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PBS

Pbs: Language Arts: Lesson Plans: Language Arts: Shakespeare's Sonnets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this lesson is to help students cope with unfamiliar language in Shakespeare's sonnets and to help them understand and appreciate both what he says and how he says it.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Art Through Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that use the book "Anna's Art Adventure" by Bjorn Sortland to teach students to write about art descriptively. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used...
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Other

National Museum of Wildlife Art: Online Programs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Take a virtual field trip and use these lessons while exploring wildlife art collections online. Utilize these lessons to integrate art with writing, problem solving, and other activities that may already be taking place in your classroom.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African Art: Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the crafts that the African American culture exported from native African lands, basketry and cultivation of rice. With the lessons provided in the downloadable document, students will weave together history, geography, social...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Discovering Similarities Between Writing and Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Contains plans for three 50-minute lessons that ask students to use the writing process to write about a piece of visual art. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 27: The Faust Theme

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Faust theme, that of risking eternal damnation by selling one's soul to the devil in exchange for magical powers, can be found in virtually every genre of music as well as in literature and the visual arts. Examples utilizing this...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 44: Compositional Techniques

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young music students rarely see or, better still, hear a connection between the different types of scales, modes, intervals and other compositional techniques such as meter, tonality, and form used in both traditional 'Art' music and...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Remixes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will examine works of art that involve appropriated images and then create their own works of art appropriating text, music, or images of their choice. Students will follow up with a discussion of how appropriation can become an...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Distorting Madonna in Medieval Art

For Students 9th - 10th
After Rome was destroyed, people were wary of attachment to physical beauty. As Christianity gained traction, Romans instead began to focus on the metaphysical beauty of virtue, and art began to follow suit. James Earle discusses how...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Monet's Waterscapes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn the color theory and techniques that guided Claude Monet's impressionist painting and apply those techniques to the creation of their own works of art.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Coming to Terms With the Past

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will examine the work of German artist Anselm Kiefer and discuss how art might be a means of understanding and coming to terms with history. Students will follow in Kiefer's practice by creating their own works of art that...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Attn to Technology: Exploring a Fictional Technology Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Taking a critical look at our responses to technology and technological advancement is the intent of this ReadWriteThink lesson, designed for 3 50-minute classes. Includes student survey, handouts, interactive, and evaluation rubric.
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Other

Global Art: Framed Tin Plate

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Add this art idea to your list of multicultural activities. Inspired by the Mexican tradition of tin punching this lesson gives some ideas for good cheap tin alternatives.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Art Class, Assessment Variation

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders knowledge of proportional relationships is assessed in this lesson using the mixtures of paint.
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Yale University

Yale: Popular Mexican Arts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit on Mexican art comes with four lesson plans, art activities, a bibliography, video suggestions, and web links.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Three Ways to Make a Scene

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will analyze landscapes by three artists. After learning about the horizon line, they will create their own painted and collaged landscapes inspired by one of the artists.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Adjective Lesson Plans

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
This article discusses spicing up your lesson plans for teaching adjectives with adjective worksheets, games, and adjective lists all of which can be located online. It suggests the use of Art and Music in your classroom to provide...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: What a Character!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students analyze how a character's personality traits, actions, and motives influence the plot of a story. Students also learn how storytellers use their face, body, and voice, as well as the five senses, to enhance the...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Apollo Pursuing Daphne

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students will be introduced to the Greek myth of Apollo and Daphne by critically analyzing the painting Apollo Pursuing Daphne by Tiepolo. They will then design a coat of arms with symbols that best represent their personality and...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Browse and Search Resources

For Students K - 1st Standards
This site shares a collection of expert and peer-vetted teacher resources that are searchable for teachers and students. Searching can be achieved via a subject, grade, audience, and/or type. Curricula standards for the following subjets...
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PBS

Art21: Maya Lin

For Students 9th - 10th
A great site by PBS that features a biography on the artist and links to art work, videos clips and interviews. On this page there are also links to lesson plans and other artist pages.
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Peabody Essex Museum

Peabody Essex Museum: Perfect Imbalance: Exploring Chinese Aesthetics

For Students 9th - 10th
An exploration of Chinese Aesthetics. Includes images and descriptions of artifacts, the history of Chinese art, and lesson plans.
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Other

Wv Department of Education: Teacher Resources for Educational Excellence (Tree)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is is a one-stop, grade-specific site highlighting WV College- and Career-Readiness Standards and resources that are essential to the classroom teacher. The resources include grade-specific lessons, professional learning, and...
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Other

Vermont Historical Society

For Students 9th - 10th
This site allows you to view exhibits from the Vermont Historical Museum collection. Click on 'Virtual vhs' for a list of their online exhibitions. The teaching resources section includes a collection of whiteboard lessons for Promethean...

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