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Thank You For the Get Well Card

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners are read books by various artists. They create activity cards or mini-books that are given to ill children in hospitals. They discover the health care system and share their experiences with afraid children.
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Italy: Festa del Grillo

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the traditions of the Festa del Grillo in Italy and its relationship to the culture of Italy. After being shown examples, they create their own cricket out of materials found in the classroom. Using 3D, they...
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When the Giant Came to Town....

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students discuss various techniques artists have to show distance. They view examples, and discuss overlapping. Students create art work based on things in a city. Students tell about their artwork in casual style conversation while...
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Reverse Glass "Painting"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the life and works of John Audubon. They compare and contrast various pieces of art and identify the purposes of stained glass. After observing his art, they create their own stained glass creation using the concepts...
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Carmen Lomas Garza

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the life and works of Carmen Lomas Garza. In groups, they research the causes and effects of the Chicano movement and view examples of her self-portraits. They identify other artists who were well known for...
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Clean Water and World Water Day

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students investigate World Water Day in relation to clean water that should be used responsibly. They create lists of ten things they use water for and compare their answers in small groups. They research a documentary for World Water...
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Plants

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify and label parts of a plant. They will construct a plant from art material and describe the purpose of each part for the plants survival. Students author a book with pictures and words or a story about a plant.
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Sounds Good To Me - Instrument Creation

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders differentiate between pitch and volume and explain how sound travels through different materials. They analyze sound waves for their basic characteristics. Students design an instrument based on the principles of sound...
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Children of the Earth and Sky

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the culture and traditions of Native Americans. After reading "Children of the Earth and Sky," students discuss the lives of Native American children in relation to their own. They create replicas of Hopi...
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Indiana Ice Investigations

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create a model of the formation of Indiana by glaciers. Working in groups with appropriate materials, they create a model documenting how glaciers moved through the land and formed the geological structure and land masses...
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Impressionism

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders conduct Internet research as well as visit museum Web sites to become acquainted with the period of Impressionism. After completing their research, they sketch ideas for a landscape painting in the Impressionist style...
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Mud Painting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners invent mud mixtures to paint with. In this mud painting lesson plan, students experiment with different mixtures to develop the perfect mud paint. Learners paint a picture.
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Vegetable Twister

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners review vegetables and their nutrient values and production. In this vegetable production worksheet, students read information about the nutrients in vegetables and how they are grown. Learners participate in a game of Twister to...
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Surface Features

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify surface features and orally express visual perception of unusually shaped objects. Students do this in groups for this instructional activity.
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Survival of the Fittest

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore plant needs and growth. In this plant science lesson, students use a cereal box to complete a plant growth graph activity.
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Dirt Box

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students make a dirt box. In this art lesson, students play in the dirt using their imaginations.
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Constellations

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate space by researching their zodiac signs.  In this space science instructional activity, 3rd graders discuss the different zodiac symbols, their star representation and where the stars are located in the sky....
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A Little Alliteration

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
For this poetry lesson plan, students listen to stories that contain alliteration. While listening to stories, student pairs make a list of words that they then use to construct "silly sentences" that contain alliteration. Each student...
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Making Sense

For Teachers K
Students use self-correcting strategies if they are stuck on a word in a simple sentence. In this reading lesson plan, students look at the covers of many books, and use the picture on the cover to help them figure out what the title...

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