers: Making Silly Putty\n

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\nPutty is proof that learning can be fun! Share the wonderful world of polymers with your class through an experiment. Young scientists create their own silly putty, then examine its properties.\n
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\nWinter Wonderland Painting\n

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\nThe examples of art at the top of this page speak for themselves. Here is a fun and lovely project that gets kids outside to observe how snow falls on trees and how various trees are structured. They use crayons, tempera paint, and...\n
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\nExploring the Science of Water in Art: Water Cycle Lesson Plans\n

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\nWater cycle lesson plans provide an opportunity for teachers to collaborate, and students to discuss this important resource.\n
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\nA Day of Hanukkah\n

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\nYou can teach your students about Hanukkah using these fun activities.\n
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\nShoe Fish\n

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\nFishy, fishy, fishy, fish! Kids take off their shoes and trace them to create fish for a large aquarium art project. Each traced shoe shape is decorated with gills, fins, scales, and eyes, then hug on an aquarium background. Three book...\n
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