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Sign Language

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create short video tutorials on various American Sign Language signs. This lesson is a six-day project that begins with internet research and ends with student self-evaluations of project results.
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Identifying Figurative Language

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore figurative language. In this Fahrenheit 451 lesson, students read the Bradbury novel. As they read, high schoolers note the simile, metaphor, and personification examples that they encounter.
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Persuasive and Emotive Language Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore persuasive language. In this emotive language lesson, students consider the use of language that incites readers as they participate in reading and writing activities that require them to describe a tourist attraction,...
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Figurative Language Academy Awards

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine figurative language in writing. Students demonstrate simile, metaphor, and personification in their own writing.
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Focus On Figurative Language in Prose

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the use of literary prose in the story, "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed." In this literary prose lesson, students investigate the use of imagery, metaphor, and simile in the story. They tell how author's purpose is...
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Figurative Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a PowerPoint show illustrating two types of figurative language. They demonstrate understanding of personification by creating and interpreting simple examples. They also demonstrate understanding of alliteration.
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Looking and Learning in the Art Museum

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students prepare for a trip to a museum and review the elements of art. In this museum and art lesson plan, students define the difference between looking at a reproduction of art and an original. Students identify the elements of art in...
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Performance into Art

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore two works of art of performance art. In this performance art lesson, students analyze performance art in the examples of Yves Klein and Joseph Beuys. Students complete image based discussion activities. Students research...
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Pinwheel Modern Art Styles

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore artistic design by creating pin wheel models in class. In this modern art instructional activity, students examine historic art work of Van Gogh, O'Keeffe and Mondrian before emulating their work on construction paper....
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Looking at French Decorative Arts

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students research the history of trade in porcelain wares from Asia and the quest to re-create true hard-paste porcelain in Europe and art in French society. In this French art lesson, students research and discuss the possible effects...
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Art and Influence of Theatre

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students examine an 18th century drawing and produce a skit based on the drawing. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze the story depicted in a drawing and create a skit inspired the scene. Students research the 18th century...
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Art and War

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students analyze art and war and the Futurist movement. For this art analysis lesson, students define manifesto and its role with artistic movement. Students explore art as a response to political and social issues through image based...
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African Art: Ntan Drum

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students study African history, anthropology and culture using the lens of the art object, Ntan Drum. Lesson and instruction is differentiated for elementary, middle and high school students.
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Language Arts Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this online interactive language arts review worksheet, middle schoolers respond to 36 multiple choice questions regarding literature and grammar. Students may submit their answers to be scored. A reading selection is missing for a...
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Japanese-Inspired Sea Animals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore the Japanese influence on Cincinnati artist Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, by examining her metal works, Basket and Chalice. They research a sea creature using nonfiction books or Internet resources. Students write a...
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Talk The Talk

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students create their own "talking sticks" that reflect personas they have invented in this Art lesson designed to introduce the Yoruba peoples from Nigeria. Emphasis is placed on personal reflection after completing the "sticks".
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Discovering the Element of Color in Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale: A Comparison of Tone Color and Art Color

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experience several different tone colors in the song and also add layers of color to their copy of "The Owl" to compare and contrast how an artist would create the element of color.
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A Master Production

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners create an "art garment" incoporating personal writings and found quotes with images of life and dreams on a disposable or recycled garment. This lesson includes scoring rubric.
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Read My Expression

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students create a facial expression in clay using slabs of clay and coils that convey a feeling inspired by a poem in this excellent cross-curricular lesson plan suitable for the Laqnguage Arts or Art classroom. National Standards met...
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Idioms in Everyday Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create an iPhoto book exhibiting a variety of idioms that describe feelings. They take photos using a digital camera that show students exhibiting the feelings explained by the idioms.
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Total English Elementary: The Arts

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary activity worksheet, students consolidate key vocabulary from a unit of study as they classify terms by unscrambling words and identifying 6 films based on the categories listed.
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Walters Art Museum

The Symbolism of Allegorical Art

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Introduce learners to allegorical art with four bronze sculptures by Francesco Bertos. After modeling how to recognize bias and allegory in Bertos' Africa, class groups examine the other three sculptures in the series before creating...
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Days of the Week

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
"TH" is for "Thursday." Language learners practice pronouncing the English names for the days of the week, write these names on cards, and then place the cards in order.
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Text as Object and Art: Aesthetic Impact on Audience Reception of Books in the Early Renaissance and Today

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders examine the role that aesthetics play in the publication of books. In groups, they apply the concept of physical affectation on each reader's experience to literature. They also compare and contrast the varied types of...

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