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Mountain Vista

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students participate in a role play activity in which they play an American pioneer moving west. During the role play, they select an occupation and a town to live in. In groups, they use a map to determine the best route to arrive to...
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Looking and Learning in the Art Museum

For Teachers K - 5th
Have you just visited an art museum? Or can you create a gallery in your classroom to visit? Pupils create an original drawing that reinforces what was learned in a visit to the art museum. They will view original art work and verbally...
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Pixel Drawings

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Middle and high schoolers re-create a magazine photo or other picture and make it into a drawing using pixels. This fun art project should be a hit with your charges! The materials needed to implement the instructional activity should be...
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Homophone Graphics

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create homophones in a group and share them with the class. In this language arts lesson, 5th graders draw a homophone set. Additionally, students create a sentence using the homophone.
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Counting Objects

For Students Pre-K - 1st
What an easy way to practice counting and comparing numbers! Learners examine four sets of drawings, each with two types of objects pictured. They count each object, writing the number below. Then, they color in the item with fewer...
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Drawing Movement

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students analyze visual arts by creating drawings in their classroom. In this art analysis lesson, students identify the paintings of Keith Haring by researching the web. Students utilize paper and oil pastels to create paintings based...
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Building an Underwater Habitat

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate underwater habitats. For this underwater habitat lesson, students study Aquarius and design their own underwater habitat that can sustain life. Students work in groups and present their habitats to the class....
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Expressing Emotions through Art Lesson 2—Everybody Needs Somebody

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars investigate drawings of couples. In this art history lesson plan, students examine the techniques artists use to convey emotions such as caring, love, and togetherness. Young scholars utilize these techniques to create...
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Techno Letters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the alphabet by completing a computer activity. In this letter identification lesson, students utilize Kid Pix to create artwork based upon each letter of the alphabet. Students utilize drawings, type and animation to...
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Materials and Process

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the variety of materials an artist uses when drawing and consider the impact of the material choice. In this art analysis lesson, students consider the different materials used to make various drawings. Students compare...
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Flexible Thinking - Squiggle Art

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners develop their creative abilities. In this creative thinking lesson, students examine different shapes and drawings and discuss what it makes them think of. Learners create self confidence by thinking together in groups.
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Constructions, Sketches, and Drawings

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of constructions, sketches, and drawings. In this constructions, sketches, and drawings lesson plan, students discuss the differences between constructions, sketches, and drawings through teacher led...
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Vegetable Faces: A Guiseppe Archimboldo Portrait Study

For Teachers K
Students create drawings of vegetable faces.In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify various vegetables, which they use as models to create drawings. Students experiment with the vegetable drawings by adding faces to their...
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Using Sketchbooks in Primary Schools

For Students 2nd - 6th
In this sketchbook instructional activity, students design a book to keep their artistic creations in. Students can use the book to show the progression of their skills and abilities as an artist. It also can be used to collect samples...
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Listen, Observe, And Read a Biography on Who Shaped America?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research a person from American history who helped shape the nation. They investigate the person's life from childhood through their adult accomplishments and use the information to publish a book that includes research...
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A Walk in Time

For Teachers 1st
First graders place self-portraits in chronological order from birth to present. They also are asked to imagine what they are to do in the future. Students use drawings, magazine pictures or computer software to generate their own...
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ARE YOU A TRIANGULATEER?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore about triangles and their relationship to the worlld around them. They are able to identify triangular shapes in their environment. Students are able to communicate to one another their understanding of triangles outside...
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Painters as Authors

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore artists as authors. They discuss the stories that their pictures tell. Students describe what story they think the artist is trying to tell in their pictures. Students search the Internet and choose a piece of...
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Drawing with Light

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the technique of drawing with light. Using photographs, they identify the origins, technical and stylistic developments in photography. They create their own drawings with an emphasis on light and share them...
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People at Work

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners observe people at work. They create their own drawings of those people at their jobs.
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Using Photographs and Models for Drawings

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students make drawings of their classmates in photographs.