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Room Balance
Students will be able to identify a symmetrical furniture grouping from an asymmetrical grouping. They will also be able to judge the visual weight of an item and use it to create a type of balance in a composition.
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Balance
High schoolers distinguish between symmetrical (formal) and asymmetrical (informal) balance. They create a black and white picture which displays both symmetrical balance and asymmetrical balance.
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African Masks
Fourth graders create three-dimensional paper African masks. They analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of Africa. they discover that masks were worn for various ceremonies.
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Kapa Designs
I always knew there was a connection between art and math, and this lesson proves it. Fifth graders will use what they know about ratios and percents to design art inspired by Polynesian kapa cloth. A grid, specific guidelines, and the...
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“Rhythm in Layers”
Young artists learn to build rhythm into a design by repeating colors, shapes, and patterns in a 3-D sculpture activity.
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Artwork of World Cultures
Seventh graders research a culture and art produced by the people of that culture. They create a PowerPoint presentation to explain their findings. Students make a sand painting depicting the art of that era.
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Elements and Principles Using a Movie
Students identify the elements and principles that appear in an illustration of a room and explain each concept in writing. They watch this movie identifying each of the elements and principles of design portrayed in the interiors of...
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Notan Collages - "Expanding the Square"
Notan is a Japanese word that expresses the interaction between light and dark. Learners explore Notan while creating dimensional art pieces that examine positive and negative spaces. They'll discuss the art of Notan, create their...
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Practice Performance Task - Security and Hacking in the Real World
Young computer scientists create a visual artifact that represents their research into a computing innovation in the world of cybersecurity. They then work individually to write an essay on the impact of technology on cybersecurity.
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A Different Point of View
Fourth graders imagine what North Carolina looks like from the air. Looking at a map, they list the different kinds of views we might find, (i.e., beach, mountains, cities, farms, etc.) then attempt to draw their own version of a map.
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Patterns & Balance
Students compare and contrast the difference in the two sets of images and discuss the visual interest in the first set and the different visual interest created in the second set of prints.
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Baked Polymer Clay 3D People Portraits
Students discuss methods of building forms with clay (ball and variations, snake, flat sheets). They draw a stick figure of what their sculpture may look like, including correct figure proportion.
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The Great Barracuda
Students explore oceanography by researching the great barracuda. In this animal life lesson, students read several vocabulary terms dealing with ocean life and examine a drawing of a barracuda. Students examine the many...
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Staghorn Coral
Students recognize that staghorn coral helps reef growth in the Caribbean. In this Coral Reef lesson, students design a habitat model using various art materials to explain how staghorn coral helps the reef grow. Students share their...
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Watercolor Paintings O'Keefe Style
High schoolers practice watercolor techniques and then apply that knowledge to a painting that uses subject matter and abstracts that Georgia O'Keeffe might have chosen.
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Wycinanki and Polish Folktales
Learners, with the use of the Internet among various other resources, research/locate Polish folktales and re-tell the Polish folktales in their own words. In addition, they examine the art of Wycinanki, Polish paper cutting.
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Recognizing Polar Molecules
In this polar molecules activity, students complete a graphic organizer by writing in the bond type, electron dot diagram, and the type of compound for the chemical compounds given.
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Body Plans and Adaptations
For this body plans and adaptations worksheet, students will review the different types of symmetry found in organisms. Students will identify body parts as found on either the ventral or dorsal part of an animal. Then students will look...
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Graffiti Name Tag
Students incorporate the principles of design, use creative lettering, and create a graffiti tag that is representative of themselves.
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African Masks
Students make replicas of African masks. They also express what attributes they would want to have as an adult and put that into their mask.
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Math is Beautiful
Pupils explore how geometry is used on the composition of artworks by artists from different cultures. This lesson is equally suited for a Math or Art classroom at the late-elementary or early-middle school level.
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At Play with Applique
Students apply an applique after learning about the process. Students accurately baste the appliques to the background fabric and hold them securely during the needle turn process.
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The Giant Barrel Sponge
Students study barrel sponges. In this science and art lesson, students discuss what sponges are, create their own sponge, and share what they created with the rest of the class.
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The Cleaning Station
Students study cleaning stations. For this science lesson, students make a painting of a fish known as cleaners which take dead skin off of other fish.