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Seal Drawing

For Students K - 1st
In this coloring learning exercise, students examine a black line drawing of a cartoon-style seal character. Students color the picture.
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I Know An Old Lady

For Teachers K - 1st
Have your young pupils complete a variety of activities related to the story "I Know an Old Lady." They act-out the story using puppets, visit the illustrator's website, discuss his cartoon drawings for the book, and generate a list of...
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The Art of Motion

For Students 8th - 9th
In this motion instructional activity, students write 2 or 3 techniques for showing motion in cartoons. Students also draw 3 cartoon panels of 2 automobiles on a highway, one moving at a constant speed and the other one accelerating.
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Rebels Or Resisters?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers participate in a mock trial on the Whiskey Rebellion that took place in the state of Pennsylvania in 1794. They analyze the perspectives presented by both sides to determine whether the Whiskey "rebels" were guilty of...
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Emphasizing Scale When Creating a Site-Specific Work of Art

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students study art by Matthew Ritchie. Students view pictures of the artist and discuss art that is created specifically for a designated area. Students create pen and ink drawings on letter size paper. Using an overhead, students...
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Manga and Me

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Upper elementary and middle school learners study Manga cartooning and create a Japanese character based on their own features and personalities. This style of cartooning is easily-accessible for most students. With a little practice,...
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Animation Pre-Production

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Does your class love reading cartoons? Use their talents and interests to examine the process of writing a story they wish to tell through a cartoon. They develop the beginning, middle, and end of a story based on their original...
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Was it Fair for the Elephant's Child?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars use literature to explore ideas of justice. They discuss what makes something fair or unfair. They draw and explain cartoons that tell the story.
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Spelling Activities

For Students 2nd - 4th
Use this list of spelling activities all year long to help your class spell each week's list of words! This list provides 12 different ways for class members to practice their spelling. Learners identify vowels, consonants, synonyms, and...
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Making words with I, O and U

For Students K - 1st
Here is a worksheet in which young children have to complete the words provided by using the letter i, o, or u. There are eight cartoon drawings that depict each of the words, so figuring out what the word should sound like should be...
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Alphardy

For Teachers K - 1st
Completing this PowerPoint should enable young readers to better-associate the sounds that go with each of the 26 letters of the alphabet. Each slide has the letter with a cartoon drawing to help with recognition of the beginning sound....
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Teach with Movies

Teaching Students to Write a Narrative

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Encourage narrative writing with a clever exercise. Class members watch episodes from movies and describe what happened to a character, including details about the setting, plot, and characters. Writers then craft a narrative about a...
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Gulliver’s Travels

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Gulliver's Travels tells the story of a man who goes on voyages and encounters strange people. A unit plan introduces readers to the classic text, as well as excerpts from other examples of sarcasm and satire, such as "A Modest Proposal"...
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Simple Machines, Odd Machine

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils create a Rube Goldberg type cartoon and research an invention.  In this art inspired lesson students create their own cartoon and research inventions on the Internet. 
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Cartoon Drawing Lesson: Cardio

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this multiplication practice instructional activity, students solve multiplication problems and then follow the steps to finish a drawing that has already been started.
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ART- LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLS

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discuss how color construct meaning in art. They will demonstrate a technical knowledge and creative use of formal elements and principals of design. Students then discuss the way their selection of color contributed to their work.
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Cartoon Creation

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create four to six illustrations that produce sequential movement and change when rapidly flipped through with a thumb. Students demonstrate motion and change are shown in a series of illustrations by sharing original...
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Smart Art

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners examine and practice the art of political cartoon-making by focusing on how and why they are so effective in making a political point.
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Animated Cartoons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils draw ten frames for a cartoon and then use iMovie to create an animated movie in this technology-based art lesson. Transitions and audio tracks can be added to enhance final products.
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Art & Drama for Middle Grades

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars define humor and consider how people have different senses of humor and therefore different ideas of what is funny. They explore improvisation, cartooning, comics, body language and storytelling as the means to express humor.
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Visual Art: Romare Bearden

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars examine the art of Romare Bearden, focusing on a stained-glass window designed for a New York City elevated railway station. they visit the site and discuss the art after viewing it from various perspectives. Based on...
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Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary

B. Franklin, Printer and the Public Eye

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore U.S. history by researching famous Americans. In this Benjamin Franklin lesson plan, students read portions of a biography about Franklin and identify his position within U.S. politics and as a leader in the battle for...
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Pocahontas: One Foot in Two Worlds

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students draw upon the visual data presented in photographs, paintings, cartoons, and architectural drawings in order to clarify, illustrate, or elaborate upon information presented in the historical narrative.
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Animation Flip Books

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Learners investigate examples of animation made from a flipbook technique in order to learn how to create their own flipbook and to learn how this process looks like an animated cartoon. In this animation instructional activity, students...