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Covering the Issue
Examine how art and music can be powerful tools for conveying a political or social message. After considering the issues surrounding rapper Paris, students design their own album covers that reflect their political and/or social...
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Random Album Covers
Students design a random album cover. In this album design lesson, students display their photo manipulation skills as they make a cover for an album. They examine covers of albums from classic bands before designing their own.
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CDs: Creating Direction
Students articulate a direction about prejudice through text and images via a CD album cover. In this prejudice instructional activity, students view images for prejudice from various sources. Students brainstorm words that contribute to...
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Platinum Perspectives
Students redesign a particular album cover of their choice in this excellent high school Art lesson. The lesson suggests using Adobe Photoshop and glossy inkjet paper for the final presentation of all products.
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Design a CD Cover
Students encounter a unique way to design their own personal CD covers. Students research on how others have designed similar covers. Students produce an original CD cover. Students correlate various singers to their CD covers.
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Fish Book Report
Students use previously prepared book reports about fish themed books to make a shoebox float that displays the theme of the book. Shoe boxes are decorated colorfully, using dolls or stuffed animals as the book character. They create a...
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Eye See What You Mean
Students study the arts of photojournalism, graphic design, and album cover design and use this knowledge to create original album cover designs. This excellent Art lesson can be easily adapted to a Social Studies classroom.
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Students design and create photo albums that tell the story of the play, Twelfth Night, using pictures they take of themselves recreating various scenes of the play.
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Science: Motion Commotion
Students examine Newton's three laws of motion to discover what causes it and how it changes. They conduct motion experiments by building catapults and constructing balloon rockets. Finally, they conduct peer studies correlating...
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Seminole Basketry
Learners listen as a guest speaker describes the process of gathering and preparing materials for making a Seminole basket. They use provided materials to create their own basket and finally, they give an oral presentation on their basket.
