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Facial Symmetry

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners study facial symmetry. They explore lines of symmetry, and create illustrations with multiple lines of symmetry.
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Everyday Heroes You Can Be One, Too

For Teachers K
Students listen to a read aloud of Alan Baker's, White Rabbit's Color Book while identifying shapes and lines throughout the book. They use shapes and different types of lines to create a bunny of their own. They must use five shapes to...
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Making a Pinhole Camera

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students are introduced to the basic straight line pattern of travel that light takes. A cereal box and wax paper provide the pinhole camera that captures the light's inverted image. Shifting this pattern provides additional challenges.
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Draw What You Feel in the Bag: Art Game

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Here is a great game to play on a rainy day or as a warm up. Kids feel an object in a paper bag, they do not attempt to identify it, they simply draw what they feel. This results in a contour drawing based on line, feeling, and texture....
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Patterns, Patterns, Patterns

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Create geometric art in your classroom. Learners use a ruler to mark lines on their paper, they then trace a lid to create a series of circles. They color in each circle using two tones or colors to create an interesting visual pattern. 
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Compare Whole Numbers to 100

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice comparing whole numbers. In this number comparison lesson, students use number lines, number cards, base-ten blocks, and bean sticks to practice comparing whole numbers that range to 100. Students follow the teacher's...
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I Know What You Did Last Summer: A Data Graphing Project

For Teachers 7th - 11th Standards
Young scholars participate in graphing data.  In this graphing data instructional activity, students make a stem and leaf plot of their summer activities.  Young scholars create numerous graphs on poster boards.  Students discuss the...
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Contour Drawing Shells

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop skills in shading and create eye movement through the use of lights and darks. They show five principles of shading while drawing shells and bones.
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Vertical and Horizontal Lines

For Teachers 1st
First graders view works from Mondrian such as "Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue" receiving explantion of the primary and secondary colors and the color wheel and vertical and horizontal lines. They glue black strips to the...
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Famous Death Lines

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers examine Shakespeare's language. They select and explore death scenes from plays that they're familiar with and practice delivering famous death lines to one another. They should attempt to recreate the emotions that they...
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Hand Drawing

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Explore contour and shape with your class as they  complete a hand drawing. This resource outlines important points to focus on as you teach learners of any age how to successfully draw a human hand using a contour or single-line...
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Joseph Stella Art: Line Designs

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discover the focal point in pictures and create their own images using lines and space.  In this art analysis lesson, students create a black dot on a white paper which becomes a focal point for the lines the student will paint...
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Line and Expression - 2D

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students use the same line and shape techniques that Keith Haring used in his paintings to paint Haring people. In this painting lesson plan, students create lines to represent emotions.
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Contour Drawing - Portrait - Elements and Principles of Design Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars create portrait with contour line - drawing from observation, then contrast warm and cool colors - work with pattern and textures. They work wet in wet graded wash technique and develop skills in using elements and...
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Expression And Joy With Line, Shape And Color

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create positive and negative art shapes and compose a piece of Expressionistic art using those shapes and the ideas of color, line, and shape in this 5th through 8th grade Art lesson. Options are available for individual or...
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Plaster Casts of Natural Objects

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe objects in science and create a contour picture of the the object.  In this arts and science observation lesson, 4th graders develop a clay sculpture of their object.  Students generate a list of texture words to...
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Breaking up a Poem

For Teachers 7th
Complete with a SMART board presentation and all necessary materials, this lesson guides seventh graders through the process of writing poems and utilizing line breaks. After reading through the presentation and different examples, they...
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Listen to Me Tell You the Story

For Teachers K
Read a familiar story with repetitive lines that the class can remember. Afterward, make puppets and retell the story in small groups with an adult volunteer or an older child.
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How Old is Your Money?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Elementary learners explore coin mint dates. First, they listen to the book Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst. They then sort a collection of coins according to their mint date and put them in order from oldest...
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Frog Garden Party! Toads and Triangles in the Math Garden

For Teachers 4th Standards
It's frog party time! With frog banners, frog juice, and a triangle hunt, your garden party is sure to be both entertaining and educational. The instructional activity connects geometry, earth science, and delicious snacks to teach kids...
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Contour Wrapped Animal Portrait

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers will select a high interest animal portrait. After completing an n accurate light line drawing, the portrait will be finished using contours lines constructed of implied wrapping using pencil and pen. The eyes will be...
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Electric Field Mapping / Equipotential Lines

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students determine the equipotential lines surrounding a charged object. In this physics lesson, students draw lines to identify areas. They relate the spacing of the field lines to the strength of the charge.
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Moving Lines

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students gain an introduction to gestural line drawing along with art history correlations. They are encouraged to focus on the energy, mass, and expression of the subject rather than on illustrated replication.
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Am I Seeing Double?

For Teachers All
Students explore symmetrical design and lines of symmetry.  In this fourth grade geometry lesson plan, students create their own symmetrical design and identify and label the lines of symmetry.  Students use one design to create a card...

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