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Monet's Magical Garden

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students study classic paintings by masters like Monet. In this art history lesson, students listen to the story Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert and sing flower songs with the rest of their class. Students examine the painting The...
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Night and Day: A Digital Art Lesson based on Monet's Rouen Cathedral Series

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Think about your favorite place ... now, think about what it looks like at different times during the day. How does the change in lighting affect the colors you see? Young artists explore the tools available in digital art software to...
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Lesson: Unfolding Water Lilies

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Comparing two different artistic mediums can be a welcome challenge. Learners compare Monet's The Water Lily Pond to three nature-inspired poems. They consider how each art form is interrelated, descriptive, and expressive. They then...
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Lesson: Living For The City

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Both Money and Cummings were able to capture the essence of Paris. Critical thinkers analyze how each artist used his medium to describe the same place in a different way. Kids then write a Cummings-style poem about Monet's Waterloo Bridge.
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Monet and Impressionism

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Monet is a great artist to study and impressionism is a wonderful art style to practice. Learners read about Monet then attempt to use impressionist painting techniques. Book and image links are included. 
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Lesson: A Garden for Monet

For Teachers K - 5th
To better understand artistic style and expression, your class compares two different paintings. They analyze each painting for style, technique, similarities, and differences. They then experiment with a variety of art materials and...
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Claude Monet's Interpretation of Light in Art

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Claude Monet provides a great way to lead students in a discussion of art, politics, and 19th century society.
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MONET'S GARDEN BY THE SEA

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners establish their own design utilizing a similar composition to Monet's, integrate their drawing skills in creating a "garden by the sea."
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Hues and Bridges: Claude Monet's Waterloo Bridge

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars investigate the artistic work of Claude Monet.  In this art analysis lesson, students observe Monet's painting Waterloo Bridge, while identifying the blue hues used throughout.  Young scholars create their own painting of...
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NGA Kids Inside Scoop Spring 2007

For Teachers K - 8th
Students become familiar with the work of Claude Monet and his garden paintings.  In this Monet lesson, students compare the garden works of Claude Monet.  Students examine pictures for the colors in his paintings. Students complete a...
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George Watts Montessori

Primary Lessons for Classroom and Garden

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Gardens are packed with science concepts for young scientists to explore. A thorough unit with 16 lessons and multiple activities in each provides many learning opportunities by examining a garden space. Learners study weather, growth,...
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National Gallery of Canada

Taken Out of Perspective

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Art does not always have to look perfectly realistic. Play with proportion and shape by stretching images. Pupils study works of art by Picasso, Cézanne, and Monet before selecting a photograph to adapt. They use a distorted grid to...
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Painting - Science Integration - Ponds - Monet - Painting

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify Monet as an Impressionist artist. They create impressions of trees and bushes, paint with sponges, and mix tints and shades. They create impressions of flowers with q-tip dabbing and mixing tints and shades.
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What Would Monet Do With a Digital Camera?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils use a Photoshop Elements program to edit digital pictures in the style of Impressionist art. They are are introduced to paintings by Claude Monet and identify the key characteristics of the Impressionist period. Students create,...
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Claude Monet Seasonal Painting

For Teachers K
Students are shown examples of Claude Monet's paintings. In groups, they are given one season to focus on and create their own reproduction of the same season in a painting. To end the lesson, they share their paintings with the class.
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Monet Water Lilies

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders recognize works of art from various cultures and identify the artist and culture. They view the artistic style and write a response to questions about the style. Students create a still life painting using the techniques...
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Monet And Impressionism

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create and discuss works of Impressionism in this lesson plan for the elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed on Monet's "Water Lilies" and the Bridge or Gardens at Giverny.
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Art Institute of Chicago

Send a Postcard

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Using Claude Monet's On the Bank of the Seine as inspiration, young artists create their own postcards. During the lesson plan, learners discuss the techniques used in Monet's painting, as well as the woman in the painting, and learn how...
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iCivics

Mini Lesson A: Monetization

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Advertising is everywhere! Does your class know that their attention span is for sale, even when they're watching a simple news story? The second installment in a five-part series from iCivics examines the relationship between news...
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Claude Monet's Pizza Day

For Teachers K
Students discover when art is used in our daily lives. Using cardboard pizza rounds, students make a pizza and discuss how it relates to advertising art. Students make pizza dough and analyze its texture. As a culmination to the...
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Watching Wheatstacks

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore basic shapes in Monet's paintings Wheatstacks, Snow Effect and Morning. They study about light and shadows through reading and experimenting with three-dimensional models and flashlights.
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Impressionism

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students explore and discuss Impressionism and artists, like Monet and Renoir, who defined the Impressionism Art Movement, choose an artist to research, and create web sites based on their research.
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Finding Fresh Scenes - Geography With Monet

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders locate a site in Indiana that has a different look or topography than their hometown. They develop a brochure for this place from the point of view of a publicist who desires artists to come to this area and paint the...
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Memorial Art Gallery

Art Alive! - Towing a Boat, Honfleur

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Color, light and shadow, the placement and size of objects. These are some of the tools artists used to tell their stories. Model for learners how to read a painting by closely examining these features. The richly detailed packet...

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