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Who Am I? A Look at Portraits

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils examine a variety of portrait examples in order to visualize how information is portrayed in the pictures. They create a portrait.
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Who Am I? A Look at Portraits

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine a variety of portraits and distinguish them from other art forms. They examine and analyze what visual clues reveal about the people in portraits and create their own portraits.
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Picture It!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils practice visualization by picturing themselves in their minds at the beach. They share their visualization describing what they see, feel, and what they are doing. They discuss the importance of visualization, to picture in their...
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Inquiry Lesson About Color

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate the color choices artists make in their work, and to practice the scientific process of predicting, observing, inferring, and interpreting. This lesson's purpose is to prepare students for a museum visit.
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How to See with your Eyes Closed

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students close their eyes and practice visualizing different images as the teacher makes different topical suggestions. They listen to the poem, "Daddy Fell Into the Pond" and visualize what is happening and thinking about the characters...
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Here's an Instant Activity for May 3, 2004

For Teachers 1st
First graders use their visual skills to improve their spelling skills. In this spelling lesson, 1st graders read words and find smaller words within each example.
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Shades of Blue

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students sharpen visual literacy and color vocabulary by making and sharing collages that explore the different shades of colors.
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Sedimentary Structures- An Adventure in Painting and Collage

For Teachers K - 6th
Students identify and interpret concepts about how the Earth was formed and convey some of these ideas in a painting. Students experiment with different types of paints and paint applicators to achieve a variety of visual textures....
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The Little Red House

For Teachers K - 1st
Students develop the first developmental skill in Gross Motor Coordination, Fine Motor Coordination, Auditory, Language, and Visual areas using the story "The Little Red House."
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THE TRAVELS OF BABAR: An Adventure in Scale : The Instruments of the Orchestra

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students classify the classes of instruments of the orchestra: strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion. They aurally and visually identify the instruments of the orchestra. Students become actively engaged in live performances by...
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I Can Dance to the Music of Everything

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners examine Keith Haring's art work. They apply visual imagery to rhyming, rhythmic words with Haring's "Dance" book. They make impressions on styrofoam plates to explore printmaking process.
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If I Had as Robot...

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students design a robot of every day objects and name it. They write about things the robot could do for them using the "If I Had a Robot" activity sheet using the robot as a visual aid to add to their creative writing.
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Shades of Blue

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students sharpen their visual literacy and color vocabulary by making and sharing collages that explore the different shades of colors.
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Penny for your thoughts

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils look at a variety of pieces of art and discuss them according to moods or feelings expressed. They pick a piece of art that they like and then write a poem or story to go with it.
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Warning: Smart Kids Inside!

For Teachers 1st
First graders study the three railroad warning signs through a visual introduction. They write a class book.
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Les Grands Artistes de Mme Michele

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars become familiar with Picasso's art through viewing his paintings. They create their own Picasso-like paintings of each of the following types: person, person with hat, conversation between two people, mirror (reveresed),...
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Teachers 1st
Visually represent a retelling of the story by writing and illustrating their own Hungry Caterpillar book.Observe and describe the life cycle of a butterfly.Also, observe caterpillars, record growth rates and changes over time.
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Romare Bearden

For Teachers K - 12th
Students examine and discuss a collage by the artist Romare Bearden. They analyze the impact of jazz on art, listen to jazz, and create an original collage.
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Paste Papers

For Teachers K - 6th
Students combine acrylics with School Smart Art Paste to paint paper and to explore color mixing.
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Water Music

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore music about water. They listen to various pieces of music, play instruments, and plan and create a piece of art that includes a water motif.
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Design a Theme Park

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine pieces of art by Alice Adams. They discuss what they see in the paintings. In groups, they design their own piece of playground equipment.
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Beeswax Flower Candle

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create "Beeswax flower candles" in this early-elementary classroom Art instructional activity. Materials needed include foam pieces, straw, a glue gun, clay pots, beeswax, and popsicle sticks. This activity is ideal for the...
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Marshmallow Bunny

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars create "marshmallow bunnies" using marshmallows, toothpicks, pink construction paper, and cloves in this quick and easy early-elementary level Art lesson plan. The 30-minute lesson plan is ideal for holiday ideas around...
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Sticky Hearts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create "sticky hearts" in this early elementary lesson plan that explores the use of different media in works of art. The lesson plan suggests using white posterboard, constructions paper, corn syrup, food coloring and lots of...

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