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CD Cover Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create CD covers using computer generated pictures, self-drawn depictions, or collages. They read and analyze books, and write one sentence book reports to be included with the CD covers.
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Haring Inspired CD Covers

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students create CD covers from their music-inspired drawing sessions. They compare what they drew while listening to classical, punk and rap music. They scan their drawings into Adobe Photoshop and design their cover.
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Designing a CD Cover

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders design a CD cover and compare and contrast traditional and drawing methods with the use of AppleWorks and Photoshop software. They create a professional design layout using AppleWorks, and present their design in the form...
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Erase-a-Space CD Case

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students take inventory of their growing CD collection. They design personalized CD covers to facilitate organization of their homework and hobby files. Afterward, they explain the significance of the case they designed.
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Painters as Musicians-CD Cover Design

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create CD cover art to project the image of the artist or what those artists might sing about.
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CDs: Creating Direction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students articulate a direction about prejudice through text and images via a CD album cover. In this prejudice instructional activity, students view images for prejudice from various sources. Students brainstorm words that contribute to...
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CD Case Picture Frame

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use a CD case, foam tiles, and a picture of themselves to make a picture frame. In this picture frame lesson plan, students can use a picture of themselves or a drawing.
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C.D. Cover

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students use computers to create CD covers for their music groups. They search online for images they associate with their local reality, practice manipulating them in photo-editing program, measure size of compact disc case, and create...
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Perspective and Leonardo’s “Perspectograph”

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Filippo Brunelleschi's invention of linear perspective during the Renaissance was further developed by his apprentice, a young artist named Leonardo da Vinci. Now modern artists can give da Vinci's famous perspectograph a try with a...
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Animals Galore

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
A well-designed lesson plan which covers the characteristics of the animals found in the six animal groups is here for your young biologists. In it, learners divide up into six groups; the amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds, fish, and...
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Puttin' On the Hits

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore "summer songs." They compose a list of songs that they would put on a summer CD and write an essay that explains the images they would choose for the cover for this CD. They also create collages that represent their...
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Boosting Rap's Rep

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners consider the negative image that some have of rap and hip-hop music through discussion and reading an opinion piece from The New York Times. They create CD cover artwork reflecting these messages.
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Wherever We Go, There They Are!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The central video for this lesson is not available through the included resource link. However, the activity that simulates the passing of a virus through a population is impacting and the other resource links are invaluable. Use this...
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Cover the Music

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore U.S. history by listening to musical pieces in class. In this Civil War era instructional activity, students discuss the types of musical instruments that were available to soldiers during the war and the themes of their...
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So Much Can Happen in a Night!

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore Shakespearean comedy. They read and discuss A Midsummer Night's Dream and create a soundtrack, complete with CD cover, for the play.
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A Walk Through History

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders construct a multi-media CD-ROM using cross-platform Hyper Studio software. They identify a person in history to research for their report. In order to broaden their horizons, 5th graders are encouraged to investigate...
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The Alphabet

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students discover the letters of the alphabet by participating in a game.  In this phonics lesson, students create books about themselves using their favorite toys and pets.  Students utilize a computer program called Mouse In the House...
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Computer Multimedia and Animation Technology: Video Capture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore multimedia and animation technology. They create an autobiographical film of themselves and an album cover for their CD case. They watch a video and take notes to discover the five camera placements in their...
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Songs of Unrest - Lesson 4

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils identify popular songs from 1968 and make connections with the year's current events. They pretend that they are producing a new CD. The CD includes four songs that comment on today's social issues. They write the liner notes.
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Visual Messages: Creating a Photomontage

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create a photomontage. In this lesson on photography as a means of conveying emotion, students use images gathered from the Internet to create a photomontage comparing how water is used in Africa and the U.S.
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Chemistry E3 Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders perform a series of experiment to investigate heat transfer and phase changes. In this physical science lesson, 9th graders identify and calculate the different subatomic particles. They explain the importance of scientific...
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Making It Personal: Gender And Identity in Art

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study the role of gender in art. They examine aspects of personal identity. They assess and utilize the properties of a variety of art media and their ability to convey messages and meaning.
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Rhythm and Rhyme

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Youngsters listen to poetry and music to understand that words are made of sounds.  In this rhythm and rhyme lesson, students create songbooks of healthy eating songs. They will also act out pantomimes and dance to the music. Each...
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A New Life, A New Home

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use photographs to tell the story of immigrants. They use the Internet to help them research immigration.

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