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Celestial Photography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice photographic skills and gain an awareness of photography as a scientific tool.
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Spinning Short Vowel Game

For Teachers 1st
First graders, in pairs, use spinners to experiment with different combinations of letters. They combine letters and determine whether they have produced a word or not. They construct and record words choosing letters from designated tiles.
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Drawing On Gray Toned Paper

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create an artwork that uses organizational principles and functions to solve a visual arts problem. The piece creates the illusion of transparency used to unify a work of art that demonstrates that light advances and darks recede.
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PEBBLE PICTURES

For Teachers K - 8th
Students paint pebbles to look like people, fish, butterflies, or birds. They glue to a background.
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Beautiful Numbers

For Teachers K - 6th
Students focus on the shape of numbers.
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Emily Carr's Trees

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore flowing lines and form
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Magnetic Poetry

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students reinforce creative writing skills.
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Art Appreciation

For Teachers K - 6th
Students explain that everyone has their own opinion about what they think is good art. They study images, then put a heart behind the one they like the best, the least and the one they think their mom or dad would like.
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What is a Still-life?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use works of art to explore how to paint a still-life.
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Investigation 4 - Dinosaurs Tracks

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders make inferences and interpretations from sets of dinosaur tracks. They describe Utah fossils and how they were formed. Partners trade their sketches of tracks and try to guess which dinosaur it belonged to.
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Buildings, Buildings Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gain awareness of shapes in architecture by creating a painting of their school and writing a reflective summary of their study of architecture.
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Dino Dung!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine how there is more to poop than they think! After reading through material, they answer a series of questions on coprolite, and explore the diet and physical attributes of dinosaurs, as well as their environment.
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Learning Empathy Through Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers observe the painting, From That Day On, by Ben Shahn, and reflect on the story of the Lucky Dragon. They research and discuss the physical and emotional side effects on the Japanese people after the atomic bomb was dropped.
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What's the Chance of Rain? Lesson Plan 2

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students utilize and interpret numerical statements regarding rainfall patterns which quantify chance. They design and prepare surveys and experiments to answer questions or test conjectures and predictions.
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What's the Chance of Rain? Lesson Plan 3

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students conduct experiments involving chance to estimate the probability of rainfall patterns. They interpret and evaluate information contained in tables and databases.
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Middle School Home Energy Audit

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders research the origins of local electrical power and compare costs and methods of generation with other areas of the country or world.
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SKYDYES

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use fabric they have created in their quilts. Unlike dyeing and marbling, hand-painting fabric with Setacolor textile paints is not messy, not toxic, and the serendipitous results make every student feel like an artist!
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Visual Arts: Matisse and Escher

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are introduced to the art of Henri Matisse and M.C. Escher. They create original works in the styles of Matisse and Escher and consider how their innovations have affected modern art.
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Transforming Negatives to Positives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create double-exposed photographs, poetry, and multimedia presentations to celebrate their Open Court "City Wildlife" unit.
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The Story of Red and Blue- ART

For Teachers K - 12th
Students examine works in Keith Haring's Red and Blue art series and emulate his style in a piece of their own work.
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Käthe Kollwitz: Never Again War!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore Kathe Kollowitz and other Holocaust artists.
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Count by Fives

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore counting by fives up to one hundred using a hundreds chart. They create counting hands that are hung on a clothespin and string, and students orally count by fives to one hundred.
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Earth Bags

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discuss the environment and the problems facing our natural resources. They write ways to help the environment on paper grocery bags, illustrate them, and distribute them to grocery stores to be used with customers.
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Art Curators

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use the Internet to select various works of art around a theme. They create a PowerPoint exhibit of these works and create the written documentation to accompany their presentation. They critique the class exhibits.

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