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American Indian Art

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover and gain an understanding of American Indian art creating three beads out of clay, showing texture on at least one bead to make a balanced bracelet. They then explain either orally or in writing what kinds of...
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Murals, Memories, and Making Art

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the life and works of famous artists. Using the internet, they take notes and present their information to the class in an oral presentation. They create their own original artwork in the same style of their...
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Global Art: A Sense of Caring

For Teachers K - 12th
Students participate in a global art project in which students from around the world share their art. They explore different cultures and languages as they view different types of art.
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Interactive Art: Let's Make It Happen

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine art by Christopher Janney. They discuss what the art is showing and what it means to them. They create their own piece of interactive art.
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Scratch Art

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students utilize Painter Classic to fill in a canvas with bright colors. They paint with the opaque and smeary brushes as they create a new layer on top of the colored canvas with the proper icon on the palette. In addition, they have an...
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Create-a-Composition

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners creatively express themselves by creating simple pieces of music.
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Using Shanties to Create Lyrics

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students demonstrate an understanding of shanties, a traditional music form. They listen to several shanties and create their own verses to add on to these songs. They express their feelings through music by using rhythm and rhyme to...
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Creating a Canvas Floor Cloth

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create a clored canvas floor cloth. They practice color blending and pattern design.
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Seaweed Art

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils read a book about seaweed. They create various types of seaweed by painting a variety of lines. Students utilize a variety of line techniques such as wavy lines, zigzag, and curly.
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Creating, Notating and Recording an Original Song

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are provided with a set of parameters, including theme, time signature, number of measures, and form. Working within these parameters, the class , step by step, goes through the process of creating, notating, and recording a...
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Creating a Job Community

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students design their own job communities. In this art and career exploration lesson plan, students are placed into groups to create models of business areas based on job types.
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What's In A Name: Art That Honors Achievement

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine a quilt by artist Faith Ringgold. They discuss what story is told by the quilt. They create their own collage quilt showing a person for whom a building in Bronx is named.
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Majestic Murals

For Teachers K - 5th
Albert Bierstadt is a highly celebrated artist who was able to capture the beauty of the American landscape. The class will first learn how Bierstadt explored America during the 1800s and painted the majestic countryside. Then, they will...
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Analyzing Story Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Lesson ideas to teach students how to analyze story elements through visual representation.
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The Three Life-Giving Sisters: Plant Cultivation and Mohican Innovation

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Children gain first-hand experience with Native American agriculture while investigating the life cycle of plants with this engaging experiment. Focusing on what the natives called the Three Sisters - corn, beans, and squash - young...
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Otis the Owl Pattern

For Teachers K - 6th
Use this owl pattern for a paper craft or with fabric. Each part of the template is labeled clearly, and the big parts make this easy for young elementary schoolers to complete. Cutting, however, will be difficult for kids under 2nd grade.
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Outline: Notes of the Bass Clef Staff

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young musicians demonstrate their knowledge of the bass clef staff and prepare for an assessment  by completing a fill-in-the-blanks worksheet
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Shadow Chasers!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Experiment with light and shadow with a photography lesson plan. Learners first view several artistic photographs. They then play with different levels of light and various objects, eventually putting together compositions and taking...
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Fun Music Company

The Treble Clef

For Students 2nd - 12th
Gee, your young musicians should have no trouble tracing the treble clefs on this activity. Once they have mastered this tricky signature, they place it correctly on a staff.
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Fun Music Company

Code Breaking with Music Symbols Representing Letters

For Students 2nd - 12th
Navajo code talkers beware! These kids use music symbols to break the codes and find both the question and the answer to a music trivia question.
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Fun Music Company

Bat Trails: Music Symbols

For Students 2nd - 8th
Whether written for Therese, Elisabeth, or for Juliane, young music theory students will enjoy pursuing the clues hidden in music symbols that indicate who wrote "Fur Elise."
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Fun Music Company

Name the Instrument

For Students 2nd - 8th
Here's a word scramble activity that asks kids to identify a series of instruments and then transpose the circled letters to reveal the name of the world's oldest playable musical instrument.
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Interlocking Curves Box

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Kids make their own intricate gift boxes using the templates provided by this resource.
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Commonly Confused Words

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Test your scholars' knowledge of commonly confused words with this grammar worksheet. With multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank options, this ten question activity is certain to express your learners' understanding.