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Costume for an Inaugural Ball
Learners research fashions past and present. They design period costumes for inaugural balls, using color, patterns, shapes and researched information. In addition, they discuss the natural resources, technology and other factors that...
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Compound Species
Students gather pictures of animals, fish, birds, and insects, and sort them by category: land, sea, and air creatures. They choose two of these categories and imaginatively combine part of animals (such as horns, tentacles, fins, floppy...
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Color Kaleidoscopes
Students construct kaleidoscopes to demonstrate how an image is multiplied by angled mirrors before light rays reach their eyes. They follow step-by-step directions to create a kaleidoscope, and draw illustrations of the repeating...
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Color-Changing Cells
Students gather information about photoperiodism and senescence. They visually represent their comprehension about these processes in a 3-dimensional model. Students graphically distinguish between colors in a key.
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Chanukah Suncatcher
Students familiarize themselves with the traditions of the Jewish holiday of Chanukah and the symbols associated with it. They construct a hanging decoration to commemorate their understanding of Chanukah, using appropriate holiday symbols.
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Celestial Dreams Pencil Cup
Students create a visual reminder of their goals and aspirations. Then they use recycled material as an armature for sculpting a useful container. Students also select symbols for their cups reflecting their dreams and follow directions...
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Celebrate With Henna Hands Lesson Plan
Students study the historic and contemporary uses of henna body art in different cultures. They determine what henna is and how it is use as a temporary tattoo. As an art project, they trace their own hands and draw an appropriate woman...
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Castle in the Sky
Students research trends on housing, including predictions about environmental factors, population growth, technology, and their effects on housing in the future. They become familiar with the work of Maxfield Parrish and his use of...
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Captivating Characters
Young scholars read a book on their own and identify the characteristics of fantasy literature. After finding quotes from their favorite characters, they use construction paper to make models of them. To end the lesson, they use...
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Buckle Up! Bumper Stickers
Students, after researching information about their state's child safety laws, advocate passenger safety recommendations by creating original bumper stickers designs. They create bumper stickers to publicize how to reduce the risk of...
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Bold & Bright in Harlem
Learners research and explore the Harlem Renaissance and its rich history to create a bold, bright drawing illustrating everyday stories of people in their community. They research William H. Johnson, Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence.
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Blackbird Pie
Students research the history of the children's nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence." They interpret the ideas in the rhyme and create a visual representation of a Blackbird Pie.
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Black & White Drama
Students explore Ansel Adams's dramatic black and white mountain landscape photographs. They identify common geographic elements and animals indigenous to the Sierra Nevada and create original art in black and white to depict light and...
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Bengali Scroll Paintings
Students, after researching diverse cultures, art forms, and celebrations around the world, explore and study India's Hindu population that celebrates Diwali with colorful scrolls. They make similar paintings and assess this cultural art...
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Behind the Faces
Pupils explore and respond to the work of Marcel Duchamp. After exploring Duchamp's reworking of the Mona Lisa, they discuss how images can be changed. Using a photograph students rework their image in the style of Duchamp.
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Be Brain Smart
Students examine the function of the brain. Using the internet, they research facts of the brains of vertebrates. Using clay, they make three sculptures of brains of different vertebrates and use crayola colors to color it. To end the...
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Lesson: American Idyll
Using the painting, Childhood Idyll for inspiration, learners reflect on things that are idealized. They focus in on pop music and pop idols, write a song, and perform it in front of the class, American Idol style.
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Architectural Relief Tiles
Learners observe the design of buildings, either first-hand within their communities or with photographs. The design relief tiles representing buildings studied and use the vocabulary of design elements and construction materials used in...
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African Asimevo Cloth
Students research and observe the patterns and colors in Asimevo cloh of the Ewe people of Ghana in Africa. They compare the Asimevo cloth to other African textiles, such as Kete, Adinkra, and Kente cloth. They then create visual...
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Breaking News English: Apple Suing Samsung
Why is Apple suing Samsung? Give your English language learners a bit of reading comprehension practice. First, they read the short passage provided, and then they complete 10 activities. There are true or false questions, matching...
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The Wyeth Family of Artists
Young scholars work in expert teams to research the life and work of N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and James Wyeth. N.C.'s daughters, Carolyn and Henriette, were also artists. Their visual images of work in print or on the Internet are...
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Rhythm and Art: Painting
Students make connections between music and visual art. In this integrated arts lesson, students design paintings that challenge them to examine the relationship between art elements and principles.
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Forests and Treescapes with Romey Stuckart
Students discuss Romey Stuckart's painting, "The Cedar," paint a tempera or acrylic picture of a forest or treescape, using overlapping shapes, intense hues, and heavy brush textures, and discuss managed forest techniques preserve...
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Stopping Deforestation in the Amazon: A Publicity Campaign
Students investigate the environment by designing a group project. In this ecology lesson, students identify the man made threats to the Amazon while reading environmentally conscience vocabulary terms. Students collaborate in groups...