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Homophone Graphics
Fifth graders create homophones in a group and share them with the class. In this language arts instructional activity, 5th graders draw a homophone set. Additionally, students create a sentence using the homophone.
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Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One...
Explore language arts by reading two similar stories in order to compare and contrast them in class. Young readers read two Aunt Isabel books, by Kate Duke, and discuss the main characters, plot, and setting. They complete a graphic...
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Trey and Dave go to Africa: Music
Trey from Phish and Dave from the Dave Mathews Band took a trip to Africa to explore music, culture, and history. Your class watches this episode from VH1's Music Studio to understand how African culture and music have influenced modern...
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Leaf Prints
Creating art from nature teaches learners how to appreciate the world around them while allowing them to practice artistic techniques. After observing and choosing fall leaves from outside, they create leaf prints. They press the painted...
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Writing: Teacher Appreciation Week
Learners celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week by writing letters to former teachers. They brainstorm ideas and memories to include in their letters.
they include special greetings and random thoughts of kindness.
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Happy Accidents Painting
A person can see a lot of different things when he looks at the amorphous clouds. The same is true when you let your watercolor paints do as they please. Little artists create haphazard art with watercolors, then use ink or marker to...
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Folk Art Weather Vane
Students create replicas of Folk Art Weather Vanes using farm animal outlines, cardboard or wood, paints, and staining techniques. Emphasis is placed on the appreciation of folk art, the history of the weather vane, and creativity.
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Poetry Alive! Interpreting Poetry Using Digital Images
Young scholars investigate poetry by incorporating images into the words of a poem. In this language arts lesson, students discuss poetry writing devices and self expression with their classmates. Young scholars create a film...
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Ceramics - African African American Folk Art
Students gain appreciation and knowledge of art history, specifically the African American contributions to folk art made in the South Carolina region.
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Arts & Entertainment/Production Marketing
Learners demonstrate a comprehension and a tasteful appreciation of the creative and performing arts. They seek, experiments, and shares reactions of different forms of art. Students analyze and reflect on others' work. They recognize...
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Picasso's "The Dog"
Students draw a dog. In this drawing lesson, students discover how to tap into their right brain dominance by sketching a picture upside down. Students draw a picture resembling Picasso's "The Dog".
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Picasso's "The Butterfly"
Students draw a butterfly. In this drawing lesson, students explore a drawing upside down. Students sketch a butterfly while the image is reversed to tap into their right brain dominance.
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Matisse's "La Pompadour"
Students sketch a picture. In this drawing lesson plan, students sketch Matisse's "La Pompadour". In an attempt to tap into their artistic side, students turn the picture upside down to sketch.
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Miraculous Milagros
Learners investigate the use of Milagro charms in different cultures. They conduct research using a variety of resources. Students create a shape that is meaningful to them and then copy the charm of magic and explain its significance to...
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Night Along the Water
Students visualize themselves standing by the sea or a river at night as part of a prewriting experience to generate ideas. They paint their impressions of night near the water. Afterward, they write poetry based on ideas sparked by...
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Parisian Picnic
Students investigate the artwork and life of Paul Cezanne with the help of resources to find information about the Impressionist movement. They sketch a picnic drawing as a copy of Cezanne or use the principles to create an original idea.
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Scrolling Along
Young scholars summarize the important parts of a story, identify the characters, and decide how to picture several scenes that describe the setting and action. They graphically represent the important elements of the story on a fabric...
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Smile For Leonardo
Students engage in a lesson that focuses upon the artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci. They are introduced to a biographical sketch of the artist with the guidance of the teacher. Students recall an emotional experience and think of the feeling...
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Turning Everyday Objects Into Art
Students are introduced to the art of assemblage - which is the process of taking ready-made materials, and ordinary objects and using them to create sculptures. They create a self-portrait by assembling and joining found objects in a...
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Writing to See
Learners write descriptively and creatively after looking carefully at a work of art.
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The Civil War in Art and Literature
Pupils examine art related to the Civil War. They participate in activities that allow them to write poetry and drawings. They create their own journal and collect their work in a binder.
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Common Denominators between Primitive Art, Fine Art, Folk Art, Children's Art
Students view and create art in several styles. They view African Masks, Picasso's portraits and self-portraits. They compare the two, then create a self portrait. In the second lesson, they view landscape paintings by folk artists....
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The Art of Romare Bearden
Students are introduced to the art of Romare Bearden. Using a packet, they discover Bearden's theme of family and African-American history in his art. After viewing specific examples of his artwork, they identify the ways in which he...
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Combining Words with Art
Third graders make an accordion-fold book, review the vocabulary of visual art and are introduced to calligraphy. They plan a story using a sequence of words and sentences.
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