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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the elements of composition in various artworks. They analyze and discuss paintings, explore "The National Gallery of Art" website, identify the shape of compositions in paintings, and draw a diagram. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine and identify the elements of composition in a variety of artworks. They discuss various artworks, explore websites, and identify how composition elements make the work successful as a painting. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students complete a variety of activities as they study the basics of artistic composition in the visual arts. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate how artists create a story that provides a message or provokes emotions in a single image. The ways in which the composition of a painting contributes to telling the story or conveying the message is examined in this lesson. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students evaluate and critique both their own and other students work while creating their own art pieces in this two-week lesson. This can be combined with a photography lesson to form a unit of study on Compositional techniques. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students are able to describe and identify prime and composite numbers. They are introduced to the names of prime and composite by prime numbers are like 7 because only 1 and 7 can divide into it and not leave a remainder, and composite numbers are numbers like, 6, because 1,2,3, and 6 can divide into it and not leave a remainder. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students, while looking and examining a photograph provided to them, write a composition that exemplifies the photograph with at least three of the five composition rules illustrated with 100% accuracy. The composition is the start of the photographic process on the creative side. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students determine whether a number is prime or composite. They identify all the whole number factors of a composite number. Pupils explore and use divisibility rules. Students use strategies to determine prime and composite numbers and to arrange a composite number's factors in a rainbow pattern. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students create and perform original band compositions using their own band instruments. This two day lesson requires student compositions to be done at home. Students evaluate performances using a checklist for composing (included). Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students identify different kinds of narratives used in a number of art works, discuss artist's use of compositional elements to further the story and/or convey a message within a work of art, and explain relationship between composition and content in a number of works of art. Full Review »

