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Calico Watercolor Cats
A fun art project, this lesson incorporates math and listening skills as young artists play with a new painting technique. First the teacher models how to draw a cat using shapes, an oval for the body, triangles for the ears and so on,...
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Schools of the Past and Present
First graders take a look at schools of the past and present, and try to conjure an idea of what schools of the future will look like. After taking a walk around their own school and taking note of the buildings and the things that are...
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Poetry in Triple Textures
Learners compare and contrast visual and tactile textures. They create a painting that highlights one or more textures. Learners express these textures in a poem to accompany their art. They recognize that words can express the visual...
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Women
A close study of two works of art provides the introduction to this cross-curricular writing assignment. After comparing the clothing, facial expressions, body language, setting, and color in the two 19th century paintings Tissout’s...
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Where's the Boss? -- A Scripted Play About the Iditarod
Pupils utilize a Reader's Theater script and accompanying lesson plan to learn about the Iditarod race that takes place in Alaska. During the process, they also learn about teamwork and working together.
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Hand Vase: Ceramics
Ceramics can be a wonderful medium. The class creates fun and funky hand shapes vases inspired by Aboriginal art forms. This would be a great project to do just before Mother's Day.
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Pictures at an Exhibition
Learners discuss how the musical composition was created. They listen to "Pictures at an Exhibition." Students discuss how the Promenade in the beginning of the opus is based on Mussorgsky walking through the exhibit of paintings....
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Carrying on the Storytelling Tradition
Learners examine the art of Clementine Hunter, a Creole folk artist. They compare Hunter's Folk Art style with Grandma Moses' Primitive work. They then draw an important memory in Hunter's style, and describe their drawing orally for a...
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Milk Carton Houses
Create a village and learn about recycling at the same time! A materials list is included, as well as instructions for what you need to do to create a recycled carton village with your kids. Two great book links are included.
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Striking Impressions
Learners create a wall hanging using Crayola Model magic in this lesson. They roll out bright colors of modeling compound into various thicknesses. They use plastic dinnerware to make designs in the surface. Finally, they cut the Model...
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Hues and Bridges: Claude Monet's Waterloo Bridge
Students investigate the artistic work of Claude Monet. For this art analysis lesson, students observe Monet's painting Waterloo Bridge, while identifying the blue hues used throughout. Students create their own painting of a...
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Complementary Color Experiments
Students experiment with color mixing and differentiate between primary and secondary colors. They use their observational skills in visual experiments with complementary colors to gain an understanding of the interrelationships of art,...
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Fruitful Bounty
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the holiday of Thanksgiving and they work in small groups to find out what kinds of foods are grown and harvested during that time of the year. The information is used to create the...
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Know Noses
Students use the internet to find out all they can about noses. As a class, they develop characteristics for a super nose. Individually, they take an existing human or animal nose and sketch a new design. To end the lesson, they mount it...
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Magical Courtly Structure
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the creation of a model that is focused upon the theme of an imaginary world. They work in groups to create a magical and courtly structure using modeling clay. Then students talk about...
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Spinning Color Wheels
Students are introduced to primary and secondary colors. Using cardboard, they make a wheel in which they divide into different pie sections to color with primary and secondary colors. To end the lesson, they spend time mixing two colors...
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Starry Night Ornaments
Students are introduced to the impasto technique used by Vincent Van Gogh. Using the internet, they research Vincent Van Gogh's life and work. To end the lesson, they make their own ornaments using the impasto technique and lots of color.
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Book Banners
Young scholars practice sequential story retellings with colorful, collaged book banners. They listen to a story that contains a clear sequence of events and in groups choose a scene from the story to depict in a collage. Each group...
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Welcome Back!
Students visually represent their identities on handmade puzzle pieces. They participate in a personal get-acquainted activity designed to build friendships in a new group. They get to know new classmates with fun. Students etch five...
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Creative Problem Solving
Students create an airborne sculpture with a partner based on the sculpture The Cheyenne. For this sculpture lesson plan, students discuss the difficulties in creating an airborne sculpture.
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Collaborative Creation
Students examine the body parts in a sculpture. In this sculpting lesson plan, students view the "Eleven-Headed Bodhisattva" and discuss the characteristics of each body part. Student work together to draw one specific body part.
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Exploring Colors
Students research visual arts by reading a children's book. In this colors lesson plan, students identify the primary colors and utilize food coloring, plastic cups and eye droppers to create art using the color combinations....
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Responding Syllables: Reading and Music
Shell Silverstein’s “Sick” provides an opportunity for kids to demonstrate their understanding of syllables and phonemes. The class creates a list of descriptive words used in the poem that have more than one syllable, and brainstorm how...
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Literacy Activities for Any Time
As the title suggests, this packet is loaded with activities that can be used at any time. The common element in all the exercises is that they are connected to books by Dr. Seuss.
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