Aiken County Public Schools
Claymation in the Classroom
Students design an appropriate and usable storyboard and then create a claymation video. They take digital photographs frame by frame, then assemble the stop-motion movie using video software.
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Cranimals in 3D
Students design their own mix and match animals, using lesson framework that emphasizes transformation, explore differences between clay and model magic, experiment with clay, and shape their animals into 3D sculptures.
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Singing with Support
Students examine the correct way to breathe while singing and demonstrate proper breathing techniques while singing a song. They view and discuss a video clip from "Breath of Life: Our Respiratory System," demonstrate breathing and...
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Brass Instruments
In this music worksheet, students read about the 4 main brass instruments in the orchestra: trumpet, horn, trombone, and tuba. Students also write the missing words into 8 sentences.
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Animation Flip Books
Students investigate examples of animation made from a flipbook technique in order to learn how to create their own flipbook and to learn how this process looks like an animated cartoon. In this animation lesson plan, students will...
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Year of Memories
Students make a scrapbook. In this documentation lesson, students take photos throughout the school year of various lessons and activities in their classroom and in the school. Students create one scrapbook page per month and put them...
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Animation Station
Students examine clay animation. In this technology lesson, students use the Internet to investigate the history of clay animation. Students use story boards and clay figures to create their own "animation."
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Papier-Mache Retirement Buddies
Students make papier-mache people. For this relationship building lesson, students develop a relationship with a local retirement center or nursing home and get to know at least one of the residents. Students make a...
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After Impressionism from Van Gogh to Matisse (1886 - 1906)
Young scholars plan a museum visit to study Impressionist paintings and its artists. In this Impressionism lesson, students examine the colors and perception of space in Impressionist artwork. Young scholars recognize the...
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Photoshop for Fifth Graders: the Basics
Students review the basic tools for Adobe Photoshop. In this Photoshop instructional activity, students choose a picture and discuss its properties. Students use tools to see how pictures are altered. Students use layers to...
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Creative Dancing
Young scholars dance a Cossack dance. In this dance lesson plan, students learn to keep the beat and follow a movement sequence to dance a Cossack Dance.
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Watercolor Painting- Pointillism with Fruit
Fifth graders explore pointillism painting techniques. In this pointillism painting activity, 5th graders paint fruit using shades and tints. Students use the pointillism techniques along with watercolors to create a layered look....
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All the Colors We Are
Young scholars make a hand print mural. In this painting lesson, students read the book All the Colors We Are and describe the color of their skin. Young scholars learn how to mix paints to create various skin tones, create their...
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Puppet Frogs
Students identify the elements of line, shape, and color and expressive qualities of pictorial representation. Students create their own puppet frog using emotion and perform in a reader's theater. Students listen to various pieces of...
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Fifty States In Rhyme
Students perform "Fifty States in Rhyme" with correct posture, correct rhythms, and accurate pitches. They also identify and perform such musical terms as tone color, tempo, dynamics, phrases, and accents. Emphasis is placed on the...
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Film Music And the Use of Musical Riffs
In this music worksheet, students examine the use of riffs in music (short repeated pattern to form the basis of a longer work). Students use a keyboard or piano to play three 4 measure riffs from film scores. Students write the name of...