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African Masks

For Teachers K - 5th
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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Cotton Paper Bag Puppets

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners read book, "The Cotton in your T-Shirt," brainstorm facts about cotton, make cotton paper bag puppets, and list facts about cotton on the back.
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K-W-L Chart of Seasons

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners think about what kinds of clothing they are currently wearing and then think about why they are wearing these particular articles of clothing. They write what they already know about seasons and generate questions about what...
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Appreciation Cards

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss jobs in which have impacted their lives directly. They create appreciation cards for a person who they believe needs appreciation. They give their cards to that person and share their reaction with the class.
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What's Your Expression

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore facial expressions in a mirror and create drawings of people with a facial expression of their choice. They graph the facial expressions drawn.
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Make a Dried Bouquet

For Teachers K - 8th
Students examine how drying flowers was a popular hobby for Colonial women during the Colonial era in America. They read and discuss an instruction sheet, and create dried-flower bouquets that are hung upside down and tied with a string.
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Observation and Discovery

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore the basic skills guiding sound scientific invvestigation and methodology. They are introduced to a powerful scientific tool-the microscope. Students review the parts of the microscope. They discuss the inventor of the...
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Grizzly Habitat

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students find areas on playground where they would live if they were a grizzly bear, share their reasons for their choice, talk about habitat areas, and choose their sites again, based upon new information.
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Daruma-san

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students set, and attain a goal using a daruma, a Japanese folk toy.
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Collecting S.O.C.K.S

For Teachers K - 12th
Students participate in the Collection S.O.C.K.S program to protect their local watersheds. Using the socks, they plant new plants and trees around the watershed in order to protect it for future use. They also perform in a skit that...
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Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Elementary Art Lessons

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Art lessons for elementary students. They are sorted into categories of grade levels, medium used, subject matter, art period, artist, and cross-curricular connections.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Counting on Art

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Several lesson plans available for grades K-8 that take a look at math and art. Each lesson includes printable resources, glossary of terms, an artist biography, and national math and visual arts standards.
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The Teacher's Guide Art Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A multitude of lesson plans from various sources compiled for you in one list. Projects are primarily for younger students but could be adapted to older elementary grades.
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Aia Michigan: Architecture: It's Elementary!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The It's Elementary! curriculum guide is home to numerous lesson plans and activities designed for teaching architecture to students in grades K-5. You'll find activities involving math, science, visual art, and social studies. Includes...
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California State University

Egyptian Cartouche Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Introduce elementary students to ancient Egyptian art through this fun clay lesson. Students study hieroglyphics and make cartouches with their names inscribed.
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Art and Language Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Find two dozen lesson plans developed by California teachers that use pieces from the Getty's collection as source material for interdisciplinary approaches to arts and language arts learning.
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Laus Dnet: Grade 1 Word Lesson Plan (Stone Soup) Pdf

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, young scholars use Stone Soup by Ann McGovern to generate word lists and use patterned text to assist with descriptive writing. Gives links to step sheets and samples for creating a table , a template for shared writing,...
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Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers: Art Teaching Ideas

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A great resource for discovering fun, art activities for teaching primary- and elementary-school children.
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Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers: Art Teaching Ideas

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A great resource for discovering fun, new classroom activities for teaching primary- and elementary-school children.
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Language Arts and Skills Lesson Plans for Special Needs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A list of language arts lesson plans with corresponding books for young students with special needs. Click on the links in the right-hand column to access the complete lesson plan.
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PBS

Pbs Teacher Source: Reading and Language Arts

For Students K - 1st Standards
PBS TeacherSource provides lesson plans and activities for all grade levels in the subject area of reading and language arts.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Novel and Picture Book Ideas (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers K - 1st
Novels and picture books are great ways to teach across the curriculum. This site lists about 75 novels and picture books around which CanTeach has constructed lesson ideas and plans. All grade levels indicated.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Browse and Search Resources

For Students K - 1st Standards
This site shares a collection of expert and peer-vetted teacher resources that are searchable for teachers and students. Searching can be achieved via a subject, grade, audience, and/or type. Curricula standards for the following subjets...
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Ncte Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An overview of the updates for the national standards for English Language Learners in a 21st century community. Set by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association, this site includes elements of...

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