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Lesson Plan: A Miniature Game
Art inspires art, as children work to understand artistic forms that come from the imagination. They analyze the installation piece, Fox Games and then discuss the design process. They then use clay to create imaginative dioramas,...
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Storytelling
Why are some people such good story tellers? Help youngsters demonstrate the art of storytelling. They start off by listening to a story and sharing what they noticed about the storytelling that made it exciting. Then, they study a story...
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Gauging Beijing
Students examine the responsibilites of country's chosen to host the Olympics. After reading an article, they discuss how China is preparing for the 2008 Summer Games. They focus on the country's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities...
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Follow the Directions
Students listen to a confusing poem about baseball. In this clear writing instructional activity, students write a set of directions for a game. Students rewrite their directions until they are clearly understood. Students make a game...
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Is That How it Happened?
Younsters are exposed to classic stories of Arkansas Folklore including The Arkansas Traveller, and Davy Crockett. They discuss if the stories they hear are examples of folklore, or some other kind of story. Then, each puil is required...
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Lots of Lines
Students see that artists make many different kinds of lines. They discuss how artists use line to show ideas such as motion, mood, or emphasis. They geet a "scribble" to transform into a picture using Colorific markers or erasable crayons.
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Forms in Architecture
Students explore shapes and forms in architecture. This activity also introduce students to the concepts of form and function in architecture. They take an architectural tour (on foot or with visuals) to identify forms and shapes.
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Post It!
Students create agricultural posters about an agricultural topic of their choice. In this agriculture lesson plan, students positively critique each other's posters.
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Designing Future Houses
Pupils discuss houses of the future and imagine future house designs. They create a floor plan, architectural drawing, and write a short description about their future house.
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The Teen Scene
Students explore the methods used by teen magazines to attract a variety of teenagers. They evaluate existing magazines and in small groups, students create their own magazine that is geared toward specific teen demographics.
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Watercolor Landscapes
Pupils explore watercolor paints as a medium for landscape paintings. They use watercolor paints to create landscape paintings.
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City Streets in One-Point Perspective
Learners examine the basics of drawing forms in one-point perspective, and linear perspective. They transform their drawings into city scenes using one-point perspective.
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The Perfect President
Students advertise for the perfect president. In this presidential duties activity, students determine the attributes that the ideal president should have and then write job descriptions for the role.
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Design a House
Students explore the basics of house design and compare examples of architecture from different times and places. The influence of site, materials, function, form and style are probed as their own floor plans are created.