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Images and Indirection
Students closely analyze a true event or moments associated with their life, then present the scene, and personal emotions and/or actions generated by that incident in a free verse poem. They learn the difference between words defined...
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What's Your Impression?
Learners paint landscapes. In this Impressionism lesson, students explore the history behind the Impressionist Movement in art and paint their own impressionist piece inspired by a nearby landscape.
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Line: a Geometric Exercise
Students study the different types of lines and create a drawing demonstrating what they learned.
New Class Museum
Lesson: Elizabeth Peyton: Portraits: Androgyny in Contemporary Culture
Portraiture, artistic expression, romanticism, and androgyny are discussed in a thought-provoking lesson. Upper graders first discuss and examine the history of portraiture and the elements common to the Romantic style. Then they turn...
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Figurative Language
What is figurative language, and why do we use it? Introduce your high schoolers to some examples and discuss the importance of including this element in your writing. After studying a text and searching for examples, writers will...
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Reading Comprehension 4: Level 7
Make an impression with a reading comprehension assessment based on Claude Monet. After reading a short biographical paragraph about the famous French painter, readers demonstrate their comprehension skills by drawing inferences,...
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Sculpture: Statues, Monuments, and More
Students explore some of the components of sculpture through a variety of artists and their artwork. The six lessons of this unit utilize the sculptures experienced when students were studying American history and the Native Americans.
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Hispanic Arts and Culture Unit: Visual Arts, Dance, and Music
Students learn about Latin American dance and rhythm in different forms and participate in dancing. In this Latin American lesson plan, students also analyze Latin American paintings.
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The Sun Sets Everywhere
Eighth graders identify and explain the connections between new ideas and information and their previous beliefs, values, and experiences. They understand that certain themes are relevant to their lives. They realize the harm of clicks...
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Me and My Logo
Students design their own emblem. For this introduction lesson, students get to know one another by designing an emblem that combines symbols that represent themselves. They express themselves to their classmates.
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Narrative Cartoons
Students create a narrative cartoon. In this narrative lesson plan, students use a Peace Corp website to collect information and photographs that they add captions to and use to create their own narrative cartoons.
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Georgia O¿¿¿Keeffe¿¿¿s floral paintings
Young scholars discuss the differences between realistic and abstract art by focusing on Georgia O'Keeffe's work The lesson can be delivered in either a simplistic or more complex way depending upon the grade level.
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4 Different Ways to View Our City
Seventh graders make magnificent abstract paintings based upon their realistic photographs.
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Still Life
Young scholars compose a three-dimensional still life composition in a shoe box, sketch portions of their work and then design a painting based on the finished box. They complete and critique their paintings.
US Institute of Peace
Taking a Step Toward Peacebuilding
What can someone do to increase the peace? Pupils take small steps toward a big peacebuilding role in the final lesson in a 15-part unit. Individuals identify their roles as a peacebuilder and create a stepping stone that reflects their...
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The Writing Process
Students engage in the various steps involved in the writing process. The lesson plan is written as a guide for the teacher to write more in depth lesson plans for specific activities. This is a good model plan to follow.
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Miriam Schapiro Action Figures Collage
Students create a background with a marbling technique. They plan and create a figure from assorted papers, mixing solids and patterns. Students glue the figure to the background, and embellish negative space with glitter.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Les Miserables Study Help Essay Questions
In this literature worksheet, students respond to 20 short answer and essay questions about Hugo's Les Miserables. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the selection at the bottom of the page.
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Land Ho! Cole Vs. Van Gogh
Students compare and contrast the landscape works of Thomas Cole and Vincent Van Gogh. In this landscapes lesson, students understand vocabulary related to artworks. Students compare and contrast the artists work through a Venn diagram....
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Town Mouse/ Country Mouse
Students recognize the difference between the city and the country. In this City Mouse, Country Mouse lesson, students listen to a story and describe and map differences between the city and the country. Students understand that people...
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Family Portraits
Students view and discuss realistic family portraits and respond to them by creating abstract art work, form and draw imaginative still life, prepare story about their family history or history of family in community, and write...
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Circular "Mandala"
Students create a nonobjective design from a magazine photo (or personal photograph) using a view finder. By using colored pencils the drawing use layers to recreate the colors in the magazine picture.
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Poultry in Motion (The Little Red Hen Meets Chicken Little)
Students read stories and use reading and writing skills to sequence, compare and contrast, predict, and identify parts of a story. Six lessons on one page.
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Landscapes
Learners explore landforms and landscapes. They demonstrate an appreciation for and examine how to recognize the attributes of landforms and landscapes. Students create a landscape and reflect on their painting.