Second graders create hearts using stencils, pastels, construction paper, and tracing and cutting techniques in this Art lesson for the 2nd grade classroom. Emphasis is placed on the concept of repeating patterns. An ideal lesson for...

Learners create rice and glue holiday wreaths in this Art lesson ideal for the 1st or 2nd grade. The lesson can be adapted for older or younger students and includes an ingredient list and step-by-step directions for siccessful...

Students create paper hearts. In this art lesson, students brush vinegar on white paper and cover the paper with red heart tissue paper. When the vinegar dries red heart prints are left because the tissue paper falls off.

Seventh graders explore how to spice up their work using vivid words and images. Afte a lecture/demo, 7th graders try their hand at writing poetry using a lot of adjectives and vivid verbs.

Students make butterflies out of paint and an open hand. In this art lesson, students press an open hand with paint on paper spreading the fingers to represent wings.

Students use works of art to explore how to paint a still-life.

Students use fabric they have created in their quilts. Unlike dyeing and marbling, hand-painting fabric with Setacolor textile paints is not messy, not toxic, and the serendipitous results make every student feel like an artist!

Students create "sticky hearts" in this early elementary instructional activity that explores the use of different media in works of art. The instructional activity suggests using white posterboard, constructions paper, corn syrup, food...

Students explore writing a cinquain. Students engage in a pantomime experience. They observe and describe bubbles. Students compose a cinquain and illustrate their work with bubble art.

Students recognize and describe the sewn beading style of the Ojibwa tribe that was influenced by seventeenth-century French floral embroidery and fabric prints imported by the French traders. They adapt and recreate an Ojibwa bead motif.

Learners learn and review basic geometric terms, definitions, and theory, including regular polygons, lines, angles, points, etc. They make a tessellating stamp and create a repeating work of art.

Students create a "handprint rainbow" to show that together people can make beautiful things. In this character education lesson plan, students are read the book, "God's Dream," and discuss the emotions of themselves and the characters....

Students create and decorate paper mache maracas.

Students use coffee filters, pipe cleaners and markers to create butterflies.

For this grammar worksheet, students circle the subjects in twenty-five sentences and then write an S in the blank provided if the subject is singular and a P if the subject is plural.

In this grammar activity, students review and discuss how to correctly use indefinite and definite articles. Students fill in forty-six blanks with appropriate articles.

In this grammar worksheet, students change fifteen present tense verbs into past tense verbs. Students then place the verb in ten sentences in the past tense to make each one grammatically correct.

In this grammar worksheet, students underline the correct verb in twenty sentences that makes each one grammatically correct.

In this grammar instructional activity, students review how to recognize verbs in sentences and then find and circle the verbs in twenty sentences.

In this grammar worksheet, students read about clauses and conjunctions. Students read about the different kinds of clauses, such as dependent and independent.

Students create a print using a mixture of Carborundum grits of different textures that are mixed with an adhesive and brushed onto a plate. The plate is then inked and wiped like an intaglio plate or it can be printed in relief.

Students study dotted eighth/sixteenth note rhythm pattern using percussion instruments and alternating from "corral to corral" in groups of 4-6. They play the pattern while listening to selected American western theme songs.

Students participate in a variety of activities surrounding a thematic unit on apples and Johnny Appleseed.

Learners analyze photographic images and use cameras to document their own life.  In this analyzing photography instructional activity, students apply formal analysis techniques to images, then create a documentary of photographic...