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Kolam: A Living Art of South Asia

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers will read the short story "Meenakshi's Magic Hands" by Santhini Govindan and view a slide show of photo images interspersed with the text to learn of the art form of Kolam. Students read and reflect upon a nonfiction...
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Calder's Balancing Acts

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students learn the vocabulary of contemporary sculpture and distinguish between abstract and realistic sculpture, mobile and stabile, biomorphic and geometric. They write equations using Calder's mobiles
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Art of the Inca

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine the early civilizations of Central and South America. After examining hand-crafted objects, they discuss the craftsmanship of the Inca and how they used geometric shapes and symbols in their art. They draft a design...
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Attic Red-Figure Kylix

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze floral and geometric design. For this art design lesson, students create a circular design art using floral, geometric, or anatomical designs. Students critique their designs as a group and read the background...
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The Official Quilt of Alabama- The Pine Burr Quilt

For Students 8th - 10th
In this quilting worksheet, students follow the directions to re-create the official quilt of Alabama, The Pine Burr Quilt. They use geometric shapes and stitching directions to make quilt squares.
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Shape Puzzle-- Car

For Students K - 1st
In this shape worksheet, students cut out 12 basic geometric shapes with patterns provided. Using these pieces, students look at a picture of a car and duplicate this design.
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Drawing Mirror Images

For Students 4th - 5th
In this mirror images worksheet, students solve 4 problems in which mirror image patterns are identified and mirror images of geometric figures are drawn. This page is intended to be an online activity, but can be completed on paper.
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Math is Beautiful: Tessellation

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students examine patterning in Chinese and Japanese artwork prior to creating their own tessellations using styrofoam plates in this creative cross-curricular lesson for upper-elementary/middle level classrooms.
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Creating Adinkra Symbols

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover examples of adinkra cloth. They explain the history of the symbols themselves. They create a larger pattern using geometric symbols. They discover how the symbols can be used to communicate with one another.
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Coconut-Shell Cup

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research and discuss the social ritual of drinking chocolate in viceregal Mexico. They explain its cultural and historical and geographical roots. Students create their own "drinking" vessel from papier-mache. They experiment...
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Arti'stick Mobile

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students examine works of stained glass in one dimensional art form then adapt it a three dimensional transparent mobile. They create their mobile using patterns of shapes and simple images from computer line art, printed art books or...
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Cultural Cups

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars create their own drinking vessel from papier-m??ch??. They experiment with different shapes for drinking vessels and different patterns for them.
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Exploring the History of Canyon de Chelly: Pottery

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils study the tradional Native American methods of making pottery. They examine the patterns used and design their own pattern that they will use as they make their own pottery utilizing the clay from the surrounding environment.
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Mondrian, Math, and Amazing Colors

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study geometric shapes, lines, and the primary colors as they create Mondrian-like art prints.
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Melted Paintings

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Another in the amazing series of lesson plans which use unique mediums! Students execute artwork on a non-traditional painting surface. They theorize what happen to their artwork if it is exposed to heat, then see what happens when they...
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Clay Tile: Art Deco Style

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils analyze and classify sets of pictures using a mathematical classification system and create original works of Art Deco tiles using this new knowledge and four types of symmetry.
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Mondrian: Rectangles, Squares, & Balance, Oh My!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate the art of Piet Mondrian. They conduct Internet research, discuss Mondrian's artwork, play a computer game, and create an original work of art using Appleworks 6.
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Kuba African Cloth

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students identify four different African cloth design styles and associate them with the cultures examined in this lesson plan. The lesson plan also includes a creative project where each student creates their own cloth design.
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Weaving with Seed Beads on a Bead Loom

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students describe, and try, the process of weaving and demonstrate how Native Americans and others wove beads on a loom to create long, narrow bands for hair and bracelets.
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The Geometry of Indigenous Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the concepts of symmetry, rotations, reflections, translation, dialations, and tessellations and apply them to indigenous art. They also do Internet research and create artwork (painting, pottery, computer graphic design).
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African Ceremonial Masks

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine and discuss the purposes and traditions of African ceremonial masks. They design and create African ceremonial masks using various materials.
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Textured Pottery using Self-Hardening Clay and Multicultural Design

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Young scholars create textured pottery. In this multicultural arts lesson, students follow step-by-step directions to create textured pottery with a multicultural design out of self-hardening clay.
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Kente Cloths

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create examples of Kente cloths using paper, markers, and paints in this multi-cultural Art instructional activity for the second grade. The two part instructional activity includes an introduction of Kente Cloth designs...
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Introduction To Melodic Notation: Sol-Mi

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discover the use of melody in music and how it relates to simple songs and music notation. Students sing and move throughout this lesson. Emphasis is placed upon group and individual practice interpreting musical melodies.

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