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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine vertical files of clippings, prints, museum brochures, etc. to find items that are interesting to them. They fill out one column of a three column sheet with Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry as the categories. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students observe a nearby landscape over the course of the school year noting the characteristics of each season. They explore the artwork of notable landscape artists and create original portfolios of landscape sketches, paintings and writings. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 8th
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Students wood chip and water trees. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students study recognized pieces of artwork and how they have been parodied. They choose a famous work of art, write a letter to obtain permission to use the work to parody, and then create a parody once permission is granted. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students explore early American culture through classroom centers surrounding the book, Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder. They choose a skill that they find in the story, research it and write a how-to essay about it. Full Review »
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- 10th - 11th
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Students Experimentally determine the smallest deflection to load ratio (¿¿y/P) for a given length of four different beam designs of balsa wood. They analyze the results for different beam designs and relate the equation that describes how deflection varies with the geometry of the beam. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students examine the landscape paintings of Grant Wood or a regional artist of the teacher's choice. They determine how he used lines to create space, texture, and movement. Next, they sketch a landscape on a draft paper before they make changes and updates. They draw the landscape on a Styrofoam plant creating a relief which they use to make block prints that show texture, space, and movement. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students explore works of art by Grant Wood and Picasso. They compare and contrast the Picasso style to the American Gothic style of art. Students sketch pictures of a man, woman, gable house and pictchfork and then change the work of art to fit Picasso's style. Full Review »
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- 5th - 9th
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Students identify and analyze what is the gothic of American Gothic, including architectural details, the time represented by the artist, the difficulty of midwest life, and Grant Wood's experiences. They design their own American Gothic with book characters to create their own interpretations. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
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Students read facts about Henry David Thoreau and "Sounds" from Walden. They create a graphic organizer about living in the woods. In groups, students simulate and debate whether or not Henry should stay in the woods. They write a summary of why Henry wanted to live alone in the woods. Full Review »
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