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Posters with a Message I

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students choose a phrase with a positive theme and create an image that depicts the theme in the "Keith Haring style."
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Creature Candle Holder

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this art project worksheet, students make a creature candle holder out of self hardening clay. This worksheet is geared to the adults who will be instructing the students. No pictures of the finished craft are provided.
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Valentine Colors

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students celebrate Valentines day by creating an art project.  In this holiday lesson, students discuss Valentine's Day and it's meaning, then create a Valentine colored painting using red tissue paper and paint.
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Petite People

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Learners design a toothpick/clothespin doll by following given instructions. They use toothpicks and embroidery floss (or clothespins and yarn) to create a little people pins to be worn or displayed in student created dioramas.
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Leprechaun Shadow Picture

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students create a shadow picture. In this art activity, students draw a scene and draw things they want to "spring" out of the picture. Students cut out the items they want to "spring" out of the picture. Students zig zag fold strips...
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Potato Head

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students create a potato looking object. In this art lesson, students decorate hamster bedding with a face making it look like the potato. Students water the object causing the grass to grow making it look like hair.
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Leprechaun Rhyming Poem

For Students 2nd
In this St. Patrick's Day worksheet, 2nd graders read a rhyming poem about a leprechaun. They say the word that rhymes at the end of each couplet. They see and possibly color a black line picture of a leprechaun on the second page.
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Christmas Morning Surprise

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students "plant" mints for Christmas. In this Christmas lesson, students "plant" starlight mints in the ground. You switch the mints with candy canes, so when the students come out they think their mints have grown. 
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Painting With Water

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create water masterpieces while being outside. In this creative painting lesson students are allowed to paint with water on doors, cars and the sidewalk.
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Animal Adaptations

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover the adaptation of species through analyzing pictures.  In this scientific discovery instructional activity, 5th graders discuss the concept of adaptation in order for survival.  Students view many images of extinct...
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Embossing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create an embossed print inspired by cultural motifs.
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Nature Print Silk Suncatchers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students are introduced to the beauty of silk painting. They create a colorful leaf-print sun catcher that glows when placed in a window. Each student experiences the mixing of the colors and tie a link with Asian cultures, science and...
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Grammar Skills

For Students Higher Ed
In this language arts worksheets, students will study word charts of adjectives. Students will focus on various uses of adjectives including qualifiers, observation, size, and description words.
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Mini Totems

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners create a totem pole in the vain of those made by tribes of British Columbia and Alaska.
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Cloud Viewer

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine different types of clouds. For this cloud lesson, 4th graders examine pictures of different types of clouds and read details about them in the captions under the images. They make a cloud viewer by cutting out the...
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Impressionism - Printmaking

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine the history of printmaking and the artists who developed these processes. They combine the monotype printmaking process with other media to create mixed-media works, and write a story about their pictures.
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The Pipa Pipa Frog

For Students 3rd - 4th
The Pipa Pipa frog is the focus of this reading comprehension learning exercise. After reading a passage and studying a photograph of the frog, students complete eighteen phrases that tell about the frog.
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Barrels, Casks and other Curvy Containers: Math, Geomety, Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students construct a barrel or other curvy container and then estimate and gauge its volume.
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Let's Tesselate

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate the geometrical concepts of translation, reflection, and rotation. They make different observations looking for the concepts that are displayed in classroom items like floor tiles, carpet designs, and visuals hung in...
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Sequential Still Life

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders identify and use the concepts of shading, outline, and watercolor wash. They design a unique sequential still life painting with pencils and watercolors.
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Exploring the Night Sky: Fall/Winter

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explain how moon phases occur. They explain three ways that the night sky has been used through history. Students locate some of the constellations in the night sky. They discuss stories and myths surrounding stars.
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Finger Painting and Feather Painting with Nature

For Teachers K
Students explore finger painting and painting with feathers and recreate the look of objects in nature. They read the book, 'It Looked Like Spilt Milk,' create a shaving cream print, paint with feathers, and construct a mirror image on...
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Weather and Climate

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify the words plain and climate and discuss what would happen if it never rained. Students identify and interpret the weather in Poland and create a web illustrating various weather patterns. Students write a 4-line poem...
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3-D Topographic Maps

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create a 3-D topographic map.  In this map building lesson, students use cardboard to create a topographic map of the Catskills mountain region.