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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze how Chicana/o and earlier artists have defined shapes within their artworks. They select, modify, or invent a shape they plan to use in their protest or persuasion print or mural. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students create a design using a detailed drawing reversing positive and negative space. They explain organic shape and geometric shape. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students make positive and negative shapes that be used to create a composition. The picture planes for this project are large sheets of paper, cut into different lengths and widths which, when finished, can be displayed as paper banners. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
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Students demonstrate their understanding of positive and negative space by creating a design based on positive and negative shapes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students participate in a number of hands-on shape-related activities. They match and sort shapes by attribute, read books about shapes, complete shape art projects and explore and compare parts of shapes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students compare and sort common objects by position, shape, size, roundness, and number of corners. They review the following shapes with students: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, and cube. Students discuss the number of sides of each shape. They use the "feely box" to find two shapes that are alike. The rest of the students in the class watch through the open end of the box. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students explore materials and experiment with stencil process. Students study positive verses negative shape. They experiment with color planning and learn what happens when colors overlap. They work with personal symbols and/or non-objective shapes and make at least one quality print. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students use toothbrushes, scissors, tagboard paper, pencils, drawing paper tempera cake or water color kits, and water supply. They draw a simple contour shape on tag board and cut it out in one piece. Students identify the positive and negative parts of the stencil. Students in grades K-1 do geometric and free form shapes. Upper grades can handle more complex shapes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students create positive and negative art shapes and compose a piece of Expressionistic art using those shapes and the ideas of color, line, and shape in this 5th through 8th grade Art lesson. Options are available for individual or group projects. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 5th
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Students explore shapes in everyday objects. They discuss the elements of design. Students describe the shapes they see in visual images. Students design and "build" a new 3D shape. They show and explain the shapes with their classmates. Full Review »
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