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The Art of Flying: Insects

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study insects. They examine how insect wings operate and make a model airplane that mimics the way insect wings operate as the insect is flying. They compare and contrast different kinds of insect wings and color a page of...
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Body Basics

For Teachers K
Youngsters discuss the basics for appropriate bodily behavior in the classroom. This lesson addresses the importance of keeping one's hands to yourself, raising your hand when wanting to speak, and keeping your eyes on teacher when they...
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What is a Seed?

For Teachers K
Students share experiences they have had with different types of seeds. After being read a story, they are given a lima bean in which they split apart and examine the inside. To end the lesson plan, they share their own ideas on how they...
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Butterfly Addition: Color by Numbers

For Teachers K - 1st
Children learning to add numbers up to 11 develop the strategy of using the larger number as the first addend and counting on from there to find a sum. They define addition and review the meaning of the plus (+) symbol. To practice, they...
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Around the Bend

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students examine the art elements of the Inca "Large Jug." In this visual art lesson, students identify the colors, pattern, and shape of the Inca "Large Jug." Students then draw a design on a flat and curved surface and discuss the...
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It's a Wrap!

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students investigate symbols and colors on the Osage blanket. In this visual arts lesson, students examine a blanket from the Osage culture and identify symbols on the blanket. Students create a class blanket, including symbols which are...
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Shapes, Patterns, and Plants

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students imagine they are animals in the Palace Facade painting. In this Palace Facade lesson plan, students observe and discuss the geometric and organic shapes in the painting shown to them.
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What to Wear: Career Day! Suit of Armor From Japan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners understand that some jobs require workers to wear special clothes or a special suit. In this art appreciation lesson, students observe the Suit of Armor and discuss how a samurai is requires to wear armor to work. Learners pick...
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Let's Have a Parade

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the art piece, "Death Cart." In this visual arts lesson, students discuss the artistic details of the art piece and design a cart for a classroom "parade." Students use cardboard boxes, glue, and markers to construct a...
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Memory & Song, Malagan Figures from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students investigate the uses of images, shapes and colors in classic art sculptures.  In this art analysis instructional activity, students observe Malagan Figures, a type of sculpture from New Guinea, and describe the different ideas...
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Your Attention Please: Iatmul Orator's Stool

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate art by observing historical sculptures from New Guinea. In this art history lesson plan, students observe pictures of the "Orator's Stool"from Papua New Guinea, while identifying the small details that make it...
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Doodle Splash

For Teachers K - 12th
Students navigate Doodle Splash to create a painting.  In this doodle splash instructional activity, students explain their splash painting relationship to a piece of literature.
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The Poetry in Non-Events

For Teachers K - 5th
The photograph, Nellie and her Italian Soda is viewed and discussed by the class. They are instructed to use the photograph as inspiration to write a poem about non-events, or things that are beautiful in every day life. Pupils use a...
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Measure

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students are asked what activities or things that they do each day. They are then asked do you do that in the morning, afternoon, or night? Students are then asked which of those things do you do first, second, third, and etc.
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Phonics and Vegetable Books

For Teachers K
Students participate in phonemic awareness and phonics activities and develop a list of vegetable vocabulary words. They break up words into beginnings and endings, and trace and write the letter s. Students then create a Vegetable...
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What is Weather?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify different types of weather and explore the weather for each season of the year. They complete a class seasonal weather chart, listen to the book "Oh Say Can You Say What's the Weather Today?," and create a magazine...
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Poppin Popcorn

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use their senses to write descriptive sentences. In this descriptive writing instructional activity, students discuss their senses. Students are asked to look at and feel unpopped corn kernels. Students then write descriptions...
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Hidie Ho H!

For Teachers K
Students become more familiar with the letter and sound of h by using the poem, Humpty Dumpty. They are given a sequencing sheet, a pair of scissors, crayons, and a piece of construction paper and told to put pictures in the correct order.
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Oh! The Stories Behind Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers K
Students investigate the games that children used to play to nursery rhymes. They explore the role of illustrators and illustrate their own book of rhymes in this unit.
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Why Is An Apple Like A Suitcase?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine a variety of fruit to discover that each has seeds. Through experimentation, they discover the role that fruit and seeds play in a plant's life cycle.
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Monsters, Monsters, Monsters

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students are introduced to how to use the internet and send emails. In groups, they work together to send emails to other students around the world. To end the lesson, they read their emails to the class and respond to their questions.
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The Art of Making Letters

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore letter formation through art. They analyze and discuss Jasper Johns letter paintings, and create the letter strokes using various colors and torn paper.
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Hands and Feet of Many Colors

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars perform activities that involve color and shape discrimination. They play games to practice memory skills. Students recognize body parts to participate in activities.
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Family Quilts Keep Us Warm

For Teachers K
Students discuss and describe the differences and similarities in families. After reciting finger plays about families, they draw pictures of their own families. Next, they incorporate their family pictures into a paper quilt.

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