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Lesson Plan
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Solar-Powered Prints

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Combine art and science with this fabulous lesson plan where your class will create solar-powered artwork! They will create a cyanotype, using photo-sensitive paper, sun, and water. A list of necessary materials is provided.
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Activity
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Crayon Scratch Designs

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students create crayon scratch designs. In this craft lesson, students use crayons to color a sheet of paper and then scratch their own designs using a paper clip.
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PPT
Google

Writing Topic Sentences

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
An engaging and quick presentation on writing topic sentences is sure to grab the attention of your elementary writers. The PowerPoint can be modified and includes relevant visual examples.
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2005 AP® English Literature and Composition Free-Response Questions Form B

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Does more power make you more important? Test takers ponder the question as the 2005 AP® English Literature and Composition Free-Response Questions Form B asks scholars to take a close look at power by writing thoughtful essays. Writers...
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Lesson Plan
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Breaking the Chains: Rising Out of Circumstances

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Study history through photographs. In this visual arts and history activity, learners learn to analyze photographs to discover details about life during the Civil War era. Students write journal entries as if they are the...
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Activity
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Hidden Rainbow Pictures

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students use colors of the rainbow and color patches on the paper remembering to press hard. In this art lesson, students use the black crayon anc color all over the paper covering all of the first layer of color. Students then use the...
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Lesson Plan
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Breaking the Chains, Rising out of Circumstances

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research, write, and draw about Roman versus American slavery. In this slavery lesson plan, students look at the Roman portraits of slaves, its influence on Western European art, and compare Roman slavery to American slavery.
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Lesson Plan
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Truth and Advertising

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners view and analyze fragments of advertising images from magazines to become familiar with different techniques used to sell products, write captions for advertisements, and create their own advertisements from scratch based on...
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Activity
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Bookmark Babies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make bookmarks by cutting cardboard into strips about 5 inches long by 1 1/2-2 inces wide. In this art lesson, students then glue their pictures on the strip.
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Activity
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Crayon Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students create an Easter Basket stuffer. In this holiday art lesson, students melt crayons together over a small cooking pot and pour the melted crayons into a candy mold. Students let them dry and are able to color with the...
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Lesson Plan
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Simulation: Norse Scratchings

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover the meaning of a Norse runic message as they study a Vikings unit. In this Norse alphabet instructional activity, students decode a runic message as a part of a study about Vikings. Students earn the letters to decode...
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Lesson Plan
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Elegant Art Nouveau

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create an elegant drawing in the ornamental, decorative and luxurious style of Klimt. After viewing a Powerpoint presentation, students create several patterns on scratchboards.
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Lesson Plan
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Tree Identification/Tree Art

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders identify and examine a deciduous and coniferous tree. Using the descriptions, they discover the types of tress in their local area. As a class, they practice identifying trees on a walk in a park collecting leaves. They...
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Lesson Plan
Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

Peace Quilt

For Teachers 5th
Learners explore color, shape, line, balance, radial symmetry, unity, repetition, and pattern as they make a peace quilt inspired by those made by Hawaiian women in the 1800s. After learning a bit about the history or peace quilts, the...
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Lesson Plan
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Mini Meals

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners discuss what makes a healthy and balanced meal, and then they make them out of clay. They use hand building techniques, radial design, and their knowledge of healthy foods to create unique mini-sized meals for a wall display. 
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Lesson Plan
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Line With Printmaking

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate the use of lines in different pieces of art by creating their own ink print.  In this art analysis lesson, 3rd graders identify the contours and lines of natural objects such as twigs and leaves. Students trace...
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Handout
Anchorage School District

Writing Effective Summaries

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Drafting a strong first sentence for a summary is an important step. Writers can use the formula presented on this handout to get started. The resource lists three steps to put together a strong topic sentence, as well as tips and hints...
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Lesson Plan
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All Aboard!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners, in groups, create a display showing a "train trip" to a destination of their choice from a teacher-made list. They also answer a series of questions related to their trip. Groups present their displays.
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Study Guide
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Study Guide for Where the Red Fern Grows

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
One of the best fourth grade books of all time is Where the Red Fern Grows. Provide your class with interesting background on the book and the author as well as worksheets for every five chapters of the novel. The first part of the guide...
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Lesson Plan
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Sarcophagus

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Here is another in a series of fantastic art lessons from this source. This one has young artists create a sarcophagus-style clay box! This lesson would be ideal to utilzie during a study of the ancient Egyptians. One note of caution:...
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Lesson Plan
California Academy of Science

Poetic Reflections

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Poetry is a wonderful way to explore language, express topical understanding, and incite creative thinking. After a trip to the local natural history museum (or zoo), learners write an acrostic or a cinquain poem describing one of their...
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Lesson Plan
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Mondrian: Rectangles, Squares, & Balance, Oh My!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover through guided, online research the life and works of Piet Mondrian in this technology-based Art lesson for the 2nd and 3rd grades. Emphasis is placed on the student creation of "Mondrian"-like drawings using Appleworks 6.
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Worksheet
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Really Useful List of 100 Plural Nouns in English

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students analyze a list of 100 nouns which do not follow the usual rule of adding an -s to make a plural. Students fill in the blanks of the chart and make irregular plurals. Example: tooth (teeth).
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Worksheet
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Choosing the Correct Verb in Sentences

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students choose the correct verb from 2 choices in each of 25 sentences. Students decide if the verb needs to be present or past tense.

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