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Complementary Color Experiments

For Teachers 1st - 6th
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

For Teachers 1st - 5th
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

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils 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

For Teachers 1st - 5th
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

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners 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

For Teachers 1st - 12th
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

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Pupils 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 visually...
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Welcome Back!

For Teachers 1st - 6th
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

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create an airborne sculpture with a partner based on the sculpture The Cheyenne. In this sculpture lesson plan, students discuss the difficulties in creating an airborne sculpture.
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Collaborative Creation

For Teachers K - 5th
Students examine the body parts in a sculpture. In this sculpting lesson, 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

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students research visual arts by reading a children's book. In this colors lesson, students identify the primary colors and utilize food coloring, plastic cups and eye droppers to create art using the color combinations. Students...
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Asian Art

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the art of a number of Asian countries. They look at slides and sculptures, and make a Chinese hand scrolls.
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Responding Syllables: Reading and Music

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
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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The Fisherman and His Wife

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Engage conversation and explore the journey as you challenge young readers to interpret the german folktale, "The Fisherman and His Wife" written by literary brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
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Literacy Activities for Any Time

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
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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Vocabulary Cards 1st Grade A-L

For Teachers K - 2nd
Help young mathematicians acquire key vocabulary with this printable resource. Three different cards are provided for each word; one with only the word, one with the word and a picture, and one with the word, a picture, and a definition....
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Vocabulary Cards 1st Grade M-Z

For Teachers K - 2nd
Clarify key math vocabulary terms with this series of printable cards. Three different versions of each term are provided; one with only the word, one with the word and a picture, and one with the word, a picture, and a definition. Note...
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Paint a Wet-Into-Wet Watercolor

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students demonstrate the technique of painting wet-into-wet. For this painting lesson, students create colors to paint with by mixing two or more colors together. Students use water color to create various images.
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Visual Arts

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create a finger painting which exhibits both the primary and secondary colors.
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Create An Illuminated Alphabet Word Book

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students develop a class alphabet book. In this visual arts lesson, they draw a letter of the alphabet that is illustrated with animals or objects in the style of medieval illuminated alphabet books. They write a sentence about an object...
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Colors Warm And Cool

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss, evaluate, and analyze hot, warm, and cool colors using two Thomas Moran paintings as examples in this Art lesson for K-3rd grade classrooms. The two paintings suggested are "Rock Towers of the Rio Virgin" and "Mountain...
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String Art

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create colorful works of art by folding construction paper in half, and pulling out pieces of string that are coated in paint.
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Nature of Chagall - Oil Pastel Drawing - "I and the Village"

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
By studying the art and style of Marc Chagall, students create a surreal piece of art representing themselves and their surroundings and illustrating Chagall's quote, "Great art picks up where nature ends".
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Brothers Grimm

For Teachers K - 2nd
Class members participate in a read aloud of an illustrated version of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. They discuss the tale,"A Fisherman and His Wife" to discover how fairy tales can help us think about our own situations. They also...

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