Ever wonder how those neat painting applications work? Completing this coding activity will give you some insight. First, starting with a simple function that draws a small circle as the mouse moves around the screen, adjust the function...

Students create a bar graph on the computer using given information from the teacher. They create a bar graph using their own information chart (they need to create one on separate paper first). They utilize Microsoft Excel for this lesson.

Students increase their computer graphics skills and trace and paint botanicals from digitals photographs they take of prairie plants using computer-aided artistic techniques.

Your young coding students will love the result of this programming activity and will be amazed at what they can make the computer do. Using objects and their properties, they will create a paint brush that will redraw an object across...

Young scholars investigate measurement conversions using a visual demonstration.  In this mathematics conversions lesson, students create an image of a plastic gallon jug using a paint software program.  Young scholars utilize...

Students explore recognizing, counting and sequencing numbers 1-10. In this primary math introduction lesson, students participate in 6 computer sessions that integrate short films, music and drawing in order to bring beginning math...

Students utilize art analysis skills by examining the work of Henri Matisse. In this painting instructional activity, students examine L'Atelier Rouge by Henri Matisse and identify the objects in the room and colors used. Students create...

Young scholars finish several squiggles. In this Microsoft Paint lesson, students use the pen tool to draw squiggle lines and then take turn adding to one another's squiggles to create something.

Students become familiar with the workings of Windows 3.11 especially Program Manager, File Manager, and MS DOS Prompt. They open, develop, save, and copy a text file within the windows environment. They become familiar with Netscape and...

When you paint you almost always use color. Budding artists explore the color wheel, color vocabulary, and painting techniques. They discuss and practice mixing colors, then paint a color wheel for personal reference.

Using the computer and the Paint program, Students explore the different tools available in the paint program, and then create a picture showing two sets of pictures and an equation.

Learners explore computers. They manipulate tools within a "draw" or "paint" program. Students correctly compose an advertisement for an imaginary product. They compose an advertisement for an imaginary product.

Using a digital camera, Photoshop, and a desktop paint program, learners will explore perspective techniques. They apply perspective techniques to develop depth illusions within a scene. The lesson employs both traditional art and...

Prepare kids for Easter egg decorating with a social skills story that explains the process and details appropriate behavior for the activity.

Fourth graders hone their computer skills through practice with Adobe Photoshop. They choose a famous portrait painting, working on seamless integration of their own face into the picture. They work on the skills of using filters,...

Students practice colors. In this color instructional activity, students read several books that review the names of colors. They go on the computer to do an Internet scavenger hunt where they identify the colors of the online...

Eighth graders, in a computer lab, transform their images into a full face using the paint & draw tools.

Students use the Hickory Dickory Dock nursery rhyme to learn about rhyme, telling time, and preposition use. For this nursery rhyme lesson, students read the nursery rhyme daily and complete a Mother Goose quiz. Students sequence the...

Students listen to a story and chime whenever they hear rhyming word pairs. Students generate other rhyming words that rhyme with each pair from the story. Students draw and/or paint illustrations to go along with a rhyming song given....

Students review and reproduce an article of Elizabethan styled clothing as a part of an analysis of Shakespeare's Macbeth.  In this Elizabethan art lesson, students discuss the fashion of the Elizabethan era and research it online....

Students create and move pictures to illustrate the various combinations for the number 5. In this number 5 lesson, students use the stamp function and paint tools to create a number sentence for all possible combinations of the number 5.

Students explore geometric shapes. In this math lesson, students identify geometric and non-geometric shapes using the computer. Students research geometric shapes in art and architecture.

Students are able to use computers and answer questions about the years 2000-2004. They click on the globe at the end for the answers. Students can use this opportunity to delve into the topics in more detail and give more speaking...

Greed is the theme of the West African folktale, Anansi Goes to Lunch and this multidisciplinary collection of lessons. First, scholars listen to a read aloud and participate in a grand conversation about the book's key details and...